Yes, this site was down for a couple of days. I don’t know why (Darin does, but he’s off “making a living” or something, so he can’t comment). True, my site wasn’t available to you…but it wasn’t available to spammers either! Always a silver lining!

Of course, now they’re back too. Sigh.

Please let this work. Please let this work. Please let this work.

Update: Okay, this has been Bad Day at Black Rock. I finally went thermonuclear on Movable Type and removed: my MT install, my MT archives, and my MT databases. Things are much, much better—for example, new comments actually post now—but they’re still not perfect. I am sweating this hard.

(No one else’s update seems to have gone so horribly, irretrievably wrong. I don’t know what happened.)

Update 2: I’m having rebuilding problems with the site, but from what I can tell on the MT boards, that’s a real common problem. I have the fix, but when I try to update the file on the site and then rebuild, I get an error message having to do with /xCA. Which I think is an encoding error. Which is undoubtedly something Darin can help with.

Originally MT-Blacklist required the Perl module Storable, which we didn’t have installed and I didn’t want to mess around with our server install of Perl. The newest version of Blacklist lets you work around Storable with an extlib called YAML.

I have Blacklist. Finally.

(I’ve gotten 200+ spam comments in the past day or so. I was starting to loathe going near my website again. Now, not so much.)