Technology

I’ve now moved the “sermons” section of my old website onto this new site.

I’ve taken advantage of doing this to get a number of things done:

As promised, this site now has a blogroll on it.

Truth be told, I read more blogs than this. I’ll add more later. But now I’ve got the structures in place, that’s easy.

When I first posted about my new site layout it was a brief post because I simply needed to make the announcement.

I promised more explanation for those who were interested, so here it is.

One hit on the website Edible Words came from a search on live.com.

The visitor was looking for answers to the question Was John Calvin a Mason.

They ended up reading Matthew Mason‘s fine article on John Calvin‘s theology of the Lord’s Supper.

Honestly – who needs fiction?

Just a quick post to state the obvious – I’ve given my blog an overhaul.

Technical details to follow later, but for now please leave me a comment to let me know what you think – especially if you have any problems.

I while ago, I had to turn off anonymous comments, due to the volumes of spam. Now I’ve found a way to implement a CAPTCHA, I’m keen to see if I can have anonymous comments on again.

Bye for now – more later!

Microsoft Word has, for as long as I remember, had a feature whereby spelling can be checked. A red squiggly line underneath the text indicates spelling errors.

Then they added the option

Technical post.

For several years I have used the free analytics services of SiteMeter. Basically, they allow you to analyse how many hits your website receives, and you can look at things like what country people visit from, what web browser they use. There is nothing sinister about such data – it is freely available to the owner of any and every website you visit – it’s in the server logs.

Slightly technical article here, but I post it just in case anyone else has been getting infuriated by the same thing I have been infuriated by.

Sorry everyone

I've just had to delete 280 spam comments, going back only a week or so. MovableType has an excellent junk comment filter - 280 comments got caught and marked as junk, and I only got notified by e-mail of 10 comments that were spam. Still - I have to glance down the junk comment list to make sure I've not deleted a genuine comment.

So, hate to do it, but I've had to go to authenticated-only commenting.

Movable Type (of which this blog is an instance) uses TypeKey for this. All you do is create a TypeKey account. You then sign in and have the option to stay signed in for a fortnight. You're then allowed to comment again. As a bonus, you only have to type your name once.

Sorry about that - I'll look into introducing some human-only security feature to weed out the spambots, then I should be able to go allow anonymous comments again.

You have to love Microsoft Word’s “smart tags” feature.