I spent tonight working on a patch for wordpress 1.2.2 to add a more powerful delete function to comments. You can search on simple criteria (Name contains a or b or c but not d or e or f, and post contains g or h or i but not j or k or l) [...]

What is comment spam? It’s a long and not very interesting story, but if you suffer from it you may gain some small comfort from knowing why it happens. Or at least some of it, cos there’s a new type I’ve just started receiving, which mystifies me too at the moment. But [...]

I can imagine my blog dwindling again over the next few weeks. The reason? I now have a wiki. Where a blog is a bamboo channel down which the irregular trickle of my thoughts and ideas may flow, a wiki is a peat bog which soaks up the drops and keeps them [...]

My home box died while I was in the US. When I got home, it was sat part way through a reset. With that box, you have to be present to reboot it, sort of hold its hand, and switch the monitor off and on again at a key moment. Don’t ask [...]

Tonight marks two occasions:
1) I did 10,000 steps in a day for the first time since buying the pedometer. I hear this is the minimum you need to stay healthy.
2) I got 147 comments on my blog. After deleting all the ones relating to poker and not being relevant to the posts they [...]

My bloggificational urges come in batches. I’ll have a dry spell for a week or two, then one day I’ll have 11 Important Thoughts that seem to all be worthy of bloggificationalness. Time to try out the ’save as draft’ feature in wordpress I guess!
This post was written: yesterday.

OK OK sorry the comments are not appearing. I’ll fix ‘em soon.
Step stats: 11587, over two days, three airports, a train ride a walk home and a shopping trip.
Today I’m feeling surprisingly good, though at any given time one or other eye seems to require consciously focussing.
[EDIT]Righto, fixerated. Both problems are [...]

It looks like my blog might actually be working… w00t!
Everyone’s comments are currently being held hostage by haloscan, who want me to give them $12 for the ability to stop using them.
If I do get the comments, I have the horrid feeling I’ll have to manually connect them back up to the posts [...]

Going through a lumpy period with my new blog. You won’t know this of course cos it’s not live yet. But I continue to faithully post, if only to log step stats. Which today are 2917. Uh-oh. Looks like I’m going for a walk tonight before I get to play [...]

When I complained about blogger’s lack of workingness, Simong told me that it was easy to convert from blogger to wordpress. He even knew some people who’d done it. I was skeptical, as due to Dealing With Stuff I currently measure things on an effort scale of
none → cursory → too much
So I [...]