Comment Spam, and Coughing

Insomnia does sometimes have its benefits. I got up last night in the middle of the night, and discovered that someone had posted thirty pieces of comment spam to my blog in a matter of minutes. All similarly worded comments which included a link to an alleged anti-spyware site. "Alleged" in that I suspect it was actually quite the opposite of "anti-spyware." As in, "visit us and get infected."

Oh well. Whenever I receive a comment on a blog post, new or old (and most of these were old posts of mine), I receive an automatic email notification from Blogger. So it was simply a matter of going through new email in Thunderbird, and deleting the comment spam from my blog almost as fast as it was posted in the first place. And, may I note, within only an hour or two after it appeared. Like I say, insomnia hath its benefits.

This is what I get for turning off word verification the other day— you know, type qwwkltso or whatever, to make your comment appear. Talk about brain farts, I can't even remember now why I did this. Well, once again you will have to type qwwkltso.

Now if only I could figure out the odd comment spam I've been getting, word verification or no, about once a week this past month or two. Usually on an older post of mine, a brief squib containing a link to some bland and completely off-topic Fox News story. Anybody else been getting these? Oh well, they don't survive the next time I check my email.

And all the above is the good news, relatively speaking. The bad news is, I've come down with something in my chest, deep wracking cough, phlegm, had a fun time getting through last night's midweek lenten service. And here comes Holy Week. I've got something scheduled this evening, but I'm spending as much of the day as I can flat on my back.