Per the overview page I wrote, there have been a whopping 2 spam comments in the past 3 days. (And they were on my blog; I haven’t moderated anything in a while, which means they got caught automatically.)

I’ve very enthusiastic about eliminating spam, even working on other peoples’ sites to keep spam at bay. But c’mon, this is no fun. A few hacked-together bits of code are all it takes?

For reasons I still don’t fully understand, the server locked up hard. Compounding things, it wouldn’t boot.

LayeredTech generously gave me a couple free hours on their spiffy KVM-over-IP system and burned me a LiveCD allowing me to go in and fix the problem… An fsck of everything didn’t turn up anything too big, but I ended up re-installing grub, and all was well. (I did take advantage of the time to run some nice thorough filesystem scans while the filesystems were unmounted, but everything was in order.)

Now I just have to come back up from my score of -99 in the pool!

As you’ll surely notice when you log in, the interface looks quite different. I’ve updated to WPMU 1.5.1, based on the 2.5-branch of WordPress. So far, so good; let me know if you find brokenness. Kyle could probably speak better than I can on what this version improves. (Hint hint, Kyle. ;))