Category Archives: This Site

If you’ve had any connectivity problems with this site over the last couple of days, that’s because I’ve been busy moving the site to a new home, over at managed.com. Every time we move house, I have the headache of … Continue reading →

As I wrote in my last entry, I’ve been forced to take measures against trackback spam. The patch is proving effective, so I produce it here in the hope it will help some of you, too. Note that this patch … Continue reading →

Blog comment spammers have been having a hard time of it lately, given the new measures that people have been devising to render their links ineffective. Of course, rendering spam links ineffective works only acts as a deterrent. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

Slashdot has an article on how comment spammers are killing Movable Type blogs by introducing high load on servers. The report turns out to be talking about a bug in MT 3.x, whereby the server gets put under high load … Continue reading →

I’m getting really tired of people using the ability to post comments to blog entries for their own nefarious purposes, namely to drop in links to the latest site for cheap Viagra and penis enlargement technology. Presumably, they’re hoping that … Continue reading →