Pardon Our Dust

(Update: the spam filter does seem to be picky, so please do let us know if your comments don’t come through. Unless you’re a spammer, I mean.)

We were temporarily down, after apparently being hacked into. Currently trying to upgrade to fix things. Patience!

Helping

We’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. This should mean, among other things, that we can retrieve comments that were mistakenly deleted by an overzealous spam filter. Let us know if anything seems to not work.

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30 thoughts on “Pardon Our Dust”

  1. Helper cat? Is this the beginning of the rebirth of Cosmic Variance as “Cosmic Variance Can Has Cheezburger”?

  2. Tom, we’ve never asked for contributions, although maybe someday we will. Or perhaps some tiny ads along the sidebar? But really, the fame and adoration of our vast reading public is more than enough reward.

  3. WordPress has a plugin called “Akismet” that seems to work. We used to use SpamKarma, but it ate up too many CPU cycles.

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  5. Does this mean that if I wrote one of those comments that was deleted by your overzealous spam filter, that I should resend?

  6. Yep. It will continue to be possible that comments will be eaten; but now, if you let us know, we should be able to recover them.

  7. Your overzealous spam filter picked up one comment of mine for the thread: Open Systems (this happened before). I embedded two links in those sentences, so maybe that was too much?

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