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One of my recent posts attracted a comment that I can only interpret as attempt at stealth spam. The text of the comment was sufficiently vague that it could be considered on topic (if not well reasoned or insightful). What indicated the comment was spam instead of badly argued partisan hackery was the comment subject and URL. A cursory glance through the comments may not have identified this. I can only assume this is an attempt to game search engines (although I doubt Google and friends consider my blog to be particularly influential). The element I find interesting is...
Things I'm aware of about my own writing: I use far too many commas I have a tendency to go into way too much detail about points tangential to my original point My spelling is atrocious but mostly masked by spell check I have no idea what circumstances the colon and semicolon are appropriate for I tend towards the opinionated (often from the very opinionated) I can be overly verbose I often include qualifications, either due to or...
Yes, I am aware that I have a tendency to raise new points in the summary section of my posts. This works for me.
I've just updated to the latest version of dasBlog. In doing so this time I've left most of the themes available (previously I'd deleted them). In theory you should now be able to change theme (if you care, which I suspect you don't). I've had some issues with doing so, if the theme doesn't apply try refreshing the page. Or just leave it as is.
I've decided to trial using Feedburner to see if it the stats are interesting and useful. This of course means I'm tracking your every move. So behave.
I've decided to move my blog over to DasBlog. Adding features to my own system was taking time away from other projects I wanted to work on. This will result in all new URLs and a period of DNS uncertainty as I move over to my new hosting provider.