The flood of comment spam was getting really bad, so for a while back there I turned off commenting. But it made no difference. I didn’t really understand what was going on, although I’ve been reading a bit about splogs, which as ever are mucking things up for everyone. But I still don’t really...

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I’m being deluged with comment spam. OK, so it isn’t showing up on the site, thanks to WP’s excellent filtering. But it is annoying. And hardly anyone ever sends a genuine comment. So I’ve blocked commenting for now. I’ll restore it in a while and see whether the shitstorm has died down. If you’re d...

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Of course I had broken the first rule of messing with the machine: do one thing at a time. So the fact that my iBook, upgraded to Tiger, and after a brief flirtation with BitTorrent and some ignorant port jiggery-pokery, no longer seemed able to connect to my Airport Express was completely unfathoma...

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Back from my travels with no worse to report than the expected upset tummy. While I was away -- without much in the way of connectivity, or time to use that which there was -- I thought it would be a cinch to fix the look of my pages. Three hours later, I know it isn’t. So I’ve lifted a good looking...

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Having tinkered over the weekend to update the engine that drives this site, I've discovered that all is not well under the hood. The Comments section rattles and there's a definite grinding noise from the Search Results and Archive page. One solution is to abandon my personal fabulous design until...

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