Happy Spring, indeed. The light in Manhattan is beautiful this year, much cooler and cleaner than usual.

Fotola continues. Six years in, and the photos feel small, there are still no tags, and our things are still as quirky and enigmatic as ever. We're not flickr. We're not fotolog. We're web 1.2. Thank you for calling us your home away from home.

I closed a loophole in the comments code that was allowing shady characters to spam your Fotolae, even if you had comments set to "members-only". Grrr.

I also did some profiling and deleted 218 such comments posted since December 15, 2006. This may have inadvertently deleted some real, anonymous comments, but I doubt it.

If you notice new comment spam on your entries, please post a message to one of my entries to let me know. They weren't posting to any of mine.

And happy 2007, Fotola!!!

We had a big power failure at the data center on Wednesday last, which is why Fotola was down for a while last week. Unfortunately, this ended up corrupting the database a little, to the point where no one could log in. And I was out of town, so I didn't notice.

The problem has been corrected, and Fotola should be working fine now.