If you’ve attempted to leave comments recently, you probably ended up here – I apologize for that. It wasn’t an editorial comment, honest.

I’m using two anti-comment-spam plugins – Kitten’s Spam Words and Three Strikes SPAM. I marked the first piece of spam I received with Kitten’s Spam Words, and it incorrectly identified the local gateway IP as the source of the post and added it to the list of common spam words… Oops!

The two filters are not at fault, it is not easy to identify the source IP of a post (especially when the request comes from the maze of routers that is my upstream provider). It’s my fault for not recognizing the IP for what it was.

Yup! There’s a new blog engine in town boys!

I was getting tired of cleaning up comment spam (aren’t we all) and was looking around for a replacement writeback plugin for Blosoxom that had spam blocking. Well one thing led to another (as the internet is want to do) and I ended up reading a bunch of really nice things about WordPress.

So, I took the plunge and after a little futzing with the templates and css I’m back in business. The comments didn’t make it through (I think they might have fallen down a crevasse), but well, most of them were spam anyway :-). (Q: Should punctuation go before or after a smiley?) If you’d posted any, and were really attached to them, let me know. I’ll go all St. Bernard on them and haul them up.

So without further ado, I’d like to introduce the new reBeLog, now with added blogging power, searching, a calendar, and a fresh new minty taste!

Colours and Fonts and Pictures. Oh my!

I got the Bolosxom writeback plugin working. Not sure whether I need to tweek it more.

Be kind 🙂