Category: Housekeeping

The Story So Far

Housekeeping

# Active accounts (starting):  47,244

# Active accounts (current):  27,290

That’s after twelve solid hours.  Over 8,000 Russian bots, and 7,500 identified spam email addresses.  I did get through all the “A” accounts, so there’s that.

Now to tackle the rest of the alphabet.

One last thing:   Reader 0007 and Reader Paul W. (from our Powdered Wig Department), please email me because I inadvertently deleted your accounts, and I’ll reinstate them ASAP.  Also, anyone whose username begins with A/a, please check in case I did likewise harm to you.

I’ll try to get a little blogging done today, just to escape the tedium of looking at lines and lines of code.  How programmers do this all day every day for years without going postal is a mystery for the ages.

Housecleaning

Housekeeping

No, this is not the housecleaning as Sarah Hoyt indulges in.  This is the attempt to fix the Comments/login nonsense, which first involves clearing the ten thousand-odd spammers and bots, to name but some.

I’ll be busy for a while…

Light, Tunnel At End Of?

Housekeeping, Technology

I know that many of you have had problems commenting on this website, and I’ve been unable to resolve the thing myself.  Ordinarily, Tech Support 2 would have addressed it, but he’s been unable to get to it because for some reason, he prefers to devote more of his time to earning a living to support his family than to take (unpaid) time to address my website’s issues.

Anyway, this is to announce that I have recruited a Brand New Tech Support (TS 3), who is a personal friend and who has very kindly offered to take on the (unpaid but very-much thanked-for) responsibility.  TS 2 will be handing him the keys to the kingdom at some point in the very near future (I hope).

There may be some dislocation involved, in that TS 3 may have to reset the password files, in which case you will have to re-register.  Sorry, but in my defense I can only say “WordPress”.

Then once again you will be free to vent your anger, snarl at the universe, shout at me and post your always-welcome corrections to my all-too frequent errors of fact.

Please be patient while all this comes to pass.

Reader Request

Housekeeping

From Reader RobinB:

“Moving to a smaller apartment and sadly, can’t take my beloved piano with me. I would love to find it a new home where it will be played and cherished. Let me know if you want it or know someone who might be interested.”

Sadly, I have no room for a piano and I can’t play one anyway, so I’m out of the picture.  If anyone else reading this wants a piano, contact me and I’ll forward that onto Robin.