This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
MovableType to be GPLed. I’ll take “Two Years Too Late” for $400, please, Alex.
Suw Charman takes on SixApart over the crappy state of MovableType today. The load caused by comment spam (and their crappy “search” engine) were the main reasons why I defected to my own Django-powered system in December. (Good comments thread on this post too)
The shitty search built into MovableType has been hammering my server. Hopefully this’ll be a decent drop-in replacement.
MT plugin that adds “Deny” entries to your .htaccess file when someone’s clobbering you with comment spam, saving you the CPU cycles. I’ve installed it — if it works, I’ll be giddy as a schoolgirl.
Ooh! I think I know how I’m spending this evening.
MovableType plugin to reconfigure the “fields” for your blog entries. Might install this, just so that I can stop storing the “via” links for Groovy Links in the “Excerpt” field.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.