At least one good thing came out of my Apache problems: I’ve learned enough about mod_rewrite to transparently poison my site to the address harvesters out there. I’m still going to leave the basic address-munging that Movable Type does enabled, but it should be even harder to scan these pages in the first place.
As usual, Mark Pilgrim has a more comprehensive description of how to block spambots et al. than I’ve been fumbling with. I’d say that great minds think alike, but, well, look around Dive Into Mark and look around here and make your own judgement.
A small advantage to not having After some simple changes, the Nice Titles on this site should now work in HTML or X(HT)ML. I did find a bug that I’ve been too preoccupied to fix in his original JavaScript, too: it can’t handle the case where there’s an embedded tag, like the Adrants link in this post.application/xhtml+xml working is that Stuart Langridge’s Nice Titles will work on this page. That is, until I can figure out how to make them work in the X(HT)ML DOM, and then they’ll work everywhere in the weblog.
In other news, Eric Meyer has yet another brilliant line of CSS.
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