Back in D.C.

After a fairly unpleasant set of flights out of Baghdad to Amman to New York (12 hours of being tormented by a large number of unruly children does not contribute to a pleasant flight) to Washington, I’m back home. Now it’s back into the normal routine.

P.S. It seems that the spam filter on the comments section, which is supposed to filter out porno spam, page-long ephedra ads, and the like, has been rejecting perfectly normal comments for “Questionable Content.” I don’t know why it does that but I’m going to try to fix it. I’ve gotten some emails suggesting that I have programmed the software to understand the comments and reject opinions I don’t share. Even were I to want to do that, I’m certainly not clever enough. If that happens to anyone, please let me know. (I was able to get one comment posted by deleting three extra “.”s at the end of the comment. I have no idea why that was considered “Questionable Content,” but for some reason it was.)

9 Responses to “Back in D.C.”

  1. PJ Doland

    I’ll verify this is a movable type MT blacklist thing. Looks like the mt_ext_bl_item table got a few weird items in it. I’ve purged it. Things should be better now. Please let me know if this happens again. – PJ

    April 27, 2005 at 9:24 am
  2. Charles N. Steele

    Welcome back!

    Please make available posts on what you did in Iraq, what you said, how people responded, and what sorts of things you saw and heard.

    April 27, 2005 at 10:08 am
  3. Philippe Chamy

    Very glad you are back with all ten fingers and all ten toes… I was quite concerned because of the recent wave of kidnappings so widely mediatised here.

    PC

    April 27, 2005 at 10:45 am
  6. AAA

    Welcome back, Tom!

    “Even were I to want to do that, I’m certainly not clever enough.”

    I don’t think you did any such thing but I think you’re being way to modest there… 🙂

    April 28, 2005 at 8:07 pm