So this counts as the second re-birth of the site, I imagine. It’s actually been up and languishing for a few weeks while I spent time on other projects, and waited on someone with better design skills to come up with a logo. Well, that’s done, and I finally got off my duff and wrote the url rewriting pieces to make it a seamless move. The old site’s still there, you just can’t get to it anymore and all the search engines should be updating to the new urls shortly. How fun. I’m looking forward to see how comment spam fares on this new blog with all of its advanced detection techniques compared to my old hack. I had killed all automated spam, we’ll see if this fares as well.
Incidentally, I’d also like to celebrate by announcing that I’m a Class B certified no-www domain. Yay! I’ve hated www since I first used Mosaic. Please join the cause. Of course, if I was really staunch, I’d get rid of www altogether. Guess I’m not quite that brave.
Well, you’re also on WordPress now, which is a whole lot more flexible than Unmovable Type.
Left by Michael Hampton on May 21st, 2006
And I’m definitely enjoying that part. MT was starting to creak and smell moldy. About the only thing I liked about the old install was that I had manually re-written some of the commenting pieces to use javascript so they were less likely to be picked up by automated spambots (it wasn’t so much my code that I think was effective as the fact that it was a unique implementation that made it more secure — harder to write automated pieces to hack everybody’s custom little tweaks).
Worst case, I can do the same here, but I’ve got faith in your code and the akismet stuff to keep things civil. In fact, I meant to turn off moderating of comments. Thanks for stopping by.
Left by Jordan on May 21st, 2006