First Cup 01.25.07

Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink… ~ Honore de Balzac

I have been inundated with comment/trackback spam over the past few days. Spam Karma and Akismet have stopped 99.9% of it, but I was still wadding through all that they did to make sure there weren’t any legitimate comments blocked (there weren’t). We’re talking about over 1000 of these #$!*&!^%’s in less than 24 hours.

This morning I installed Bad Behavior. In the past 30 minutes it has stopped 16 attempts, and there doesn’t appear to be any ill effects on the blog. If you have any problems posting a comment, or any other issue with the blog, please let me know.

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