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I think I’ve finally fixed the Archive List display for the blog. I should have RTFM because it was all in there. Basically I had to do some hacking to circumvent a Nucleus function that generates archive links. It would be a lot easier if I didn’t run Nucleus in a sub-dir.

For some reason there has been an enormous increase in SPAM activity lately. Since the Blacklist plugin has been discontinued, one is forced to seek other means to fight SPAM. While still employing a crippled Blacklist, I also installed Comment Control. It works by requiring moderation of comments after a period of xx days. A “captcha” is a possibility as well of course but I don’t like it. Regular users shouldn’t be burdened with the effects of spam. Closing old items is possible too of course but that is no fun either.

Also, I added, temporarily, the FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monsters) banner found over at Karma. All in all a very successful internet spoof of “intelligent” design that is spreading like a wildfire and becoming part of the Wired culture.
Technical note: My banner was run through Web Image Guru in order to make it PNG8 with palette alpha. The original was PNG24 I believe. That reduced the banner from 12kb to 4kb and makes it a little easier to live with.

CSS:[css]#fsm {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
z-index:5000;
cursor: pointer;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’gfx/fsm.png’);
}
#fsm[id] {
position: fixed;background-image: url(”gfx/fsm.png”);
}[/css]HTML:
[html]

[/html]
The URL part could for instance link to the wikipedia entry or the official site.

IMAGE:
http://battleangel.org/gfx/fsm.png
(PNG 24 color limited with alpha, 5936 bytes)

[html]

[/html]