Too hot

This morning I looked into using feedburner a bit more, for allowing users to subscribe to email updates. Unfortunately it seems that after you submit your email address you have to fill in a captcha, which is a good way to discourage people from signing up to your mailing list.

Next I tried the Enroll Comments plugin for Wordpress. I liked this plugin better than the Subscribe Comments plugin as it uses the admin area to allow users to manage their subscriptions, making it work similarly to the Subscribe2 plugin.

The only problem was that when you first comment, it signs you up as a new user. This is okay in itself, but it doesn't send the login information if the new comment hasn't been approved yet (which it won't be if this is your first comment). So I fixed that, and then spent the rest of the day altering the Subscriber2 plugin so that it would include an unsubscribe link in any email (and that the unsubscribe link would work).

In the evening I watched 'October' with Mauser. It was quite good, but as often happens with these Soviet Propoganda films, it had bits that didn't make much sense, e.g. everyone is worried about a general and his 'cut-throat' (or something similar) army approaching the city. Then it just says that the general was arrested, and doesn't give any explanation.

After that I sorted a few photos and went on the internet a bit.

The weather was cloudy nearly all day, but it was hot and humid. There were loads of annoying little black bugs about that would go on you and would squidge when you tried to get them off (they were quite itchy).