More and more of the comment spam is starting with complements. It'd be nice if I thought there was anyone actually writing them.

I'll get stuff like "Great site! Love the hard work!" followed by a collection of spam links.

Yeah. I'm going to fall for that. Pull a random complement out of a database to win over website operators from around the world.

The smartest ones are those that have just the complement and hide the spam link in their username. Sorry. "Like your site!" linked to "buy-my-viagacra-now.info" is really going to sneak past.

There's a reason why all comments have to be admin approved. I've lost count of the number of comment spams I've deleted.

Apache's SSI documentation helpfully doesn't explain how to use their <!--#config timefmt=""--> directive to modify the date format. Instead they refer you to the documentation from the C runtime they use to format the date. Really helpful to people who just want to muck with HTML, there.

So, here's the basics. The string you specify can contain "special" sequences that start with the percent character (%) that indicate the start of a time field. Each instance of these sequences gets replaced as follows:

%a

A three-letter abbreviation for the day of the week.

I found a couple of "gotchas" with installing Drupal using a PostgreSQL backend. Otherwise it's fairly straight forward.

The first problem you're likely to encounter is that your new database won't have the "plpgsql" language defined, so the creation script will fail. You simply need to "CREATE LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';" or create the language through your admin tool before running the database.pgsql script. You must create the language using a superuser account, which brings us to Likely Problem 2.

Most people will create a "normal" Drupal user account to access their Drupal database. This user can't CREATE LANGUAGE like superusers can. So you might be tempted to run the creation script via a superuser account (like postgres).

Does Brittanica have a three page article on Truthiness? I doubt it. How about a slightly longer article on The Colbert Report itself? And I'll bet the Encyclopaedia Brittanica is missing a list of recurring elements on the Colbert Report as well.

I'm beginning to think that someone in Comcast's advertising department doesn't like Comcast that much.

First, there was the "Comcast Highspeed Internet: Humiliate yourself faster!" ad. It showed how with Comcast Highspeed Internet, you could make a fool of yourself through your webcam at higher resolution and faster download speeds than normal dialup.

Then, we have the "monkey with a sledgehammer" ad, which tells you that their anti-spyware and scam protection software is like a monkey with a sledgehammer, complete with video of a monkey running around with a (rubber) sledgehammer.