Kromey’s Adventures has moved to a new URL – http://kromey.us/. Please update your bookmarks.
The previous URL (http://kromey.sd41.net/) will remain active for the foreseeable future, forwarding visitors here. The old URLs (http://www.sd41.net/ or http://sd41.net/) will be retired soon and no longer forward visitors here. Be sure to update your links and bookmarks!
Just discovered a bug in my new anti-spam WordPress plugin that made it impossible for anyone to comment. It’s been fixed, but this of course brings to the front the critical need for a proper testing environment!
If you’ve been paying attention to my Akismet counter on the sidebar, you’ve probably noticed the number trending upwards quite rapidly over the last week. Apparently the spambots have found me.
Akismet’s done a superb job of preventing you fine folks from seeing the spam. And WordPress similarly does a superb job of providing a single-click interface to purge all that spam. But I’d really rather not have to be bothered with that.
So I’ve just implemented a quick-and-dirty plugin that uses Tornevall’s DNSBL service to bar these spambots from posting at all. With any luck none of you will be affected or even notice at all, but do let me know if you find yourself unable to post comments (assuming you have another way of reaching me, that is).
Coincidentally, this is providing a handy lesson in writing WordPress plugins. In the dive-in-headfirst-and-hope-you-can-swim sort of way…
So, here I am again, with yet another new blog. This time, though, I’ve finally broken down and installed a ready-made one instead of trying (yet again) to motivate myself to actually develop one from scratch. Which has always been a great learning experience, but they never become feature-complete and always seem to suffer from various this-and-thats that I just don’t have the time nor motivation to repair.
So, let’s make someone else develop my blogging software for me! Hooray, outsourcing!
This time around, this blog will be an amalgamation of my own random thoughts, myriad little things that happen to me, the occasional techie article, and, of course, my own little brand of opinionated blogging.
Enjoy!
Happy New Year everyone! And welcome to the re-launch of SD41.net!
My New Year’s resolution is to keep up with this blog. The site design is still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to have something up to ring in the new year with. I’ll be doing a lot of work on the blog section, adding some navigation, a calendar of posts, tags and a tag cloud, and even RSS feeds.
After that, who knows? The sky’s the limit!
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