Our hotel, the Waikīkī Holiday Inn, is in the process of changing internet providers, so their guests can’t get online for another three weeks. Bleah!
I was able to walk over to the hotel where our they are holding our conference…and we’ve got wi-fi! Five bars of signal strength. No stupid credit-card-number-demanding portal. No hassle.
As such, I won’t be able to be online as much as I had hoped, and, unfortunately, while I was away, the TrackBack spammers were zombifying my site. So until I get back, the TrackBacks cgi is disabled. They’re evil; evil, I tell you.
Time to go to dinner; more later, including a near-death experience, $8 milk, and begrudging praise to the almighty Sam Walton.
Update 6/23: It seems there is no easy way to turn off TrackBacks sitewide in Movable Type. Disabling the TrackBack cgi may have stopped a few spam pings, but a few spammers still got through. Apparently, you can run a SQL command to accomplish what I was trying to do, but I wasn’t going to mess with SQL while I was on a borrowed laptop with a limited internet connection. TrackBacks are back to normal once more.
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