So, this is what I hope will be the final compromise in my long and bloody battle against comment spam: I found a plugin for MT called mt-close2 which allows you to close off comments on entries older than a specified no. of days, and in particular categories – I am so grateful to the […]

I can’t keep wading through 300 spam comments every morning, trying to find any legit comments and deleting the bogus ones. (And I can’t keep looking at the increasingly unsavoury titles of the comments, especially not right after breakfast). So I’ve disabled comments, which I am very angry about. If you want to respond to […]

My comments are busted on certain entries (i.e. the last 5 or so) and I have absolutely no idea why, because I haven’t touched anything, I swear. I’m investigating; in the meantime, comment here instead, or just hold your breath 😉

It is with a heavy heart that I have to let you know I’ve turned on moderation for comments. This means I’ll have to manually approve comments before they can appear publicly. This is a last-ditch effort to compromise between my desire for open discussion and the ever-increasing flow of spam comments (I’m talking 200+ […]

urgh. Sometimes I feel almost as frustrated about ICTs as my students do. Overnight I’ve been hit with a wave of (i.e. nearly a hundred) spam comments. I’m thinking of closing off comments to older entries, but I don’t really like the implications of this. I know that Tom from Plastic Bag changed the names […]

I’ve just edited my xml feed so that it will provide full posts, including images and links. (And I will definitely have to stick to my plan of using only absolute links from now on). The RSS 1.0 feed is still excerpts only, so take your pick.

Just when I thought I had this blog running nicely, I awoke this morning to discover that the comment spammers have found me. This means I will probably have to wade through the anti-spam plugins, tricks and fixes soon.

The dark colours got old very quickly, so I’ve compromised between the old and the new. I’m not completely satisfied with the way the comments and trackback listing pages look, but I’ll work on it. I also need to create a sideblog, to keep the linkdumps (posts where I’m just noting something I’ve found and […]

After a few minor dramas importing from my old Blogger-powered weblog, and a few tedious hours re-categorising posts and tweaking css, here I am, all moved in and ready to blog. Feel free to pop a cork in honour of the event.