No Wrench

As of yesterday, I didn’t have trackback working on this blog. I also could not use the Akismet spam blocking plugin. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with my host, aplus.net. Now I’ve never had any real problems with these guys, though there are people on the web who have had their share of bad things to say about them. Fair enough, but I’ve never had any real problems. I was having Server 500 errors a while ago and they fixed it in a day once I reported it to them.

Now I think that the problem with the trackback and the spam plugin have to do with port 80 being blocked on my host. So I got an email from them today claiming that they’ve fixed the problem. The spam plugin now works. However, it appears that the Dashboard does not work (and I think they both use the same mechanism. I don’t care about the dashboard. I do care about trackbacks. I’ve held off on a couple posts because I want to have trackbacks working before I post. Not being able to build a web of interconnected posts betweens sites defeats the purpose of blogs. So I’m throwing this up here to test the whole Trackback thing. Hopefully this next link registers a trackback.