xenoveritas.org

I feel like I should post something since I haven't in ages. Yes, I'm still alive.

I've been surprisingly busy for the past few weeks (especially considering it's summer), so I've made essentially no progress on anything.

But I do hope to post a demo or screenshots or something for Astral Supremacy since the countdown clock ran out.

I've got a countdown timer running.

I wonder what it could mean?...

This page is valid HTML 4.01 Strict!

...Or, rather, it was valid HTML 4.01 Strict.

Then Drupal got to it, and decided to make it invalid HTML/XHTML Nonstandard Random Useless Crap.

I've really got to start previewing and proof-reading these entry.

This is, yet again, an attempt to write down a policy that's been in effect for quite a while.

Anonymous comments all go to moderation. Logged in users can post without waiting the week or more it takes for me to get around to approving new comments (I'll get to it - really).

All comments are subject to a "lameness filter" that will reject comments based on programmatic filters. These are basically an attempt to block spam without requiring a captcha.

However all comments are subject to deletion based on the following:

You might notice that the site is green today. Well, as it turns out, this site is literally green: Dreamhost is a "green" hosting provider:

Of course, it's only "green" due to carbon offsets, which are sort of a silly thing, but for the sake of claiming to be greener than I really am I'll leave that argument for a later day.

I've put up the Christmas decorations here at xenoveritas.org! The theme will remain up for the remainder of the month.

Dreamhost will be moving the Spacey cluster on December 1st, from approximately 6:00AM to 2:00PM GMT. This will cause this site to be down for the same period of time.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

This recolored version of the main theme will remain up until Halloween ends, so enjoy it while it lasts.

I apologize in advance for the various places where Drupal's colors remain that fail in the inverted Halloween white-text-on-black-background scheme.

This policy has been in effect for a while but never officially typed up. So here's the policy on user accounts:

User accounts can be created by anyone, but may be deleted if:

1. The name is gibberish. Names like "XIjanawWeF" may be deleted at any time.
2. The name references adult content. The assumption here is that the account is being created to comment-spam for porn sites, and therefore is subject to immediate deletion.
3. Any account used for comment-spamming will be immediately deleted.