Sorry for the rather lengthy outage on this page. Here’s the story. As I posted before, I’d been getting an increasing volume of comment spam for a while, and it was getting completely out of hand. To the point where I was getting more emails in my inbox telling me there was new comment spam posted than I was getting normal email spam, or indeed legit emails. And disallowing new comments wasn’t even helping; there was apparently some other vector into the site than the comment box. So I had to do something.

So I took advantage of the opportunity to take the site down for a while, and upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, and do some reorganization behind the scenes while I was at it. Unfortunately it took a lot longer than I expected, since I got quite busy and then went on vacation, and I’m just now getting around to fixing it. Sorry to all three of my faithful readers.

Also, I apologize for breaking any permanent links, bookmarks, and RSS feeds you might have been using. The RSS feed can now be found here, and you can email me if there are previous posts or other stuff that you can’t find. Also if you find broken links let me know.

Also also, I know the new all-white minimalistic theme is something of a departure from the previous look, but it’s just a placeholder that I pulled off the web until I can put something new together. I liked the old one, but it was getting a bit dated and didn’t support the new features in WordPress 2.0. We’ll see if I manage to come up with a replacement in a reasonable timeframe, but I wouldn’t hold my breath…