Category: grayblog.co.uk

I’ve just (belatedly) upgraded to WordPress version 1.2.1, an upgrade that apparently resolves a minor security flaw and also smooths the login process. As you’d expect from WordPress, the upgrade took about three minutes and appears to have been utterly seamless.

Whilst trying to delete unwanted comments, I’ve accidentally deleted some comments that were wanted. Oops. If your comment was amongst them, feel free to post again. Comments are "on" again for the moment.

670 comment spams in 11 hours is beyond a joke. When they are arriving at the rate of one or two every minute, it becomes more than you can cope with.
Consequently, the comment function for this site has been disabled. I might re-enable it in a few days. Sorry.

I’ve got a WordPress problem, although not a major one. I’ve recently been swamped by spam comments, all of which have correctly been filtered out for moderation. However, it is now filtering all comments for moderation, including the legitimate ones, even though the filter-all option in set to "off". So your comments will not appear immediately, only after I’ve approved them. I am investigating.

Still struggling to catch up. There will be updates. And pictures. I promise.

I’ve killed the spam. Having run Spam Guardian on the grayblog server for some time now, and having refined the settings based on the result of over 2500 messages passing through, I’ve now set it to "drop" all messages that it considers to be spam. Suddenly, my inbox is very quiet, but it should mean that I won’t have a gazillion junk mails waiting for me when I get back from the honeymoon.
So, if you send a mail and don’t receive a reply, you’ll know why. However, I think that is extremely unlikely unless you put lots and lots of links in the body, this being one of the criteria for assessing the spam-ness of a mail.

Hmm. Firefox renders grayblog with the sidebar in Times New Roman. It should be Verdana. Something is wrong somewhere.
And it puts an annoying mouse-over thingy to tell me that RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication.
AND it only remember the last dozen sites in the drop-down address bar.

I don’t think I’m going to be a fan. That’ll irritate Gordon.

Just occasionally, this site generates some fabulous feedback. Check out the latest comment added to this post.

I uploaded three new header graphics today – there are rather a lot now, so it may be some time before they appear when you visit here (unless you sit hitting refresh all day long), but they are entitled bubbleplastic, polycarbonate and lamp.
I get quite a kick when the one with Hels’s eyes comes up, particularly when I haven’t seen her for a day or two.

Talking of the fact that this is one of the longest-running blogs in the UK, I note that it is, in fact, grayblog’s fourth birthday today.
<insert introspective comment on the nature of blogging here>
Sounds like a good excuse for cracking open a couple of beers from the fridge when I get home.