Two new header graphics – hit refresh endlessly until you see Hels’s shades close-up and "…grayblog…" daubed on the roof of St Paul’s, Fathers4Justice-stylee.
Category: grayblog.co.uk
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Gravatar
I now have a Gravatar and I’ve implemented gravatars in the comments. I was slightly concerned that Gordon’s didn’t show up, but that is because he adds anti-spam text to his email address when he comments. Any comments or suggestions on the formatting of gravatars in the comments will be welcome, although as I have struggled with this for the past half hour, you may get short shrift.
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Header
Some of you might have seen the header graphic for this site that features Treacle. There is now one featuring Monty. Go on – waste your day hitting refresh until it shows up.
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Spam update
For WordPress fans – the new plug-in seems to be working. I’ve had no new spam comments (since I reported the spammer that was spamming this site – they did not seem to be on the blacklist) and no reports of false positives. Yay!
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Spam
I’m having comments spam problems again (anyone who reads my comments RSS output will have noticed them). So I’m using this WP plugin to prevent proven proxies from posting comments, and also to check for links in comments to known websites that sell or advertise the things that are usually promoted in the comment spams. I’ll let you know how I get on.
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RSS
For those that read this site using an RSS feed, I’ve added a padding to the title line as I had heard from the Uborkans that the three full stops at the beginning of my title were breaking the feed in some readers. I’d be grateful if someone could let me know if this makes any difference. I’m rather fond of my three full stops (not really a proper ellipsis), so I don’t really want to remove them. However, if it continues to be a problem, I may replace them with a couple of …s.
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Apologies
…for the extended outage here this morning. 34SP were upgrading the server and it seems to have taken longer than planned. Normal service resumed now though.
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Top tip
…for comment spammers: if you want to leave a comment spam, don’t put it in the most recent post as it is a bit, well, obvious.
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Going cheap!
Whilst using SiteMeter to check the browsers that you all use to read this (IE 6 – 68%, Firefox – 22%, Netscape 3 – 1% – you poor thing!), I spotted one of those sidebar ads for eBay.
Discount Meta Tags – new and used meta tags. Huge selection!Umm, say what?