There are a few news tidbits, housekeeping, etc. regarding barnson.org. Read on if you’re interested in technical esotera…
- Move to a new server. Yep, I’m relocating again. This time, it’s to a faster machine with more hard disk space, so it should be all good.
- Turned off anonymous posting. Due to a few idiot spammers posting advertisements anonymously to many weblogs, I set it up so that although you can post a comment anonymously, it gets sent to a submission queue — meaning that if it doesn’t pass my review, it doesn’t show up. This means I end up seeing the ads so you don’t have to! I’m scared for what this means for the future of weblogging, though, that these robots go out and try to post to a bunch of weblogs to pump the Google rating of porn sites. But, as far as you’re concerned, it means if you post while anon, rather than using your login, you’ll have to wait until the next time I log on to see the comment. Spammers suck.
- Enabled the “scheduler” module. This entry, for instance, is scheduled to show up tomorrow (Tuesday), although I’ve written it today (Monday). This allows people to say when they want their post to show up, and when (if) they want it retracted. It’s not perfect, but it is serviceable and beats me changing dates on things to a few hours in the future when I want it to show up tomorrow morning rather than now… Anyway, this one probably won’t affect you, but if you notice posts going up, like, while I’m on vacation or something, you’ll know what I’ve done 🙂 Drupal rocks for weblogging.
That’s about it. Thanks for visiting!