Whew, just cleaned out several hundred spam comments. Those bots are prolific. I guess it’s time to see what Dries Buytaert’s anti-spam project is all about…

In the meantime, lest you suspect that I’ve made a New Year’s resolution to stop writing, I should tell you that I’ve been spending too much of my writing time posting as mechanical_fish on Hacker News, a fairly awesome site full of people who know much more about software than I.

UPDATE: From my Mollom page: “Mollom blocked 7360 spam attempts the past 10 days”. So far, so good. Mollom is hereby recommended.

UPDATE 2: That seems to have been a typo on the Mollom site: I think they meant 736 spam attempts over 10 days. Much more believeable. And still scary.