I just cracked 6000 spam mes­sages.  I can’t wait until I start run­ning my own mail server locally; I really really really want to see how much using all that sam­ple mate­r­ial will stop dead!

Per­haps when iiNet bring their iiSLAM’s to Kens­ing­ton, NSW… and if they keep the “test­ing” unlocked backchan­nel enabled!  Haha, sym­met­ric “A“DSL — Got to love it.

In other news, I’ve decided that I prob­a­bly won’t be both­er­ing with mod_rewrite on this iter­a­tion of the web­site, because I think it’s going to get dumped some­time in the near future any­way… that said, Google actu­ally seems to be index­ing down to my perma­links with­out any dif­fi­cul­ties anyway!

I’m cur­rently fail­ing to see the ben­e­fit of using my own news/blog script over some­thing more advanced, and would pre­fer to invest time in other projects (specif­i­cally, to enhance and extend the con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem to bet­ter sup­port CSS, XHTML, seman­tics and improve authen­ti­ca­tion and user man­age­ment, amongst many other things) rather than re-doing what’s been done before, and bet­ter, with­out see­ing any real tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit for it.  And yes, I do know there are bet­ter, more advanced, more usable (open-source) CMS offer­ings out there.  Inte­gra­tion of fea­tures offered by those prod­ucts is some­thing that is being explored, but until that is fea­si­ble, devel­op­ment of this one will continue…

Despite what­ever nasty things peo­ple might have to say about Word­Press, the more I see, the more I like, so nyah.

At the minute, design and stan­dards are some­thing I’m far more pas­sion­ate about, anyway.