Laurabelle's Blog

I haven't been blogging much lately, partly because I don't have any time (argh), but also because almost the only thing happening in my life is work, and I can't talk about most of what I'm doing. This stuff isn't top-secret or anything; it's just that what I would like to do is complain about [...]

I've been getting more spam recently (for the drug that begins with a V and the one that begins with a C), so I've closed comments for all posts older than 30 days. I regret that this shuts off legitimate comments too, but comments on old posts are even more rare than comments on new [...]

Rant alert! I don't know if this happens anywhere else, but at the iSchool there are a lot of people who call webserver logs weblogs, and it bugs the crap out of me. I've explained it to people several times, but they just don't seem to get it. I guess people make this mistake because [...]

I've been thinking more about Ben and Mena, Six Apart, and this licensing scheme, and I've decided that I don't blame them for this turn of events. They started developing Movable Type in their spare bedroom, in their spare time, and as it got more popular, they decided it would be great if they could [...]

It looks like I won’t be upgrading to MT 3.0. Six Apart is trying to put a happy face on it, but their pricing scheme is frankly absurd, and Shelley is right that there’s no guarantee of a free version past 3.0. It’s really too bad, and I think (hope) that Ben and Mena will [...]

It's gotten to the point on some of my comment-threads where it's kind of hard to tell who's replying to whom, so I eventually sat down and added some colors to help distinguish between levels of commenting. Check out the effect on a thread with lots of comments, like this one. I think it helps, [...]

Today I checked my niceperson.org email (I only do that every few days since I generally don't get anything but spam to those addresses) and found a couple of emails from a mysterious, anonymous individual. This isn't the Moron (for one thing, this guy has a bigger vocabulary), but he is quite secretive. I won't [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that my blog has acquired its first critic. According to this enlightened individual, I am a F***ING MORON!!, Jeff is a FAT F***IN PIG AND HE IS ALSO A MORON!!!, and my rotten Mondays are all my fault because (you guessed it) I am a f***in moron!!!! [...]

I seem to have completely missed the waves of comment spam that have plagued the world of Movable Type in the past months (see Burningbird's recent post on the topic for links to posts of hers that provide a kind of timeline for the attacks). I'm apparently not popular enough to merit an attack, and [...]

Dorothea and I have different strategies towards category archives. As she says, The problem with running off at the keyboard the way I do is that eventually, adding a new blog entry becomes an exercise in CPU-hogging. Her solution is to sub-divide her categories so that each has fewer entries. While I don't object to [...]