I closed a loophole in the comments code that was allowing shady characters to spam your Fotolae, even if you had comments set to "members-only". Grrr.

I also did some profiling and deleted 218 such comments posted since December 15, 2006. This may have inadvertently deleted some real, anonymous comments, but I doubt it.

If you notice new comment spam on your entries, please post a message to one of my entries to let me know. They weren't posting to any of mine.

And happy 2007, Fotola!!!

We had a big power failure at the data center on Wednesday last, which is why Fotola was down for a while last week. Unfortunately, this ended up corrupting the database a little, to the point where no one could log in. And I was out of town, so I didn't notice.

The problem has been corrected, and Fotola should be working fine now.

Server upgraded today with two new drives (see previous news entry). As a bonus, my excellent systems engineer figured out how to do the upgrade without installing a new OS, so the entire thing only took 3 hours instead of 8-12.