Beneath the placid exterior of this blog, deep in the dark under-belly of the Internet, a secret war has been raging. I’ve been getting tons of comment spam. You don’t see it because comments from first time writers get shunted into a moderation queue for me to manually review and approve. You may have noticed the first time you commented here that it took a while for your comment to appear. That’s why.

This has worked fine until recently… now I’m getting daily deluges of automated comment spam that I have to wade through to find the few legitimate new commenters. It’s too much work!

To combat this plague, I’ve enabled a new anti-spam tool called Akismet. I *think* this will be fairly transparent to you. There may be a small delay when commenting as your post is checked but apart from that I hope for no impact to real people and a marked decrease in the spam I have to wade through. We’ll see… I’m sure this war isn’t over yet.

Dirty, stinkin’ spammers…