My computer's been out of commission for a while, and I only just got everything reinstalled. Even now it's not really up to its old standards, and there's a lot I'm still working out.

Imagine my surprise when I visited my blog and found it overrun by spam! Luckily, they only got one blog entry, and it wasn't that bad, all things considered. They seriously misjudged their target audience if they thought hawking viagra on gpi.com was going to get them anywhere!

Unfortunately, I did have to disable anonymous comments. It was easy to do (thanks to my foresight in design!), but I really would have preferred not to force people to register just to tell me what they think of my blog entries. The good news is that user accounts are totally secure, in terms of spammers being unable to get your email addresses. The only way to get 'em is to look directly at the database! So, you're all safe.

Have a happy New Year! :)

Hey, you did what you had to. The spammers are no threat any more. That's good because now I can call off that expensive airstrike on their house.

I don't require people to sign up to post on my blog. Wordpress seems to have a really good spam filter, but I've never needed to use it.