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OK, I’ve upgraded to v2.4 of pMachine and enabled captchas. You have to type in a random word-number combo to post a comment so I hope that’s not too much of a hassle……..

The other option is to disable this feature for registered members so the two or three people that still leave comments please feel free to let me know if you’d like me to do this.  You’d still be able to leave comments even if unregistered but registered members wouldn’t have to put the captchas in.

We’ll see if this stops the spam blogging – I was receiving one every 9 minutes 🙁

….have been supended but that doesn’t seem to be stopping the flood of blog spam 🙁

I’ll try introducing captchas tonight……..

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I got an email the other day stating that the software I use to run this weblog, pmachine has been discontinued.  I have become increasingly frustrated with it over the last few months and have been looking around for a replacement blog/CMS tool to replace it anyway.

Luckily the same people that bought out pmachine brought out a brand new product about a year ago called expressionengine which was built from the ground up and is much more powerful.  Unfortunately it costs (at a minimum) 75 USD……. On the other hand I paid 45 for pmachine and have got loads of use out of it.  Another plus is that ee has a great pmachine import script so the 670 odd entries can be moved.  I have a test site running here. One of the things I like is captchas with allow you to take steps towards eliminating blog spam (grrrr) without requiring registration.  Have a look at the bottom of the comments on the test site and you’ll see what I mean.

Anyway, it’s a 14 day trial so we’ll see how it goes

stac?ca?to

adj.

1. Music. Cut short crisply; detached: staccato octaves.

2. Marked by or composed of abrupt, disconnected parts or sounds.

I’ve decided that this is the way I write.  Always have…..

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My email now works!  It seems that all I had to do was reboot my system which must have cleared something from somewhere……….

If that’s right then everything is transferred to Verve – phew

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So it seems that I can receive mail (but not send), log in to my control panel (but not add entries) and people can’t leave comments.  All very strange.

Entries can be made by logging into the subdomian though (which is what I’m doing….)

Oh well If you want to comment or say hi email me

Update: I tracked it down to a cookies issue in Zone Alarm (or any other firewall product) It seems that if you turn off cookie control (eek!) or allow all cookies from this domain the everything is fine…….

to http://www.marcandvic.com on verve

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Expect strange things to happen over the next few days……… My hosting contract at nexpoint is coming to an end (yay!) and I have set the process underway to move marcandvic.com to my other host verve (so I now host marcandvic.com, inkdemon.com, holgability.com and aboutlight.com all in the same account! )

I have the site up and running on http://marcandvic.aboutlight.com/marc/blog/ and this will be the last entry on this host until things straighten themselves out.  Either way I’ll be continuing on the above link so you can either find me there or the transition will be smooth and you won’t even know I’ve moved (yeah right!)

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