Latest addition to the family

Here is Oliver, the latest addition to the Curnow family. We have had pets before. But never a dog! We’ve had goldfish, guinnea pigs and rabbits (x4 who all died) but never a dog. Miriam is the youngest Curnow and really wanted rabbits nearly ten years ago....

Update on Spam blocking

A few days ago I posted regarding how good I found MT-Blacklist, a spam blocking plugin for the Moveable Type publishing system. Well thanks to a Bleeding Edge Entry I found out about SpamLookup. Developed by Brad Choate, SpamLookup is actually a combination of...

The Breast Blog

Regular readers of chriscurnow.com will know that one of our goals is to support greater mutual understanding between men and women (and peoples of all kinds, races and backgrounds for that matter.) I have recently come across The Breast Blog – an enterprise of...

Go away spammers

A by-product of the upgrade to the new server was opening chriscurnow.com up to trackback spammers. Oh dear, I was getting 20 – 30 a day. Moveable Type v3 certainly makes it easier to delete trackback spam but it doesn’t stop it from getting through. When...

Photo Album is back up

The Photo Album is back up after the upgrade to the new server. It only took me two weeks (or was it three.) It actually only took a couple of hours of actual time. I didn’t want to reload all the photos, so a lot of time was spent in UNIX, looking around to see...