This is the captain speaking

Yes, this blog is still alive. In fact, I just spent the past hour or so doing some major behind-the-scenes upgrading. (To the latest Drupal 6, not Drupal 7. The Drupal 7 update is for another day.) All changes should be invisible to you, so please let me know if ...

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Victory is mine

Ah, the sweet, sweet taste of victory:

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Site update: quick overview

Okay, I've finished updating and re-organizing the site. The big changes are:

  1. You can now create accounts for yourselves.
  2. You will need to solve a CAPTCHA to either create an account or to post a comment anonymously.
  3. You can now 'watch' a post of mine, meaning that new comments ...
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Upcoming technical changes to commenting

The spammers are winning. Time to fall back and re-trench.

First, let me give credit where credit is due. The spam filters are doing their job remarkably well. Since I put them in place, they have caught and filtered out 5,682 of the 5,934 pieces of spam to ...

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Best spam ev-- well, so far

The spammers are getting smarter, and in a very interesting (and possibly scary) way.

Consider the comment I just received on an three-month old post:

Very good post, thanks a lot.
Posted by dido on Jan 4th, 2010 at 8:18 am.

What's so bad about that? Is it ...

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Lovely spam

Well, now I know what happens when I go too long without posting: the spambots swarm in.

It's actually been interesting watching them work. First a single spam comment shows up, all on its own. Not so bad, you think. It's just one. I'll get around to ...

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