Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
You’ve probably noticed that annotations are looking rather odd at the moment — the text is too large and there are no paragraph breaks. I’m not sure what’s up — Movable Type isn’t formatting them correctly all of a sudden — and for the moment I’m stumped.
I’ve asked the Movable Type folks for advice, and I’ll have another look when I have time later, but please bear with me for now… Thanks.
1 comment | Permalink | Monday 6 March 2006 | Housekeeping
Thanks for being patient over the last few days of nastily unreadable annotations. I’ve finally found the problem and everything should be working fine (well, as fine as it was last week, anyway). I’d changed a setting in Movable Type without realising what other effects it might have. If you want to know more about the cause read on here.
Be the first to comment | Permalink | Thursday 9 March 2006 | Housekeeping
If it’s not one thing it’s another… All the Encyclopedia pages have a section at the bottom that shows when that person, building, or whatever is mentioned in the diary. These links are generated automatically by Movable Type’s TrackBack facility. It’s been a bit flaky at times but has mostly worked.
However, like annotations, TrackBacks are susceptible to spammers. Although Movable Type does a good job of filtering the spam from the real requests for links, the spammers still try. Every time they “ping” the TrackBack script it causes a little bit of work for the web server.
Recently the script received more than 20,000 hits in a single hour, causing the computer that my websites share with other peoples’ websites to slow to a crawl. Understandably, the company that runs the web server disabled the TrackBack script. It’s probably best if I leave it that way for good.
I’ll try to find time to write some code to keep the Encyclopedia references up to date, but for a while I’m afraid they won’t be updating. Sorry!
Be the first to comment | Permalink | Thursday 16 March 2006 | Housekeeping