A couple of days off work has meant that I’ve been a bit short on things to post about recently.  It comes to something when your own mother phones you up and tells you that you are slacking because of the lack of new posts.

However this has meant that I’ve had some time to ‘fiddle around’ with various behind the scenes settings, and has allowed me some time to think about the redesign of this site.

Also I’ve been working on the Podcast.

I’d also like to take this chance to say a big ‘Thank you’ to the people at Blogware, who sorted out my spam problem incredibly quickly.  Oh and also a big congratulations to Joey and The Redhead who just got married.

I flew out to Canada to celebrate Joey’s birthday – both the craziest, and most expanding thing I have ever done.

I promise, I haven’t been playing World of Warcraft (Not since some rotten sod introduced me to EVE-Online anyway, and I can level up in that while doing other things, which is great for me).

I’m back to work tomorrow, so with a bit of luck I’ll have something interesting to write about rather than ‘Went to another abdominal pain that turned out to be constipation’.

Otherwise I may have to make something up.

I have a feeling that I’ll be busy over the weekend, as there is a huge amount of overtime shifts that aren’t being covered…

In the past 10 minutes I’ve had over 650 comment spam messages to this blog.

Comment spam that I am going to have to delete by hand tomorrow/later today.

Were I feeling on top form, I’d be wanting to kill things in a painful and noisy fashion.

So I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to turn off anonymous posting. 

But console yourself that it is really easy to get an account, and that it works on all Blogware blogs.

I think I’ll be throwing things around the room after I’ve had some sleep though…

Blog Assessment of Personality System.

‘BAPS’ for short…

I was driving aimlessly around, trying to find an interesting job, but actually thinking about the redesign of the Guardian.

Many of the blogs that I read regularly have been commenting about the redesign of the Guardian newspaper, and I was pondering what this meant about the blogs that I read, and what it says about my personality.

The first time I was in college, I used to supplement my meagre income with Tarot card readings and palm reading (palm reading I would often do for free at parties, it allowed me to retire to a dark corner and stroke the hands of attractive young women).  All of which is utter rubbish, but it was amusing at the time.

So I now offer a new service – The BAPS.

Send me a list of 10 or 12 blogs or sites that you read regularly (Not Boing Boing, as everyone reads that), leave a tip in the Donation site and I’ll send back my analysis of your reading habits, and what it says about your personality.

It will not be the same as everyone else, nor will it be a simple ‘cut n paste’ job.

Honest.

And this post isn’t just a chance to snaffle some Google juice for the word BAPS, which for the non-Brits is a slang term for a female chest.

I love reading peoples comments, not only are they often interesting, but they also serve to swell my ego.  This is a good thing.

This seems to be a popular blog, which is a good thing, but with that popularity comes a price.

Comment and Trackback spam.

I’ve been coming back from work and finding 20–30 bits of comment spam, and often half a dozen bits of Trackback spam.  After twelve hours of work, the last thing that I want to do is sit down and clear out the clutter.

As one of those people who hates registering for anything, especially reading/commenting on blogs I’ve always left open the possibility to comment anonymously without having to sign in.

Unfortunately I think that this is going to have to change.

So in the next couple of days, unless I receive another idea on how to stop the spam, I’ll be turning off anonymous commenting.  The problem is that I’m kind of tied to the Blogware commenting system, so switching to a slightly less spam-friendly is as far as I’m concerned out of the question.

Obviously I’d like everyone to register a commenting identity, as it makes it easier to follow what people are saying to me, but if you want to remain anonymous then you can use the following details.

Username: guest

Password: guest

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