Okay, so I didn't post this to announce the new project.
The sims2 for S60I posted it to announce that a new project exists.
I'm a teasing bitch, aren't I? Mwuhahaha!
<cryptic grin>
In all seriousness, I hope to have it announced by June (although I'll also be doing three shows in a row, so we'll see how well that goes).
I can say this much, though: this will be a major addition to the Empire. If you want any other questions answered, feel free to ask...
If you'll recall, I recently celebrated the liberation of blog.evula.net from the oppressive regime of comment spam. My primary method of elimination was to close up older blogs and posts from comments, which has worked wonders; spam has taken a significant drop since then.
However, the adversary of ping spam was still a very vivid specter on the horizon. It was confined to a single blog (Audiophile's), and while this meant the struggle lacked the intensity of the comment spam battle, it was still rigorous, by which I of course mean mind-numbingly dull and tedious.
Audiophile has 194 entries; I manually closed each and every one of them, unchecking the "Allow pings" box at the same time. With that mighty feat completed (use a loose definition for "mighty". Use a loose definition for "feat," while you're at it), it was a simple matter of running the Blacklist over the pings. I've long since given up adding those URLs to the blacklist proper; it's far easier to just tell it to look for all pings and delete them en masse (as Audiophile and myself were the only two people to ever use pings, there was no danger in deleting anything worthwhile).
With the bastard scourge of Ping Spam obliterated, blog.evula.net is now, officially, 100% free of spam URLs in any way, shape, or form. Even if I fail to check the Blacklist every day, there are a fraction of available topics for bots to use, which means that spam attacks are (a) much smaller, and (b) much more concentrated, making it easier to delete.
(I like this entry's current title much better than my original one of "double-win". Much grander.)
After a massive push at getting on top of the spam situation, I can properly declare blog.evula.net to be utterly and completely free from comment spam.
Not only that, but the rate of spam being introduced to the system has dropped dramatically since I closed up all those old posts. Gee, I wonder if the two events are related at all...
The only spam that remains is on Audiophile's blog, in the form of ping spam. I'm trying to delete it all en masse, but he's been ignoring it completely (I've emailed him about it, but didn't get a response). Oh well. I did change his blog config, though; specifically, I checked the "Email new TrackBack pings?" checkbox, which means his inbox should get inundated whenever his blog does too. :)