My Corner of the Interweb

Here we go again...

Mood: Pretty good.
Music: None.
Game: World of Warcraft, America's Army.
Book: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein.
Muffin: None, but I should have gotten one. I'm hungry. Again.

Well, to start, this morning, my mom got on a plane and headed to Florida for good. New start to a new life. I'm sure she'll love the new apartment...I'll just make sure to call her a lot. Probably be lonely and missing New York for a while.

Curiously, whenever I moved to a new city I was always fine for the first couple of months. So much to do and explore...new restaurants, touristy things, reading new newspapers, getting new culture and viewpoints. Learning the tempo. After you sort of worked up the routine, you start missing things. No pizza. Really expensive vegetables. The news doesn't have this or that. No hockey! Whatever it is. But it usually takes me a while to really start missing things.

I guess we all have our ways of dealing with things.

Anyway, yesterday, I read on Landry's blog that she was frustrated at the fact that she needed to register to comment. Now, as you'll probably recall, I turn on required registration in order to foil blogspammers, whom, in my opinion, should be killed very, very slowly with a seafood fork and salad tongs.

Because friend Maria commented on Landry's blog that it was frustrating her as well, I succumbed to friendly peer pressure, and turned off registration required. Within THIRTY MINUTES, I had six spam entries in my comments. I banned the IPs, deleted the comments, and went about my business.

This morning, I had ten more spam entries. Again, I banned the IPs and deleted the comments.

I will leave the registration requirement alone for now...at least until I have to delete fifty of these obnoxious things a day, at which point, people will have to figure out how to register.

And in response, I expect many, many pithy comments and witty repartee.

It's only fair.

Posted by Glenn at September 27, 2005 12:01 PM