life with booyaa

aaaarrrggghhh!!!

i keep getting comment spam. it's from the same person/bot which gives a fake IP address, a different one each time just to make it impossible to block it and a fake website link. i don't understand what it's trying to achieve. it's just bleeding annoying is all i know.

i'm fed up with these stupid comments. i don't understand their purpose and they're annoying me. so, for the time being, i'm disabling comments. i will be upgrading movable type soon and hopefully there'll be a moderate comments before publish option and i'll be much happier about the whole thing. i don't even advertise my blog. what on earth must it be like for those who have high profile blogs? i shudder to think.

well, we finally got round to upgrading to movable type 3 point something.

it took a while as the upgrade (tested first so it didn't mess up my real blog) blitzed my stylesheet. it took me aaaages to write that. i was not best pleased. anyway. i've kind of given up, since it's been two months in the upgrading and i have a backlog of posts on my palm pilot, and here you have it with an off-the-shelf css. i will tweak it. none of that underlined hyperlinks nonsense, oh no. but it's not too far away from how it looked before so at least i don't have to do a complete rewrite. it's not showing the calendar or my creative commons button. don't know what's going on there. hmmm.

also an improvement is the moderate comments option, so comments will be open again with an automatic spam catcher. comments will be moderated at first but people i know will eventually make their way onto the trusted commenters list and won't have to wait a day to see if i've accepted their words.

so, some tweaking involved, but expect a flurry of new entries over the next week, as we catch up somewhat.

thanks to booyaa for adding a functional sidebar with widgets. i've now got a blogroll of sorts and space to add notes or notices. and then there's the template. this is an off-the-peg movable type theme. it is customisable, so some colour will creep in eventually, just didn't have time for it this weekend.

it was all relatively painless to set up. i asked boo to do it, didn't fancy going through it myself but he said compared to wordpress updates it was a breeze. we do have issues with the blogroll though, as it doesn't come directly from my blog reader, it's static and handcrafted. so it won't update according to who recently posted, it will just sit there, and i think that's a great shame. it's really, as it is, just a link to a tiny percentage of the blogs i read on a daily basis. ho hum.

more changes to come in the next couple of weeks. we're sweeping away the cobwebs, getting a paint job and getting this thing all souped up and ready to get out on the open road again.

just to let you know that i'm charting my ups and downs of the global juice feast on a separate and dedicated blog on cheapskate blogspot. so if you don't hear from me much round here, that's where you'll find me.

http://juicyloulou.blogspot.com

(warning: some topics on the other blog might put you off your dinner.)