Dum Pendebat Filius

The long-awaited vacation is finally here, readers: the first leg of the journey starts tonight, with a flight to the Horn of Africa. I’ll be back, with pictures from Ethiopia and Egypt, during the first week of June.

I might as well make it official: this blog’s going on hiatus for a few weeks, readers. I plan on returning sometime during the first week of June. Stay tuned…

I’m headed down to southeastern Virginia, chers lecteurs, to visit family. Do not expect much activity here until after Labor Day.

The troll formerly known as hanumizzle now posts as elfasbrynja (Elven coat of mail) on dumpendebat.net.

Upgrading from WordPress 2.0.7 to the new 2.1 release seems to have screwed things up here. I’ve had to make changes to my stylesheet just to keep things looking the way they were (why??), and the sidebar is screwed up, too (still working on that one). I’m a little bit annoyed, but these [...]

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0. (You won’t notice anything different; what’s new is all on the back end.) If you have trouble with comments or anything, drop me a line: dpf at dumpendebat.net.

This bizarre instance of comment spam was caught by my spamfilter system a few minutes ago:
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Sorry, readers, but there’s been too much going on lately. I’ll return soon from this brief and unplanned hiatus.

That’s supposed to mean “bandwidth thieves.” (S’il y a un lecteur francophone qui pourrait me donner la traduction française du mot anglais “bandwidth,” je serais content de savoir ce que c’est.) I’ve been having a problem with “hot-linking” recently.
I started seeing heavy traffic in my HTTP logfiles coming out of various Internet forums [...]

I just upgraded my WordPress software (the blogging platform that “powers” this site) from 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2. If you see something wacky or something that looks “broken” (other than my prose style or my reasoning skills, that is), please let me know.