Image taken from "Maraetai before sunrise" by Piotr Zurek. Used under a Creative Commons licence.

Spam!

Wow, you leave your blog out there in the big ol’ www for a few months to fend for itsslf and when you check back in on it, it’s full of spam! 1158 spam comments to be precise. So much for the WP Captcha Free plugin, that claims to “Block comment spam without captcha”. Continue reading Spam!

Grandad-buntu, Part 2

Well, the last month’s been fun!! As I mentioned in my previous posts, all my VPS servers were with RackVM, who vanished suddenly towards the end of August, taking my site with them. I knew it was a gamble when I signed up with them, but I thought they’d at least have to decency Continue reading Grandad-buntu, Part 2

Identi.ca Link-up?

Right then, I’ve just installed the WordPress Identi.ca Tools plugin, so hopefully this post will be advertised on Identi.ca……

My First Post!

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I’m not quite sure what I’ll be posting here yet, but I needed something to put on my new VPS, which was an absolute bargain from RackVM! I guess my next few posts will be about what I’m up to on my VPS (or more correctly, VPS’s – those RackVM guys have some really good deals on at the moment!). As you can see, I managed to get WordPress installed. Continue reading My First Post!