(b)logophile

I just upgraded WP and SK, and commenting still seems buggy. Rather than fixing it properly, I’m trying a new hacked-up solution. So if the comments explode with spam, it’s my fault. Promise (cross my heart and hope to die) to clean up if it all turns to custard. (Oh, I’ve disabled trackbacks ‘cos they [...]

Software rot seems to have hit my comment-spam-filtering plugin. I’m loath to turn it off, since the spam logs still show the-game-that-dare-not-speak-its-name advertisements on a daily basis, and I’ve got some upgrading scheduled for next week anyway. So until then, if commenting gets you an error message, it seems that the comment is getting through [...]

I had the rather surreal experience this afternoon of being woken up by the warning cries of (if I remember correctly) a putty nose monkey. No, I haven’t been travelling in Cameroon. Nor was I at the zoo. I was at a workshop on language evolution.