This blog has always received a stream of spam comments, generally consisting of easily-recognized banal statements about how the post was really helpful, or well-written, or some such other positive comment, but with no actual reference to the topic of…
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Some Comedy Translation
If you’ve been reading this blog much at all, you may have noticed a link in the sidebar “En Français S.V.P. !”. This invokes Google Translate on the current page, and from there as you follow links, you get translations…
Server Migration Complete (?)
I think I have everything migrated to our new web and mail servers now. Please e-mail us (!) at info@papertrail.ca if you encounter any problems.
E-mail server migration
As I mentioned in the previous post, we are changing the servers we use for e-mail and our web site and blog. We have changed over the e-mail server now, and our regular addresses info@papertrail.ca and orders@papertrail.ca should continue to…
Server migration and resultant outages
We’re in the process of moving our web site and e-mail to a new hosting service in the cloud. They are currently hosted at my day job and I’m used to managing them with command-line tools and direct editing of…
Blog (and website) more fixed
Warning: Extreme Web geek talk ahead! Well, at the time of the last post I thought I had everything on our website working again, but I was wrong. There appears to be a bug in WordPress (which has nothing to…
Blog fixed (and a cute kitten)
It has been a while since I posted to this blog, so now that our server is all updated and I have WordPress working again I have a bit of catching up to do. For now, I offer cute kitten…
Blog broken
Our blog is currently broken. You can see the summary of recent posts but individual posts and pages return server errors. We are switching to a new server, replacing Apache with OpenBSD’s httpd which is far less versatile in terms…
In case you’re wondering why I don’t answer some of your comments…
I just noticed that, once I approve someone for comments, I receive absolutely no notification of any new comments they place. So if you’ve been commenting on posts here and wondering about my silence, it’s because I didn’t realize there…
A little blogging trouble
Over the weekend my WordPress version was updated under me from 3.5.1 to 3.8 (actually the entire system was upgraded). The person who did it did not realize that I had my own code changes to reduce spam comment postings,…
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