I'm making a few changes to the site here and there. Just little things, like making the news url's nicer (thank god for mod_rewrite). I've also put a spam filter on the comments which uses Akismet. If you get any false negatives when trying to write a comment, drop me a mail at "you told me that i am a spammer at growse dot com". The mail address is obviously obscurfated to defeat those pesky spammers, but if you replace the relevant words with symbols and spaces with something like a "_", then you'll be fine.
I thought about going with KittenAuth, but Akismet is more transparent. If it proves problematic, then I'll switch.
Other changes are more randomness on the front page and the creation of a Projects page. This is still being put together, but I've started a few development projects recently and will be putting those details up on that page. I ditched the about page, as it was a bit pointless. Things I still have to put in is RSS and possibly some sort of breadcrumb, but we'll see about those.
That time of year has rolled around and suddenly I'm a year older. Which is fun, because it means people buy me things and I like that. :-)
For the first time in a while, the weather is looking decidedly grey here. It'll probably rain later, which is great because rain here is unlike British rain. British rain is usually a bit soggy, grey and generally half-hearted. When it rains here, you're soaked if you stand outside for more than 10 seconds. It's proper rain and makes going anywhere without an umbrella a true adventure.
Also, I've decided to drop one of my two current projects before it's even really began. It was going to be a good online photo manager, that I could use to store my originals and provide user-based or level-based access to different resolutions and albums. However, I decided to drop it, mainly because I found a good commercial solution for my photo storing needs, which handles web publishing. Also, there was the small issue of the fact that my originals directory is about 4.5Gb, and I don't have that much space on my host. It's a shame, because it looked like a good challange, but handling thousands of large (up to 70Mb) images just isn't that practical on a website without building a largish backend infrastructure. My other project, PSPlant is still going strong and I'll be putting some info up about that shortly.
Anyways, must get back to work. Inexplicably, I'm using Access.
Couple of changes have happened - I've fixed the annoying "image appearing halfway down the page" bug in the photos section, and I've increased the size and quality of the thumbnails. Made them square too :)