Category: Meta-blogging

Well, after five years with my previous ISP, they finally pissed me off enough to overcome my basic intertia, and I switched over to Bluehost this weekend. If you’re seeing this message, then you’re already seeing my site on Bluehost. I also moved a couple of other sites, and a couple of mailing lists I run. To make a long… Read more →

After losing almost all of last night to a hot problem at workWhere “hot problem” can be read as “Mr. Thinks-He’s-A-Bloody-Genius McLaren made a really stupid, and avoidable, mistake that could have cascading impact on schedules”. I managed to find a bit of time to make some minor cosmetic changes to the site. These things have been bothering me for… Read more →

Well, since I made the changes to my anti-spam shields, I have been averaging 15-20 spams a day that get trapped by Spam Karma, which is a pretty tremendous improvement from the previous 400+ per day. In those 4 days Bad Behaviour has blocked around 400 activities, which means everything is working like it’s supposed to: those 400 activities would… Read more →

Well, after the great spamming of ’06 I thought things had settled down and I could live with the 30-50 comment spam attempts that Spam Karma 2 handles for me every day. I mean, I still have to quickly scan a long list of these blocked spam every now and then to make sure that good posts aren’t being blocked,… Read more →

I am writing this post in a Firefox window on my newly installed Ubuntu Linux machine. I had a relatively old IBM Thinkpad A21m sitting around, more-or-less unused, so I decided to test the rumours I’ve been hearing that Ubuntu is now at the “easy one step install and it just works” stage. Bear in mind that the last time… Read more →

I just want to quickly point out that there is some new stuff happening in the comments to my “Confusing The Art and the Artist” post, the “most linked to” post here so far. In particular, look for the lengthy response from John C. Wright, one of my examples in the post. His response is reasoned, and way more civil… Read more →

In the last eight hours, there have been 2404 attempts to post spam comments to this blog. Ooops, 2407. The count keeps going up, with between three and ten attempts per minute, sustained over the last eight hours. It looks like they are all generated from the same script, running on several machines. Of course my system, using both Spam… Read more →

OK, I finally bit the bullet and did the upgrade from WP1.5.3 to WP2.0.1 (It feels like I just did the upgrade to WP1.5, but it looks like that was almost exactly a year ago.) Everything seems to have gone smoothly, although I had to update a few of my plugins to make them happy. Also, my “old man”-ness is… Read more →

There may be a short break in service over the next week as I am about to enter a period of intense time commitment at work–I’m preparing materials to teach a whole team of new developers about our product, which has a pretty huge history and codebase, and then I’m teaching them. I really hate when I have to do… Read more →

OK, Boston-ness is getting in the way of content. However, in line with the whole “a year has passed thing”, I’ve set up a date reminder system in my sidebar. If you’re not reading this in RSS, you will see the next 5 upcoming things from my date list just under the calendar. Now, I need to amuse myself by… Read more →

October 26. One year since my first post here. 322 posts in that year. Still enjoying it. Read more →

Explaining the name of this blog Read more →