Another administrative change to the blog today. We’ve been assaulted by a spambot, and have accumulated about 180 spam comments in the last week or so. None of them got through, as far as I can tell — they were all caught for moderation and (manually) trashed. But it’s forced us into an unwelcome policy change.

We had to set the blog to allow only comments from registered users. But you should all be able to register without too much hassle. [fingers crossed] Looks like it’s as easy as providing a name and an email and it’ll generate a password to your email.  You should thereafter be able to reset the password to something you can actually remember (though I haven’t tested that yet).  Feel free to choose a low security password — this is really just supposed to be a low barrier to block out the worst of the spam bots. :-P  Or you can just have your browser remember it for you…

Anyway, send one of us email if you have problems and we’ll fix it.

I hate doing this, because it makes it harder for all our loyal fans to comment. But we do still really like to get your comments, so I hope that you’ll take a bit of time to register and keep commenting on our posts. We do get all the comments, read them, and even respond! It means a lot to know that people out there are paying attention.

And if anybody knows of a movement to resurrect death by hanging, drawing, and quartering as the new punishment for the crime of spamming, sign me up for it…