One thing that really annoys me these days is applications which dont support automatic updating.

If you’ve written code to check for new versions (not exactly hard these day), not bothering to go the extra step and write the code that will download the new version for your user is just annoying. Even writing some extra code to optionally install the new version and restart it isn’t exactly rocket science. Grrrr…

Howard Jacobson wrote a irrational and ranting load of old cobblers in the Independent, in response to Richard Dawkins' programs on religion.

He seemed to have completely missed the point. Luckily, Brian Eno appears to have spotted the many flaws in his argument too!

Jonathan has been having trouble with spam in Drupal, and so have I.

I have a nasty feeling that some of the spambots use exploits in Drupal code to circumvent the verification process completely, which might explain how they got round Jonathan’s sneaky Captcha system.

I’ve just been spammed about 50 times by some bloody online poker site. I have comment moderation turned on so they didn’t get posted to the site, but I now have to plod through deleting the things one at a time.

The people that run these spamming operations are total scum, on a par with the touts I saw outside Hyde Park trying to flog Live8 tickets.

Far be it from me to encourage any naughtiness, but I’d really like to see some sort of coalition of good hackers dedicated to searching out the spammers and taking down their sites. Let’s give em a dose of their own medicine…