What do you mean it’s not New Year’s yet?

I now have a working moveable type installation. Don’t, by the way, assume this mess was mt’s fault, it wasn’t, my tables were all in a hoo – whatever a hoo is – after the database move, I tried to fix it, but obviously didn’t, and in the process I think I probably made it worse. In any case, I decided I wanted a working blog soon and a working archive of past entries later, rather than the other way round. In the meantime, all the little voices and currently reading entries are available, though you can’t comment on them and you can’t search them, although I suspect it will look like you can, except you won’t get any results…

Well, you know, computers… What I really want for Christmas is a telepathic computer. One that realises that if I type _ and that makes no sense, whereas typing – would have made sense, – was probably what I was aiming for anyway.

That sort of thing.

Now to fix the menu/front page, so that y’all – whoever you are – can find this new blog…

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When one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry, the former is always the best choice.

I’ve finally succumbed. I’ve upgraded to MT 3.2. Actually, it turned out that I needn’t have waited so long seeing as they’ve changed the licencing policy so I didn’t need to purchase one after all (as long as I deleted all the other potential weblog authors in my database, but as none of the others ever need to post anything that wasn’t a big loss).

Anyway, one of the reasons I wanted to upgrade – the major reason in fact – was that the spam was getting unmanageable. So now commenters need to be authenticated in order to post. However, I can’t seem to figure out how to authenticate any of you (I click the option but no one shows up in the trusted commenters list) so for the time being I have to accept any comments before they’re published.

SO IF YOU COMMENT AND IT DOESN’T SHOW UP, DON’T TRY TO WRITE IT AGAIN, JUST WAIT A FEW HOURS, OK?

What’s with this “new” spam which just links to legitimate sites? I have just received four messages, linking to yahoo.com, microsoft.com, livejournal.com and bluesoft.co.uk.

Here’s an example:

Name: timothy ballard
Email Address: gabriel@internet.com
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/r/sq

Comments:

it was fun visiting here. wishing you a great day!

WTF? Not that I don’t appreciate the odd comment saying my site is fun, but with four different ones posted within seconds, it’s obviously spam. Is the goal to make me blacklist yahoo.com? Well, I ain’t falling for it. And I really, really, really don’t see the point. Give up already! Yes, you managed to annoy me, happy now?