Upon logging in to our backup server this morning, I was alarmed to find our last backup job stuck with a status of "Loading Media". Our backups are backup-to-disk, so there wasn't any media to load. I quickly checked the filesystem, and it still had an enormous amount of free space. So what was holding up our backups?

• windows
• server

After a very, very small amount of effort, I've modified my blog to use two unconnected but highly complimentary goodies: a python implementation of CommonMark and Prism syntax highlighting. You can see the results on my last post, PHP recursion with anonymous functions; each code example should be extra stylish and fancy.

Edit: Quick update to implement syntax highlighting. Ooooh, ahhhh!

• php

Not an immense update, but I've changed the appearance of my website to correct a few issues. While the appearance of things has drastically changed, the CSS was only slightly tweaked.

• housekeeping
• css

I wanted to mention a technique that has been the silver bullet in preventing spam on my email server. When I say silver bullet, I mean we've seen a 98% reduction in the number of spam messages that we receive. I am still a little shocked at how effective it has been.

• server