Right. I think I’ve got all the commenty stuff working again. You’ll still have to be registered with Typekey in order to comment, but hopefully you’re all used to that now. Sorry for the inconvenience over the last few weeks. I’m sure you’ve all got loads of really interesting comments stored up. And a big… Continue reading Comments
Category: blogging
Five Things
I’ve been tagged by Piers, so here are five things you might not know about me. When I was very young I was a member of my local Boys’ Brigade. As well as weekly BB meetings, this entailed going to church (and Sunday school) every week. I have no idea why I did this as,… Continue reading Five Things
No Comment
Ok, I haven’t had the time to get the authorised commenting working correctly with the new version of MT. And allowing everyone to comment was just leading to an effective Denial of Service attack on this server. So I’ve disable comments on this blog until I get back from holiday and can spend time looking… Continue reading No Comment
Splogs
Occasionally, I find that articles from this site are misappropriated for use on splogs. It seems, however, that most of my usual subjects are of no interest to sploggers as it has only happened a few times. But yesterday’s post about Cooking Vinyl seems to have both confused and excited the sploggers. This morning, Google’s… Continue reading Splogs
Comments
Oops. It seems that the update to the latest version of Movable Type broke the commenting on this site. I’m still not sure what happened (it seems to be a problem with the TypeKey integration), but comments are working again now (but only because I’ve removed the requirement for TypeKey authentication). I’ll look at it… Continue reading Comments
Upgrading
I’ve updated this blog[1] to the latest version of Movable Type. If you see any glitches that this might have caused, then please let me know. [1] And also Alternative Freak, Battersea MP and the Planet Balham Blog.
Shooting the Messenger
I was going to write something about Matthew Taylor’s little tantrum about blogs. But I see that Rachel has already said everything I would say – and far more eloquently that I would say it.
Alternative Freak
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a couple of weeks, but I keep forgetting. A friend of mind wrote a novel which is in the form of a teenager’s diary and we thought that the perfect way to publish it was as a fictional blog. So the result is Alternative Freak. I’m pretty sure… Continue reading Alternative Freak
Comment Spam Again
If you’ve tried to post a comment here over the last few days, you would have been disappointed. Over the weekend I came under another massive comment spam attack which brought my server to its knees. I was seeing a server load of over 300 (it should usually be less than 1). Even though I… Continue reading Comment Spam Again
Comments
As an experiment, I’ve made it so you need to be a registered user to comment on this blog. To comment, you’ll need a Typekey username. I really don’t want to do this as, for me, having random people commenting on entries is one of the great pleasures of running a blog. But the amount… Continue reading Comments