I’ve removed the moderation requirements for commenting, as I prefer to give commenters instant gratification. Plus, my comment spam is near zero and Current Config tends not to elicit much fiery debate.

And now for my posts about Israel and abortion…

So, the site you see before you is my first bold step into the world of WordPress, at the urging of my good friend and personal software wonk, Steve Laniel, who also very generously sacrificed over four hours of his time to help me with the not-so-seamless conversion from Movable Type.

A few notes: The new ‘design’ is not an actual design, but more a placeholder while I learn the ropes of WP’s templates. Also, my moving to WordPress has more to do with my lack of technical skills and my personal resources than any statement on my part about Movable Type’s fitness as a platform. It was mostly driven by the fact that the spam problems I was having were becoming ridiculous and I knew for a fact that I could solve them with WP.

And finally, there are likely many bugs and dead links. If you see anything awry with the site, please drop me a line at chrisr@currentconfig.com and I’ll get right on fixing them.

I tend to do these things a bit ‘bare-assed’ instead of running a dev site like a normal, decent website proprietor. Thanks for your patience and understanding with the changes.

The Movable Type upgrade… did not go so well. So, here we are back at 3.34, which makes up for its lack of newness by not causing total site-wide chaos.

C’est la vie.

At least now I can post some new items I’ve been thinking about. Thanks again to my site mechanic, Steve, who promises to herald a new age for Current Config in the near future.

After some recent “life events,” I got a little waylaid in my efforts to make Current Config super fantastic internets. Expect more very soon.

Now, I must be going. I have a horse to catch.

As promised, Steve Laniel delivers. Hopefully, the spam will be diminished. We’ll see. Either way, MT version 3.34 is cooler. And faster, even.

The parasites of the web are hammering the site with comment spam, which I’m deleting in droves. I guess somebody got a spamming company for Christmas. I may need to shut off commenting for a while before I upgrade and take more comprehensive steps to reduce the amount of garbage collecting on this site, with the help of my man.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Dear Spam-bot writers, I hope you all get cancer of the eyeballs and die. Sincerely, Chris

PS: And so does everyone else.

My old host went belly-up, so I had to transfer Current Config to a new host. We’ve been ironing out problems since then.* I think things are good now.

Stay tuned for more posts and the R Design site, coming very soon.

Apologies to those directed to the R Design site without success, and those trying to post comments and were “forbidden”. It was nothing personal, I swear.

*Meaning I watched while my man worked things out.

If you were trying to comment and couldn’t, well, now you can. Post away!

I’m going to be messin’ with the design of Current Config for a little while, so hold on to your…eyeballs. Hopefully, we’ll all come out of this for the better.

Courtesy of my capable and generous host, Current Config is now on MT v 3.14.