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Hit by comment spam

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 …

Sending you flowers

Subscribers to my feed will now have a little extra somethin’ – my most recent [Ma.gnolia bookmarks](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/vantan/bookmarks). Ma.gnolia is a product of [Zeldman](http://www.zeldman.com/)’s [Happy Cog Studios](http://www.happycog.com/), and is similar in nature to [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), except that it looks prettier. Of course, more people probably use [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), but I wanted to be different 😛 And Zeldman himself …

Parsing fancy

After upgrading to Movable Type 4 templates, I’m still sorting out some kinks that pop up every now and then. The most recent kink was spotted by [Jimmy Liew](http://cynics.info/) who noticed that my Feedburner feed hadn’t been updated in a while. Thanks, Jimmy! Turns out that the ampersands in some of my category names were …

Success!

I have redesigned this blog! OK, I didn’t do most of the designing. All I did was tweak the CSS and move some template code about. The amazing thing about [Movable Type 4](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/) (MT) is that it allows me to backup my old templates, purge them from the live system and replace them with the …