So junkeater's been giving error messages that I'm not a registered user when people try to post comments today. That sucks. My new project will be figuring out how to implement my own capcha now. I'm really starting to feel that I've fucked around with this spam crap long enough. I'm tired of actual people from whom I'd really like to hear getting rejected by MT blacklist or error messages while the spam still gets through! I'm seriously considering asking for Expression Engine for xmas.

And on that note.. This is interesting news for people who have thought about upgrading from xanga, typepad, bloghosts (who is closing this month), livejournal, Blogger, or similar group-hosted weblog to having a little more control of their look and design: My site's host, Dreamhost, has implemented a very very simple way of installing the open source blogging software, WordPress, onto any of their hosted sites - by clicking one link in your dreamhost control panel - very handy!

I can honestly say that I recommend Dreamhost without reservation. They're affordable, fairly user-friendly for those new to the technical aspects of having a website, a lot of fun doohickies come standard with the account, changes to the account and site settings are usually implemented within two hours, and they're just all-around nice people. Go check out their price packages.

Did I mention that if you sign up with them during the month of December your allotted bandwidth is tripled for as long as you stay with them? Damn.

Now I've heard some good things about WordPress. And some of my favorite webloggers use it - Beth, Kestrel, Pamela, and Mel, to name a few. I don't know much about it. But I thought that people dangling on the cliff over wanting to host their own weblog might be interested in jumping off if they knew.

So there's that.

Also, I've set up all skins to have a popup blogrolling surf page based on how I did it with the dialup scarf skin. Because it looks neater and I like it but I might change it so the button is an option and still list all the blogrolls. I dunno there are just so many now it makes my sidebar awfully long.

And each shameless ad section is being changed to have links and ads that are specifically chosen to "match" the skin. Like the punk rock skin has a nifty php-based rotating banner for suicide girls and will have ads to hot topic and punk music stores (once I'm approved) while the Holiday Hedgehog Reindeer skin has ads for itunes holiday lists and stocking stuffers at overstock. I thought that would be kind of fun.

It's been really amusing to see who has an hasn't approved my site though. And who automatically approves you.

So yes, I'm selling out, but in a cool dynamic way.

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