The people at Larvatus Prodeo are under attack from a spambot legion. They have sandbagged the place, donned the camo helmets with bits of twig and leaves on the top and have shouldered the spud gun:

Gun by Trevor Hoppen
Yes, you are correct, the barrel is a Malvern Star top tube.
The Larvyprodders wish it to be […]

Jon (our tech guy) is doing an upgrade and bug fix this morning so if the site disappears for a moment or two, don’t worry. Adding comments should be fine. If fellow contributors are planning on posting anything though, it might be best to hold off until the work is done. I’ll […]

After reading a few more comments around the place, I realised that I should have linked the last post about blogging to a piece that appeared over at LP a few days ago.
It’s apparent that some people think of a blog as a brand name or some other kind of commodity, even though blogs don’t […]

Honestly, you have to laugh at the solemn self-regard that occasionally afflicts the blogosphere (no I’m not claiming immunity ). Subconsciously or otherwise, there’s a tendency to talk and act as if blogs are the next generation of MSM. Maybe it’s the curse of our competitive market-based society but over and over one reads hints […]

As many have noticed and commented, we are still having problems with the blackout of posts once you go to the archive page and the comments area.  I’m sorry it is has taken so long to deal with this but the delay has been unavoidable.  I promise, if we could get it sorted any quicker […]

Apologies to those who are still having problems with the site.  Since the upgrade the other day, in part thanks to a host error, the archive pages (that is, when you open a single post) are rendering in black making them all but impossible to read.  It will be fixed as soon as possible.  This […]

Just a quick update. Spam again. For the past few weeks a number of commenters have let me know that some comments they’ve left have gone missing. For some reason nasking seems the worst hit and the problem nearly always turns out to be the Akismet spam software. By and large […]

That Howard twitch must be contagious.
Last night on Lateline, Costello was positively possessed by the palsy as he writhed and squirmed to the incisive but fair questioning of Tony Jones. One can only assume he caught the disease by staying intimately close to one or other of the Howard orifices (for all the good it’ll do him […]

Here on the Balcony we’re very excited about being asked to write for Road to Surfdom, because RTS was one of the first, if not the first, blogs I ever read. I stumbled on Tim’s blog from Margo Kingston’s Webdiary, which was a really interesting read. Kind of like a blog, only not. From there […]

Well, we have two new names on the writer’s list here at Surfdom, both of whom have now posted. First cab off the rank was Darryl Mason whom I’m sure most of you will recognise as a regular commenter and also from his blog, The Orstrahyun.
The most recent new post is from […]