Sing a song of gratitude

The flurry of test posts you may or may not have noticed on my blog earlier came courtesy of the wise and powerful Jonathan, by whose grace and good will this blog continues to exist. Although my blog continues to look exactly the same, it's actually undergone a fairly radical overhaul at the back end, having shifted up a version or two of Movable Type, the software on which blog runs. I'd actually anticipated that the transition would be a little more involved than it turned out to be, and I doff my hat at Jonathan and his admin skills for putting in the time and effort and for making the switch absolutely painless for me (though I suspect it may not have been from his point of view). At last there's a proper spam filter in place on both comment and trackbacks - you may not have noticed, but if you'd had a trawl through my archives you'd have encountered numerous links to a variety of accursed poker sites, which were rather difficult eradicate on the old version of Movable Type. No more, though! I took a great deal of pleasure in personally eliminating every last reference to texas hold em and it's damnable brethren that I came encountered. Goodbye, good riddance and sayonara to them. Don't bother returning - my spam filter can eat your ilk for breakfast and still have room left over for brunch.

I've decided to leave one of Jonathan's test postings in place to commemorate this fine day. Actually I'm only retaining it because of the reference to Captain iMark. It rather tickled me

Blog course laid in: Second star on the right, then straight on 'til morning.