Brilliant Corners

Alan Taylor just launched The Big Picture over at the Boston Globe’s website. Fantastic news photos from around the world.

At one point I had grand ambitions for the domain/site railstips.org. Sadly, I never acted on those ambitions. I kept it updated at first, only to eventually stop all activity. So, I figured that someone else could do something better with it.

I posted to the site asking if anyone wanted to take it over, and John Nunemaker took the bait. The transfer is complete, and already the site looks to be on the right track. And I just now noticed that John has posted his plans for the site. I'm now positive he’s the right person for the job.

Good luck with railstips.org, John!

Until I can write some sort of anti-comment spam code for this weblog, I have all submitted comments go into a queue where I can approve them. I even have this right above the submit button:

Until I do a little more work, all comments will be screened; your comment won’t show up right away.

But still, I get comment spam. I don’t get very much, but there are a few folks peddling certain pharmaceutical products that try and sneak some comments in. If they did it only once, and then left me alone after realizing that their comments weren’t making it through, I could understand. But they come back, time and again, and leave the same annoying comments that will never get approved.

This isn’t the worst of it. I also have a comment spammer or two who insists on posting very odd diatribes. No links, no email address, nothing of any particular worth. Just rambles like this:

I've more or less been doing nothing worth mentioning, but eh. My life’s been really bland today…

I've received a few variations of that kind of comment above. So very strange. Surely I'm not the only one getting this kind of odd comment spam, am I?

I have yet again relaunched this weblog. This time I've done away with weblog applications that others have written and have rolled my own (yet again).

This time I've written a very simple weblog app with Ruby on Rails. It doesn’t do anything fancy, but that’s all right with me. I needed a simple project to get my Rails chops back in shape.

There are still a few things that may break or not work, but I think I've taken care of all the important stuff. If you do get an error or anything, please let me know.