Spam spam go away

In last couple weeks this blogs been hit hard by comment spam. None of it got through my filters and blacklists etc but I’ve been getting about 100 a week. These are mostly trying to piggy-back onto posts that already have valid comments. New comments on posts that have no existing comments get trapped by

It’s Broke!

Wonder why I’d been a bit quiet? I’ve been battling a sore shoulder since last Tuesday….finally got to get an x-ray today. It’s broken! Fractured! So will be a bit quiet until I figure out how to compute from bed effectively. Photos to follow……no scar, no proof! 🙂 Dave

My first comment spam

I got hit by my first dose of comment spam on this blog the other day. About 6 comments all much the same from the same given name and given url, with different IP addresses. This sent me looking for plugins for WordPress to combat it and instead found a few tips on things I

Fang sig meme

Following advice Fang gave to Cam, I created a new sig for my lifekludger emails. If you wanna see what it is send email to fangsigmeme@lifekludger.net and check out the sig!

Blobcast #2

Okay, so I didn’t put #1 here. Point is I’m having hellish time trying to get #2 working through a feed. And iTunes isn’t making it easier. So tried d/loading iPodder and the thing keeps telling me there’s errors and quits….so, lets try sticking it in here. Blob2 – Attention, Recognition and Context. No Need

Blob and Lifekludger in Temple U roundup

Temple Uni does a good Disability Blogs Roundup and this blog and Lifekludger get a wrap in roundup #4… Disability Blogs Roundup, #4 I’ll start the roundup this month with a welcome to some new disability-related blogs. Australian David N. Wallace has put up TWO: blob is his personal blog, and LifeKludger is specifically for

The new blob

As you can see, I have blob up on my domain running on WordPress. I’ve modified the standard classic theme that WP installs to my liking. Thanks to a script that takes posts from Blogger and imports them into WordPress I found over at the Skeltoac blog, the process was less painfull than I’d anticipated.

Blob lives again!

Rumours of my demise are much over-rated! Yes, that’s right. Contrary to a couple posts (now deleted) this blog, called blob, is NOT going to disappear. Instead, it will continue as my personal blog to be filled with all those wonderfull things I get to say you just can’t live without! I will no doubt

Starting Another Blog

Hi folks (all 2 of you! :)) I’m starting ANOTHER blog! I’ve reached the limits of what Blogger can offer me so I’ll be using WordPress as the platform. Blob will still be used but as my personal blog for anything that catches my eye. The new blog will be called “Lifekludger” and generally be

a change of style

We were brainwashed Okay, I relent. I started out this blog thing not really knowing what I was doing and had formulated ‘styling rules’ in my head and tried to follow them for consistency. Such things as “tiny font”, “small pic in top right-corner”, “no caps, just punctuation”, “cryptic titles” were the unwritten rules running