If you've been checking these pages recently you may have noticed I had the anonymous user commenting switched off. Well, I'd been getting a huge amount of spam to administer.

There's a reason I like Drupal, and that's because it's a community that experiences the same problems. Enter Captcha, the Drupal solution. I've just installed the module, and I'll be trialling the results. Comments are still being administered for anonymous users, as I want to see what the results are like first. Hopefully this will solve the spam problem.

OK, so I had some fun running a Jeopardy style trivia night during the Saturday Feast at Fencing Fest. Just for those who couldn't be there I'm posting the questions.

There were 6 categories, with 5 points in each category. I had fun, and people were still fuming about the questions the next day.

So without further ado, onto the questions....

Last weekend I was up in Brisbane teaching Bolognese material at Fencing Fest 6. It's a lovely little event, and this year moved to the Vigoro Club in East Ipswich. Up to now it's been held at the Riverhaven Hall in Lutwyche. It's the first Fencing Fest that the MediumMe Slugboy has travelled to, so it was fun to see him playing against people not from Sydney. He actually did the best of all the Sydney folk playing in the tournament, and bounced afterwards since he beat Owain (one of the Guildmasters in Canberra).

I've been having some problems with Marozzo's dagger section, specifically Capitolo 54 & 57 dealing with the defence of the thrust.

The translation by Bill Wilson over at marozzo.org just isn't making sense, so I've been redoing it.

Well it had to eventually happen. My Palm E2 has given up the ghost, and attempts to resuscitate have been unsuccessful. Looks like I'm going to have to see if I can get it fixed, but the data is probably gone now as I've gotten slack about syncing it to the Kubuntu PC. The non-volatile memory was great, but it spoiled me after the Palm 102.

The times I'm missing it the most is in traffic driving between home and work. It's helped stave off the frustration at those times as I read my ebooks. Reading them on the PC screen just isn't the same, or as convenient.

First time blogger, long time web site owner... :-)

Thought it was time to roll out the personal blog. If you've been paying attention you will have noticed the Dardi book is growing a little. Well it'll grow in time as I work out how I want to write the material. I'll be posting any radical insights here over time as well.

I'm happy with the layout now, so it's time to document what I've done.

Firstly, the Header region.

If it's not obvious, I'm using the default bluemarine theme. Under Home » Administer » Site building » Themes » bluemarine I've turned OFF the logo, site name and slogan options. The Mission statement is turned on, as this displays the welcome information on the home page. You enter that information through the Home » Administer » Site Administration » Site Information page. I've also got the Primary and Secondary links turned on.

Well we've moved to the new server, and have got the site running on a new CMS.

For those interested, the platform is Drupal 6.10, and I'm quite happy with it.

There's some new features, such as blogs and books, which will be available to authorised users.