I’ve disabled DoFollow. >:O The amount of incoming spammy-URL comments was greater than the amount of genuine ones. I’ll find another way to reward regular commenters.

I know quite a few of my regular readers are aspiring writers and as such, are writing or have written books of their own. In light of this, I think a few of you may find Dee’s post on Bookhabit and its ‘financial model’ interesting. Specifically this excerpt: Bookhabit’s author pay-out model is deliberately structured… read full entry »

It’s been somewhat windy the past couple of days, brought to a head this afternoon with a loud crack as our already-damaged apple tree split in half. I’m not surprised, the entire thing was swinging around like crazy! That’ll have to be cut down now, it’s obviously unstable. Still, it was nice while it lasted…. read full entry »

J!NX have just shipped me I’m Huge on the Internet T-Shirt for my collection. woot!

I’ve been waiting in all day for a new chair to arrive. As I’ve now got a desk in the back bedroom to do my studies on, it was only right that I should have a chair to go with it. Anyway, come 4:35 I was getting annoyed and wrote in the q*bee IRC “I… read full entry »

One of the most effective spam blocking techniques I used in my custom CMS was a scoring system. The idea is that the more spammy someone is, the higher the score they are given. After a certain cut-off point whereby a person or spam-bot has a score than our pre-set threshold, their comment or correspondence… read full entry »

I’m not really a big music listener. It wasn’t until I started work — where we listen to the radio all day — that I actually started buying my own CDs. Shocking, that? Anyway, I’ve joined last.fm so that I’ve got something to bop along to when I’m studying my course guides for the next… read full entry »

I know my blog is becoming the cat equivalent of a “mommy blog” but I have a lot of work/studies at the mo’. Bear with me.

I’ve come to the conclusion that my house has been turned into a cat hotel. Hex is currently holding a conversation with Fudge through the back bedroom door, where Fudge is kept when he’s not being directly supervised. Fudge has food delivered like room service, and Hex has taken to eating upstairs on the landing…. read full entry »

BellaBook3.6 is out with some big-ish changes behind the scenes (tidying, etc). Mostly the same up front :) Testing would be appreciated as it’s late and I’m knackered, but always back-up entries.txt first. Update: fixed some typos that were causing edit/delete errors. Please re-download. I really shouldn’t code at 11pm of an evening. :/