Ahh stuff it
Got sick off all the snot in the logs so i've just moved ssh to another port and DROP all incoming ssh packets.
Well i'm doing a LOG + DROP for now just out of curiosity, but at least the failed login attempts have stopped cold.
I also put up a banner on a-hackers-craic redirecting here. This site still supports access via the year/month/title.html url's that match the ones on blogger (in addition to the hex-id ones); I was going to try to write some javascript to link or direct each post to the new one but it just seems like too much work today.