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Wankers
Yes: wankers. Wankers! WANKERS! WANKERS! __WANKERS!__ Who am I talking about? Managed.com, of course, the company to which I give good money each month to host this site. What happened? Well, managed.com decided to move its network from California to … Continue reading
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Mixing Technology
I’ve spent the last couple of days tweaking a few small aspects of the site. The CSS that lays out the main page’s three column look is now as it should be, I believe. Previously, it was a rather hit-or-miss … Continue reading
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Anti-Spam Defences Holding
My new blog anti-spam defences seem to be holding up well. The current configuration starts with MT-Blacklist, which blocks more than 95% of the comment and trackback spam by checking for blacklisted strings in the various fields of the incoming … Continue reading
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Movable Type 3.17
I finally took the plunge and upgraded the server blog software to Movable Type 3.17 today. It was a fairly substantial upgrade, requiring a lot of template and style sheet editing, as well as the copying of files hither and … Continue reading
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Site fully rehoused
Last night, I moved e-mail service to the new hosted server. That was more or less painless. The only grief I caused myself was in upgrading Postfix as part of the process, which rendered my version of one of the … Continue reading
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