//You will need to set the following to work with your site 
var HOST = 'blog.yam.com/cassidytw'; 

function setCookie (name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) { 
var curCookie = name + "=" + escape(value) + ((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "") + ((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") + ((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") + ((secure) ? "; secure" : ""); 
document.cookie = curCookie; 
} 

function getCookie (name) { 
var prefix = name + '='; 
var c = document.cookie; 
var nullstring = ''; 
var cookieStartIndex = c.indexOf(prefix); 
if (cookieStartIndex == -1) 
return nullstring; 
var cookieEndIndex = c.indexOf(";", cookieStartIndex + prefix.length); 
if (cookieEndIndex == -1) 
cookieEndIndex = c.length; 
return unescape(c.substring(cookieStartIndex + prefix.length, cookieEndIndex)); 
}