Longer feeding time

My blog was bombarded with comment spam an hour ago, and I could not log in to update anything because all the database connections were used up. My web host has since blocked all IP addresses that were attempting to connect to my database. [Contact me](http://vantan.org/about/contact.php) in case your IP was blocked and you cannot…

I’ve finally re-installed MT Blacklist properly. And closed comments and trackbacks for recent posts. I hope that lets in legitimate posts and pings while keeping most of the bad guys away. Here goes… [Update: What the heck. Thanks to this tip, I’ve also modified my referrals log to get rid of the referrer spam!]

Of all the things I forgot to do … I forgot to renew my domain name. Things started looking funny this morning, and people got redirected to some commercial portal selling sun tan lotion. At least it didn’t point to a certain nudist club. Fortunately my web host managed to rectify things. Thanks to ML…

Another incredible Blogshares jump in share price – this time to $495.77 with a valuation of $26,585.61, at last count. Good news to those who believe in hedge funds, as there are lots of ‘trimmings’ for the taking. Personally I don’t try to blog in such a way as to increase my share price. I…

Just added Digg to my posts. Not that I expect to be dug very often but every now and then the site ought to be tweaked. You dig?

Weird things have been happening on my blog. As I haven’t even had time to tinker around with it, it obviously wasn’t my doing 😛 Firstly, [Strangeknight](http://strangeknight.wordpress.com/) told me that my blog was down. I checked, and it was. My web host told me they were restarting the server. But Strangeknight also told me he…