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Recently this blog has been attracting a lot of spam and Akismet doesn’t seem to be keeping up with the deluge. I’ve decided to disable comments at the moment due to my own lack of activity here.

I am intending to take up blogging again at some point in the near future but for the moment I have a lot to focus on and, quite frankly, I don’t have the energy to come and moderate 30 or so spam comments every day, not to mention the other 15 or so daily spam comments that actually make it onto the blog.

Once I start regularly blogging again sometime in the next few months I will obviously re-enable comments and hopefully Akismet will be working with the efficiency it used to.

I’ve finally upgraded my blog to v2.0.x of Wordpress. I was previously on 1.5.x and there was nothing of note that made me to want to upgrade. That was until I found out that my category permalinks weren’t working.

I decided that something as simple as a PHP5 compatibility issue must have been fixed in the latest and greatest version of WP so I duly upgraded. Thankfully, the WP team have, as usual, done a stellar job of making the upgrades as easy as pie. The blog didn’t even go down while the files were uploading!

The wordpress crew are having a backup week. Check out the press release:

WordPress is celebrating blog security and protection with WordPress Backup Week July 23-30.

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and website management tools, is sponsoring WordPress Backup Week July 23-30. Step-by-step backup instructions will be available in the online manual, the WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org), and online in the WordPress Support Forum (http://www.wordpress.org/support) to help you through the process. Continue Reading »