Spam Account Cleanup

Foolishly, I left the “allow anyone to register” option on for this blog after I got akismet’s WordPress plugin working. Which means that every few days, I’d get spammers signing up to see if I’d given users better access than people who were just posting. I had 147 accounts, of which 27 were legitimate. This post is to announce that we’re back down to those 27, and signing up for accounts has been disabled. If I’ve accidentally deleted you account, sorry, but I didn’t recognize your username or your email address, and I’m tired, so I’ve likely made at least one mistake.

If you really feel like you need one, let me know by email, and I’ll hook you up.

WordPress 3.0

I just got the notice inside my wordpress dashboard that 3.0 has been released. Like an idiot, I went ahead and installed it without thinking. I can do this because I keep a nightly backup of the wordpress database contents *and* the wordpress directory files. If it had blown up, I could easily revert. I’m working on a post about my backup strategy, and how you can implement it yourself.

Also, FWIW, 3.0 looks pretty slick. It feels faster than the older versions, and the dashboard is a little gentler on the eyes. I’ll work up a full feature change post soon, as well.

WordPress app

The WordPress app on my iPhone just crashed twice, taking my posts with it. Dammit.

jQuery – JavaScript that I dont hate

I have been diving into JavaScript recently for a project at work and I’ve been working with an Ajax library called jQuery. It’s pretty amazing and it let’s me do a lot of things that would be otherwise impossible. I’m tempted to start writing plugins for WordPress and PixelpPost. If only I knew how to get it to load inside RSS readers…

No Picture Tomorrow

There won’t be a picture of the day on the photoblog tomorrow. My upgrade is still running. I started it at noon, and it’s 8:30 PM. It’s almost to the halfway mark (%48), and it’s nearly 2/3 of the way through ‘upgrading thumbnails’. 58,017 left. Sheesh.