Well it's been a long time since posting, partly because I took a long time to upgrade the site to the new version of Drupal. That's more or less done now. I've also installed Mollom, a system that only presents a captcha for comments if it suspects spam. And finally I've entirely rewritten the photoblog module. It's perfect except for one small thing: no photos. Ah well: I'll figure it out...

In the meanwhile, a Summer of writing and conferences is coming to an end and an Autumn of teaching beckons. So today's task is to write up a few module outlines.

And in the world at large?

People who spend their lives impugning the character of teenage mothers hector us about privacy as they set about demanding that Sarah Palin's daughter be turned into a future divorcee. At least, I suppose, she's not gay (or even worse, gay, Irish and ineligible for equal treatment). More here.