So after a few days offline, wondering whether I should come back at all, and finally persuaded to do so by some lovely emails from people who missed the site, I spent much of today repairing the damage. I exported all of my entries and stripping out the spammed comments.

A comment on every entry for three years takes a long time to sort out, though. Hours, in fact.

Then I deleted the original blog, after saving my template files, created a new one and imported everything again. Re-entered the templates, did a complete rebuild, and then sat down to post this entry.

I didn’t get very far with it before getting tied up in other things, so here I am, gone 1am tomorrow morning, finishing it off.

It’s put everything into perspective, though. There I was, complaining about the odd bit of spamming in my comments and getting thoroughly annoyed by it when I get a massive attack on Thursday morning. 04h12, to be precise, someone (or should I say something as it was undoubtedly automated) starts posting comments about Britney Spears, bad girls and porn. One on every entry. Four and a half hours later, as I arrive in the office, my mailbox starts filling up with the comments and the only reason they missed posting to the last dozen or so entries was that I blocked the originating IP address right away.

Of course, it was too late by then.

So, I’m looking on it as an opportunity. I’ve upgraded Movable Type, and I’ve had a think about what I really want to do with the site. I think it needs a bit more focus than it has had. Nobody is interested in random ramblings about what I get up to day to day (so I won’t mention dad arriving today, the cinema this evening, the cat suddenly taking to sl… OK - I’ll stop).

In short, there will be some changes.

In the meantime, I could do with getting some sleep. I have to do a radio thingie in the morning some time between 11h and 11h30 on LBC. They wanted me to go in and do it in the studio, but I haven’t got time for that, so I said they could have me on the phone if they wanted.

Seems they did.

I got sent a nice Boots detox kit in the office in the days I was offline. Well, I assume it is nice. It smells of strawberries, which is kind of appealing. I think I could do with using it right about now.

I feel woefully unhealthy. That might not change until the beginning of March.

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