Reckless design

Loosely following the practices of Kottke.org, I shall follow up on previous blog posts with updates and amendments. I take back everything I said about how cool the Belkin Cassette Adapter is. Of course, most of these CNet reviews came in a while after I had purchased them. But they confirmed my suspicions that, perhaps,…

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!]

My web host has informed me that the server CPU load hit 99.9% because of trackback spam sent to this website. If it continues tomorrow (which is likely), my account will be suspended indefinitely. I have to do a lot of things to fix it and back up all my data. And that of everyone…

Stephen P. Williams, author of ‘How To Be President’, just wrote in to me after reading my review of his book. I’m glad to hear that he was glad to hear that I liked his book. Thanks! Somehow, I’ve got myself honorary listing as a Canadian website.

I tried to transfer my domain name a couple weeks ago, from Enom (via my old web host Addaction), to Namecheap. After putting in my request, Namecheap sent the usual notification emails and told me to get an ‘EPP’ code. Addaction sent the code to me without making things too difficult, which I must give…

While looking for help on the Movable Type website on how to properly install my side navigation in the form of customisable widgets, I realised that [SixApart](http://www.sixapart.com/) is also in the midst of updating their documentation. [This link on widget sets](http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/widget-sets.html), at the time of writing, is broken. It is linked from [this page for…