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Last week sometime, fed up with the unending comment spam (thousands per
week), I had an epiphany.  Spammers aren't slowed down by changing
the action of the comment submission form, so it's obvious that they're
parsing that out of the markup for the form.  By simply removing
that from the form, theoretically the comment spam should stop.  Could it [...]

I installed MT-Blacklist,
a comment and trackback spam filter a couple weeks ago.  Man does
it do it's job well.  Took a little training to get it catching
all the usual suspects, but just in the past few days it's caught over
a thousand spam comments.  So much nicer than having to delete
them manually.
Last night, I also installed MT-Notifier,
which [...]

So it wasn't quite perfect. Realized that I'd botched the new entry config slightly in that comments weren't enabled by default. But that's fixed now, so anyone who happened by in the middle of the night and wondered why the previous post couldn't be commented on, that's the reason. It's fixed now though.

I got to thinking last night that I didn't have the categories of the blog broken down very well. The "ColdFusion" category in particular was quite broad. So I broke it down into three categories, and reassigned the existing entries as needed:

BlueDragon: entries about New Atlanta's BlueDragon CFML runtime
CFML: entries about the CFML [...]

I just noticed an interesting thing. My blog is getting more traffic in than The Boisvert Life for the first time ever. I guess this means that I'll actually have to start providing real content. ; )