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HOL changes!
HOL has undergone a migration to the fantastic New Zealand-based open-source cms that is SilverStripe! It was a bit of an effort, but it could have been a lot harder.
HOL gets CAPTCHA'd
My god, I checked my moderation queue for blog comments and I had nearly 1000 spam comments waiting for me! Nothing that a good DELETE FROM in the database can't fix, but there might have been some real comments hidden in there! (I did find a few, and exluded them from the deletion. If I missed you I'm sorry and I don't hate you).
Resolve .local domains
Many Linux distros come pre-configured with zeroconf, which lets machines resolve each other in a peer-to-peer manner. This is fine, except they chose the .local domain, which will conflict with any .local domain you may have set up in DNS.