~larcher

spoon.cx now lives on a new server! it’s on a Virtual Private Server with westhost.com. Looks like most of the blosxom widgets are working again (removed a few, added some other stuff .. like my recent flickr photos).

Starting to get some pictures back online in the gallery .. switched to Gallery for the new server — a VPS doesn’t give all the control of being root, so a php program was a bit easier to get working than Apache::Gallery and all its prerequisites. Still working on getting mailing lists set up for some different domains also hosted on the new account. also thinking about switching blog software again .. WordPress looks interesting, or I may switch back to MT

in other news, played some Munchkin and Escape from Elba … wheeee

Making some changes .. all the silly doodads and blinkenlightzen on the right side of the page won’t be working until I get a chance to reinstall all the perl modules and plugins they depended on. So you’ll have to go a few days without knowing my exact whereabouts or the last song I listened to Also, the wiki and picture gallery have gone on vacation.

(and human readers of this blog)
Comments are now disabled. Enjoy!

Just took a peek at the comments left on me blog since the last time I deleted all the spam (a little over a month ago), and wow .. there were over 3000 comments added to almost 800 posts (out of the total 1140 entries I’ve made).

Some stats:

• 1376 comments came from one IP address .. that’s over 40% of the total spam.
• The top 20 spammers accounted for about 85% of the crap (about 2800 comments).

I could go on and on about how much this pisses me off, but I’ve wasted enough time. agh.

So I’ve turned off comments until I have time to deal with this properly. Old comments are still there, and will be visible again someday after I’ve deleted all the pink gooey canned meat that’s now mixed in with the real comments. I know there are already several ways to fight comment spam, but I just don’t have the time right now to find one I like and make it work with my current setup. I s’pose I should’ve done this after I deleted the first round of spam.. oh, well. Meanwhile, if you have an actual comment, email me, blog it, link back here, phone me, aim me, whatever .. i’ll find it and manually add it or link back. Yeah, I’m sorry, that sucks, but I’m sick of deleting the crap. Besides, people have stopped commenting here anyway