Spammers
Although it is not obvious on the front page I have been doing some work on this blog in the backend. If you take a look at the Defensio count meter on my blog you will see how unhappy the spammers were with the choices I made.

They particularly detest my new comments policy and I’ll let you figure out which specific provisions pissed them off most of all. Yes, I’m here to tell you that I will never ever go back to using Akismet. Akismet gives far too many false positives and has other problems that I won’t dwell on here.

The good news is that Defensio is working just great for me. It was installed on January 9th so take a look at the spam count and you will have an idea of the volume of spam that has been directed at this blog.

Non-reciprocal Links
Please check my Links page and look for a link to your blog link on it. If you find a link to your blog there and, if you have no reciprocating link to my blog in yours, then within the next 10 days I will either delete the link to your blog or I will attach a “no-follow” tag to it.