Now that I’ve relented in my crusade against full text RSS feeds, I’ve decided that Captchas are now my biggest pet hate.  CAPTCHA stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” and are the usually unreadable string of text that many sites now ask you to enter before you can [...]

I think the reason the amount of spam getting through my blog filters has increased, is because spammers have stepped up their efforts over the last couple of days.
I deliberately don’t clean out my Google Mail spam folder so that I can see a rolling number for the number of spam messages I received over [...]

I know I keep saying I’ll concentrate on the blogging and stop tinkering with my template and customisations, but I can’t help myself.  To be honest, I think I get as much satisfaction from tweaking this template as I do from posting and getting responses from readers.
My latest customisation is adding Snap Preview Anywhere to [...]

A couple of users pinged me via email to say that they hadn’t received their passwords after registering.  Whilst I was trying to work out what was wrong, I came across James Kelly’s Themed Login Plugin.  Judging by the limited amount of comments on James blog I’m guessing that this plugin is still waiting to [...]

I think I’ve found the culprit as the site seems a lot healthier now. I’ve disabled the Reader Posts plugin, which was showing what posts were just read by other users. I think what was happening was that because of the high load my site was under, the list of posts generated by [...]