November rain

It seems I was quite right to take a walk yesterday. Today is miserable and raining. Anyway, back to business.

I noticed that a number of the student blogs have attracted spam comments - I've also had a few. Since it isn't all that obvious how to delete them, and a couple of people have asked, I put together a short tutorial. Check it out if you have comments you'd like to remove. If you continue to receive unwanted comments, I suggest you turn on Word Verification in your blog settings. It prevents mass automated comments (the most common type) being posted on your blog.

Jamie has just given me the all clear to drop in at 12.30pm on Monday 7th November in order to "touch base" with you all. Look forward to that.

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