I have some scum spamming the blog with trackback comment spam. You don’t have to worry about seeing it; I have a plug-in that eliminates most of it, and anything that slips through is placed in the moderation queue anyway where I manually delete it before it appears on the blog, but it is really annoying anyway.

Why is it exactly that this slime needs to steal the resources of others?

Speaking of bothersome, I am going to have to eventually go through the whole update procedure again on the underlying software that operates this blog. Unlike the bulletin board software used on BobEdwards.Info and the Nostalgia Pages Forums which is designed to be painfully simple to patch, even with heavily-altered boards, this software requires a complete shift-out. The way I did it the last time was to duplicate the blog and the databases, work through the alterations on that one, and then “swap out” the namespace. It should be completely transparent to you, the reader, but if in the next week or so things look odd or stop working, please use the contact button on the sidebar to let me know.

In working on the photos from the recent Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention, it’s become painfully clear I am going to need to reorganize the way I handle those as well, creating a database instead of manually building the tables to display the photos. (Resizing the photos and writing the captions is the easy part…it’s building the tables, sizing the windows, and all the presentation stuff that takes so much time I tend to find other things to do midway through.) I doubt I’ll get it done before these photos are up (which means they’ll take a while to get here), but I’ll see if I can get the routines written and tested before the Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention in the fall.