Spam Spam Spam Spam

Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam

But seriously folks, last night I deleted over twenty-three thousand captured and true spam comments. I keep a pretty close eye on spam comments because you know they’re spam and they’re just taking up stupid space in a database for no good reason at all.

This morning there were a thousand more. Yes: 1000. That’s ridiculous. All spam bots. Ridiculous.

I am loathe to put captcha/recaptcha controls on this dinky little personal blog so I’ve put a length limit on comments which won’t be any problem for the normal real comment-leaving visitor. (Let me know if you encounter any problems with this)

In the meantime, here’s the obligatory:

and for more fun, with subtitles

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