Site being modified
Currently I’m working on cleaning the site and getting it ready for transport.
A new design/layout and custom blog software based on django.
JSecure Beta 1
Just released a new component called JSecure, it is black/white list manager and enforcer for your Joomla! site. You can easily adjust the rules and apply them to your back-end or front-end or both. It uses cidr notation to easily manage large network ranges and you can add notes to your rules so you will remember why you whitelisted that particular ip.
Bad Behaviour Plugin
Bad Behavior safed this blog many times from spam and that protection should be available to Joomla! 1.5 as well. There is already a mambot out there but I wanted no legacy coding or database dependency for this plugin. So I have modified Bad Behavior a little to work without a database and with some checks removed (cookie and blackhole).