can’t eat all that stuff in a single bite
I’ve updated the layout somewhat so that longer stories are now abbreviated on the front page – hopefully this makes the site a bit more readable. If something interests you, just click the link to read on. If not, well, I guess it’s even easier to ignore now.
I have also been testing the awesome akismet anti-spam plugin (not, as far as I can tell, related to this completely terrifying ‘sociable humanoid robot’ which I studied and feared when I did Artificial Intelligence at uni). So far it’s been nearly 100% effective, so as a result I’m going to get rid of the requirement that you provide an email address for comments, and first-time commenters will no longer be detained and subjected to stress-and-duress interrogation techniques in the ‘moderation’ facility.
[...] of spam which any website automatically attracts. Before registration was required, I was using Akismet, which was fairly effective, as in it caught 99.9%. Despite Akismet’s valiant attempts, the [...]