Navel Gazing

So as was fairly noticeable, we had a hard drive crash here at Innocence Central a couple of weeks ago. Recovery is in progress, nothing was lost, etc. So not very traumatic. On the other hand, it did get me thinking about what I wanted to do with my blog, my LiveJournal, and so forth. After a bunch of said thinking, I decided to shut down this blog. It’s been around for five years or so, which is probably about enough time. Somewhere back there I got distracted from writing about culture and into politics, which was fun for a few years, but yeah. I’ve lost my zest for that. ...

This isn’t a real post; this is a way to spread what paltry Googlejuice I have. Hey! Cameron Rogers (original)! Stephanie Durrell (original)!

Movable Type 3.2 beta? Yep. Working OK? Yep. Getting a real workout? Nah. By the way, SpamLookup (original)? Keeps spam comments away even when you’re completely neglecting your blog. It’s awesome.

I’m trying out Brad Choate’s cool new anti-spam plugin (original). If you have trouble commenting or sending a trackback, please drop me a line. If you’re reading this on Livejournal, ignore it.

I converted this blog over to Wordpress 1.5, out of curiosity. For some reason, the front page takes about ten times longer to load in Wordpress. I probably won’t be switching any time soon.

Everything old is new again, particularly my blog design. If you run into issues, drop me a comment or an email.

Population: One is now running Movable Type 3.14. It’s almost a mathematical constant! I also upgraded MT Blacklist to match. Let me know if you see any problems.

They’re not personal blogs. They’re not generalist blogs. Oh, hell, I read enough of ‘em — I guess they’re Historical Blogs. Thus, Bostonia (original), a lovely little series of explorations of Boston’s rich history; Old is the New New, “with a special interest in the history of technology and business in America and the world”; Cliopatria (original), a lot of smart people talking about history together; and Pillow Talk, a blogaptation of Sei Shonagon’s “Pillow Book.” ...

I just installed Brad Choate’s MT-DSBL plugin (original), hacked slightly so that it checks against both the Distributed Sender Blackhole List (original) and the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor List. (Perhaps I should add SORBS (original)?) Hopefully this’ll cut down on spam. If this interferes with anyone’s commenting, please let me know. Edit: it screws up mine. Off for now. Edit: found the problem (my colo provider’s DNS is somewhat over-zealous). It’s back on.

Speaking of which, the squidguard blacklists might make really good input for MT-Blacklist. Remember this and try it.