Update: All fixed now! I just got an email saying that at least one person has tried to comment and has been unable to. I just tried and I can’t do it either. I’ll try and fix it now, and… Read More ›
Meta
The actual blogging bits of stuff
Featured search term of the week
Do any bloggers or website owners here not obsessively look at Referer strings? I’m fascinated by them, as you may have gathered by previous posts “Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.” and “Girls in white gumboots and fat chicks… Read More ›
Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment
A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.
“You’re such a buzzkill, snopes.”
A little Friday video divertissement: What happens when Google’s parents leave town for the weekend. [NSFW.]
A Christmas paean to Akismet
The comment autospamulatron we use at Hoyden About Town is Akismet. As of right now, it is reporting: “Akismet has caught 99,993 spam for you since you first installed it.” I figure that we’ll hit the 100,000 mark sometime within… Read More ›
Quiet time, and open thread
Both tigtog and I are going to be spending a lot of family time in the next week or so. This means light posting, as we’ve mentioned, but it also means we’ll only be checking the autospamulatron intermittently. If your… Read More ›
Blogroll update – for your reading pleasure
The Hoyden blogroll has had a moderately hefty update. Go check it out, there’s plenty of amazing, confronting, hilarious, thought-provoking reading there. Recent additions include: Ace Sheilas baroquestar Subway to Venus Ricky Buchanan Bonza Blokes strangedave (ETA) Crimitism
Busy day
Today I’m doing some reorganisation of the information architecture here. Now that WordPress has incorporated tagging we are modifying how we label our posts: instead of having a gazillion proliferating categories, we will shortly have a shorter list of broad… Read More ›
We’re back
Fancy that. I’m not quite sure what broke the blog, as the upgrading seemed to be going so well at first, so I will be moving carefully from now on. The look of the blog has been reverted to the… Read More ›
Fiddling
I’ve been thinking for some time that I really need to upgrade the site to the latest versions of WordPress and K2, which requires mostly me spending ages backing things up before updating. So, this will be happening and hopefully… Read More ›
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