Gotta Captcha'm all!

So after deleting a grand total of over 27000 (27 THOUSAND!) spam comments of porn, drugs, and lord knows what spam links, I've finally gotten around to adding a captcha to the comments section. Take that, spambots! Take that, my hit rate count!

I predict that my advertising will now drop substantially past it's 4 cents a day rate now that I have cut off the only people visiting the site. Oh well.

You may now browse, spam and porn free, my friends.

Spam Comments

Urgh. So I decide to check in on the comments to make sure that no one's been posting spam in them in the past few months. Guess what? They did! Faantastic! Nearly 400 comments filled with linkspam have been deleted. Fun stuff.

That does explain the odd flow of traffic to a site that hasn't been updated properly in a long time...

Jerks.

Moving on Up

Alright. I haven't updated in a bit, but I promise I will soon, once I have some things worth updating. I've got some poem ideas juggling around in my head, if I'll give them heed, and a sketch waiting to be monumentally cleaned up (I cannot, in fact draw hands or feet in perspective that well).

Hey, if anyone out there is playing Mabinogi, then look out for Reilaos on Mari- that's me.

And now you know what's been distracting me from anything productive.

Did you know that this, a site -titled- asterism, only shows up on the third page of google results for it? It's not even the one at the new, proper domain, but the old one at the X10Hosting subdomain! But it used to be on page for, and now it's on the middle of page 3. Look on the bright side- we're moving on up.

I'm think I might also eventually recode the silly PHP/MySQL tables in the content management system so that media and the gallery pages are the same one, since the code's more or less exactly the same...

Domain has been registered!

So yeah. I looked at what little advertising revenue I get, and decided that I could just barely not break even to jump for a decent domain name. Seeing as asterism.com cost ten THOUSAND dollars, and asterism.net is in japanese (I think. Don't remember), I settled for 'www.asterismstudios.com'.

And after filling out a few forms and waiting for GMail to get over whatever error it was having this morning, and then waiting for everything to settle down into the new configurations, my own Asterism site is now comfortably settled as Asterism Studios. This may or may not be a fallacy, depending on your definition of studios. And this may or may not call for a change in banners to reflect the URL. I hope not, though.