I've upgraded the blogging software (a couple of hours on Wednesday night and some more time on Thursday) resulting in a few changes.

1. Captcha's gone
   
   The anti-spam security code isn't required anymore. The upgrade is supposedly much better at fighting spam, so we'll see how it goes.
2. Hot Topics
   
   Recent Posts has been replaced by "Hot Topics" which will show the most recently commented on stories, rather than the most recently posted. Probably not that useful given the Last Comments menu option, but the plugin for Recent Posts seems a little messed up so until I've time to hack it myself this will have to do.
3. Layout Fix
   
   I've also fixed my skin so it should now work in all versions of IE6 and not just the one installed with Windows XP Service Pack 2. The middle column should now also reach it's full width, no matter how wide you make the window.
4. Date Issues
   
   Unfortunately my nice long dates (1st September 2006) don't work anymore, being replaced with simple dd/mm/yy ones. Something else to work on... some day... maybe.
5. Email Users
   
   Wherever you come across you can email the author of that post or comment through a mail form (you can disable this when commenting if you wish).

As ever, any and all feedback on the changes and/or site design is welcome.