Okay, I had a particularly bad day of both comment spam and Trackback spam. Some idiot also decided to favor this blog with an executable called "I-blog.exe" set in one of the links. Lovely.

So as of now I'm going to switch to registration mode for comments instead of anonymous to help prevent a field day of spamming my blog. Got a few folks going willy-nilly on my blog with spam here lately. Time costs have been getting rather high with cleaning up spam. Sure, allowing anonymous comments makes me especially open to attack but registration can be viewed as a layer of effort that may discourage others from commenting simply because of time, convenience or anonymity issues.

Well from this point on anyone who truly desires to comment will take the few moments or seconds to register and contribute. I do the same on other blogs myself when I want to truly contribute...   more »