Monkling's Blog

If anyone has a problem commenting, let me know. I’ve been using something called Akismet which has caught pretty much all of my spam before it even hits the page but I added something else called Spam Karma which I’m hoping will completely block certain IPs. I’m trying this new thing because I’ve been getting 50 spam comments a day that Akismet is catching & which I then have to delete so I’m test driving the new one to see if it’ll keep the spam robots out altogether.

I’m just not sure if it’ll impact anything else, like, oh, preventing the couple of real people I have here from commenting. Anyhow, if you get any weird errors, would you please use that Email link in the upper right hand side of the page under the Tools section.

Thanks.

Carry on.

They’re doing maintenance on my server & moving everything to a newer data center.

This move will begin Friday, March 21st, at 9 PM PDT, and is expected to last up to 12 hours, until Saturday, March 22nd, 9 AM PDT.

That means my blog will be down, my email will be down, the HW board will be down… basically my entire life. They claim it’ll take 12 hours but, so far, it’s always been way longer.

I am going to try to remember to stay signed on to AIM in case anyone needs me. Even if I’m not signed on, I can receive anything sent when I do sign on. No one should even need to ask me what my screen name is.

If someone IMs me and I don’t reply but it doesn’t show me as idle, it means one of my kids may be on my computer. If they reply without my permission, they know I will chop their fingers off so they won’t dare respond.

I had to disable my little plug-in that catches spam. There must have been a compatibility issue (which is odd for it to turn up suddenly like that). The reason for disabling it is the stupid software wasn’t letting me post a new entry.

Why am I telling you this? Without that software, there are going to be strange comments, many containing weird links. I’ll delete them as soon as I see them but… well, if I’m not here and some get through and you’re wondering who the heck assdxxx3234 is who is now my new best blog buddy, that’s what’s going on. Spam.

Editing to add (in case you don’t read the comments): If anyone tried to comment yesterday or early this morning & got a weird error saying you were considered spam – it wasn’t you. I got the exact same message when I tried to post. This was related to the plug-in which is now disabled.