Archive for September, 2005

Spam, spam, spam, spam.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

The main motivator for my upgrade to WP1.5 was the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting lately. Hundreds a day; thankfully, they’ve almost all been held for moderation, but it was still a pain in the proverbial to have to manually delete hundreds of comment spams every day. Wordpress 1.5 handles it much better, [...]

Toys: the update.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

In furtherance of my mission to acquire every shiny white piece of computer hardware ever, I bought an iMac a month or so ago, and I love it. I made the decision to upgrade when I realised that I was using my 12” PowerBook for everything, despite having a powerful PC sitting on my desk. [...]

Not dead, nor even sleeping.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

So, it’s been months since my last post. I wasn’t lying then; I really have been in the wars. More so, lately – the day after I wrote that post, I came down with acute allergic conjunctivits, which has since turned into chronic allergic conjunctivitis. My opthalmologist is of little help. The gist is, I [...]