Unqualified Offerings

Checking in long enough to thank the guest-posters and to note that a couple of you have been unjustly caught up in Akismet’s spam-filtration. Akismet seems particularly hostile to abb1, Gary Farber and the Wine Commonsewer. I on the other hand am fond of all three. Unqualified Offerings regrets the error. I haven’t discovered any [...]

I will likely try to upgrade the UO WordPress installation this weekend from 1.5 to 1.5.2. I’ll save my theme and plugin folders in hopes of being able to put everything back together, but things may go wonky for a bit.

The last high-priority fix is an oddity of the theme template in IE. IE sticks the rightmost sidebar contents at the bottom of the page instead of in the white border area, no matter how big or small the window is. This sucks. IE sucks too, but half or more of my readers still use [...]

Trying to install an update of the little-loved comment preview plugin. There may be . . . difficulties in the near term.
UPDATE: Comment functionality much improved. Also a navigation tweak. Have at it.
Thanks to Steven Berg of Peiratikos for some tips I finally got around to implementing.

For the time being at least, and maybe permanently. Apparently someone launched a determined DOS attack on a site that was sharing a server with this one. For the last couple days, Hostmatters has been dispersing sites among servers trying to get people back up and isolate the victim site. I don’t know if they’ve [...]

Now that I have comments I’m experiencing many things I only heard about before. Just tonight I had the first “fake trackback,” where someone sends a trackback to a post of yours without actually linking it. Lamer! Into the Deleted bin with you. Have fun with the online casino guys.
UPDATE: Oops! Now it’s there. My [...]

I’ve closed comments on all posts through April. I’ll shut down May tomorrow. It’s tedious because I have to do it one item at a time. The trackback spam is already tailing off.

If you can avoid the terms “holdem” and “poker” in your comments, it would be a) appreciated, and b) keep your comment from getting caught up in the new blacklisting routine.

Been pretty smug about my relative lack of comment and trackback spam to date. But just tonight, the deluge. It’s all getting thrown into moderation, but it’s still annoying, and it takes up space in my in-box.

If you’re one of the handful of prominent bloggers who read this site, AND you have pull with Henry Copeland, AND you feel moved to see if you can get my blogads application unstuck, I would be very grateful. You can even tell me you did it and I’ll kiss your ass. Stanley Kurtz will [...]