Archive for January, 2008

Captcha’d my heart

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Blog updates was all I could talk about this weekend – ah, the joy of spam filtration! I was praising the virtues of reCaptcha to Al, who works at the TES, who said they were interested in using the technology there too. When I explained that reCaptcha was a specific form of Captcha technology that [...]

New Year New Blog Template

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Wowzers, it’s happened at last! I’ve updated my WordPress software! Sorry, enough of the exclamation marks, but there’s good reason for all this excitement.
Let me start at the begininning – since Ecstatic Gaucho first came into existence back in December of 2005, it has been using the same software, which is pretty old now. [...]

Folked up

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

An evening at the Islington Folk Club
I’d just sat down and was about to get out my book when the soft wheezing of squeeze boxes drifting down the stairs reminded me I’d come to The Horseshoe for a purpose. Walking upstairs, the lilting melodies sounded like English folk music and the odd snatches of “wassail” [...]