Finally got round to updating to Drupal 5.1. I've done some pretty thorough testing and it all looks good, but if you notice anything strange please leave me a comment (which are no longer moderated, thanks to the new captcha, we'll see how long that lasts).

Now that I'm up to date expect to see some changes in the near future. There's a new theme in the works and some toys that I've been wanting to roll out, but could only do on 5.x

Caveat: The appearance of said theme and toys depends wholly on how much free time I have in the next few months.

Polytechnic has been coming under a sustained comment spam attack for the past few days and unfortunately, as well as the spam module is doing, it isn't catching all of them. So for the time being, until my workload eases up and I can work out a better plan of defense, I've switched comments to be moderated instead of going live immediately.

This will mean that if you leave a comment there will be a delay before it appears on the site (the delay will be dependant on my free time).

Well, this looks like it all worked ok.

I've decided to take a break from posting for a while. There are some personal things happening that I need to focus my attention on, and this place is a too much of a distraction to handle right now, so I'm putting it in stasis.

Hopefully I'll be back at some point.

So here we go again, this time trying out ecto. I've had this installed for a long time but never got round to firing it up and seeing what it could do. First impressions are that the UI exposes a lot more functionality than Marsedit (not something that I really mind as i like to tinker) but I have that new-software "where the hell is everything?" feeling.

Still, If it manages to post without anything too untoward happening then we're off to a good start.

Update: Well that went swimmingly. Just a few things to tweak in the generated markup, but that's nothing. Ecto has it.