I did it again. >.<

I have been majorly hit by spam in the last week or so. Not on this site, not on my mail forms... but in my emails. O___O Where are these bots getting my address from? When I join cliques or fanlistings, the address is never displayed or at least "protected" by Javascript. On this site, my address is scrambled by Javascript as well. Nowhere else does my email address appear online. Could it be that the bots have got round the Javascript trick? Gaaah. Luckily SpamAssassin is taking care of everything and sending it straight to my spam box (I have to have it sent to me because too many genuine emails get lost if I don't), so I don't have to sort through the masses and masses of prescription, software and enlargement offers that I will never need. Spam is evil.

Oh and it was me and the boyfriend's 3rd-year-together anniversary yesterday. Go us. :D

So, I took the plunge and installed PHP and MySQL on my computer so I don't have to upload all my pages every time I want to change something. I found a nice little package called xampp which has absolutely everything I need in it. I was going to install Apache, PHP and MySQL separately, but it was just my luck that Apache.org was down at the time. >.<

In other highly interesting news, I'm finally getting round to updating my question and answer script, PHPAskIt. Does anyone have any suggestions of improvements/features that need adding or even things that need removing? So far I have no ideas other than redoing the layout and general look of the thing. Oh, and I will make categories optional, as well as the option to update them from the admin panel instead of the itty-bitty list thing in the config file.

I still haven't got any ideas for layouts. Ranee suggested I make a Christmassy (if that's not a word then it is now) type one, which I have to say I'm rather tempted by. However, what to do and how to do it is still something that bothers me. Bleh.

By the way, my Wordpress comment notification emails are suddenly working again. Whaaat? I changed nothing. I didn't upgrade WP, I didn't change my mail settings, I didn't do anything. Weird.

Speaking of weird mail servers... xampp comes with a local mail server for receiving SMTP requests and such. Now, at first I thought the reason I wasn't getting the mail was because I had the wrong configuration options and/or coding. Wrong: it's actually Norton AntiVirus blocking it because of some error thing. I disabled email scanning, both incoming and outgoing, and even disabled NAV completely - nothing doing, it's still scanning my SMTP port and blocking anything I send out that isn't through Outlook Express. Grrr. I swear, Symantec are in league with Microsoft, trying to make people stick to their products and in turn insuring high income for both parties. Windows is full of "virus holes" and things, and NAV seems unwilling to do anything that's not to do with IE or Outlook/Outlook Express. *Grumble*

Edit: Ra. I caved and installed the Gravatar plugin. Wootiness.