The battle against spam continues. For those of you who may not know, I have a slight objection to requiring people to register for my site, or using those annoying little scrambled-up words, or moderating all my comments. So in the past, when I was running an older version of MT, I had an email white-list feature that recognized the email addresses of my regular readers and allowed them to post without any type of moderation. However, when I upgraded to MT 4.0, my white-list pluggin no longer worked. Thus, I've been going without any spam protection for the last three months or so.

Well, my security through obscurity stragey is no longer working either, and there's been a spike in spam lately--too much for me to keep up with. So, I turning off comments for a couple of days until the robots turn their attention elsewhere. Meanwhile, I'll search my soul about what to do about the problem, and decide

whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous spam, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.

Either way, I've got my Barack Obama and Mitt Romney report cards ready to go, but I'm going to postpone them until I've got my comments back on (maybe Wednesday or Thursday?).

If you have a burning desire to comment on my Evel Knievel tribute, or if you just want to get in touch, you'll find my email address at the very bottom of this page. (By the way, if you want to know how I get away with publishing my email address without getting tons of email spam, I have some tricks up my sleeve that I can share with you.)