It’s come to my attention that my only real Decal plugin project, Magellan 2, is no longer working. This is no great surprise, as the changes implemented in Decal 3 have broken all plugins. Because of this, people have asked if it an d when it’s going to be fixed.
Unfortunately, the answer from me is “Probably never”. My reasons are…
- I no longer have an AC account, nor the will to pay for one.
- The changes needed to simply bludgeon the old version back to life would take a good few hours. If I were going to do anything, I’d rather fix things properly.
- I’m currently insanely busy.
- Decal 3 isn’t finished yet.
Whilst I’d like to fix it (it was an interesting little puzzle), these problems seem to indicate Magellan 2’s demise for the immediate future. The 3rd is also the reason my posting rate has fallen off again – I shall, however, try and correct that as soon as possible.
“Non omnis moriar” – Magellan 2 (2002-2005)
A recent spate of trackback and comment spam has lead me to install some anti-junk plugins on this site. Specifically, I’m now using Trackback validator to delete anything from people who leave a trackback, but haven’t actually linked to me.
Virtually all these spams are left by zombied Windows machines (another plus point for forcing an “Internet users licence”), with the recipient site being hosted in Russia. Much as it bothers me, my next step will be to block all comments with links to sites hosted in countries amiable to these criminal scum.
Update: All comments from people without an account are now subject to a “captcha” (yay, another awful “fun” acronym) to ensure they are not a bot.
Well, continuing comment spam has forced me to put all comments containing any form of link into a moderation queue. In case anyone wants to every post a comment, I will moderate the queue regularly.
The diverse range of comment spam source IPs makes me think this is done via zombie Windows PC’s, so I’ll be reporting the comment spam “beneficiary” from now on. Anyone who pays a company money to advertise their site via spamming needs a serious wake up call.
Well, this weblog’s been up barely a week, and already the comment spam has begun. Why these lowlife think it’s clever to mass spam private websites I don’t know. I do know they’re idiotic enough to not even put a valid URL in their junk message, so it is entirely pointless.
I don’t want to turn on comment moderation, so I’ll strugle on manually deleting them until it gets too bad. Until then, I’ve got some abuse@spammingidiot.com mails to send.
