Site Administration

I've never understood vandals.

A small proportion of the graffiti in any big city can be considered as "urban art" because of the talent and time required for its execution, but most graffiti seems to be worse than useless. Tagging is particularly daft, as the perpetrators are effectively autographing their crime.

I'm not quite sure how, but the settings for CAPTCHA on comments got dropped, making it impossible for people to post comments. I think it's fixed now - will keep an eye on it over the next few days to be sure.

Apologies for the problems.

Based on site feedback (and encouragement from a couple of friends), I've added a new top-level area to the site: Code.

The idea is to collect together various code based blog posts in a way that's more accessible for a casual reader.

I'd be interested in your feedback.

Sorry to say, but the Spammers seem to be winning the war. I've just spent a bunch of holiday time cleaning up a mess caused by someone posting a bunch of spam laden comments.

Effective immediately, all comments posted here will require approval before being published. As always, spam comments will be exterminated with extreme prejudice.

Am I going crazy? Is that an Advert at the top of my site?

Well, yes, it is - but one in a good cause. Legislation is about to go-live here in New Zealand that will force ISPs to disconnect users (whether personal or business) if anyone makes an accusation of copyright infringment. No proof required, no court case, no verification of facts, no redress for false accusations - in otherwords, Guilty unless proved innocent.

With the arrival of a New Year, I thought it was time to update the look of the site a little. After a couple of weeks effort and tweaking, you can now see the result - hope you like it!