Come back flatterspam, all is forgiven.<\/p>\n

For the past few days, the blog has been getting gibberish comment-spam, in oddly large numbers, almost at DDOS attack levels. (OK, I exaggerate but there were over 380 yesterday, 51 today.) Some of these comment spams are particularly weird, in that even the URLs are gibberish. <\/p>\n

It’s not as if the random word generators have generated text in any known human language, that could trick the unwary into clicking on a link to onlinefakemeds.com<\/em> or whatever. The URLS themselves are also random letter collections, with names like Mr._Mxyzptlk<\/a> but less meaningful.<\/p>\n

Charitably assuming that spammers have not completely taken leave of their senses, I guess that these suidfiojdfolsrkl.com<\/em>style links go to redirects and do eventually take the unwary URL-clicker somewhere. (Obviously, I’m not going to try them out. I’m enough of a sucker for any worm or trojan anyway.)<\/p>\n

But still, what is the point? It seems even less likely that people would click on a gibberish link in a mound of gibberish than that they would believe that a complete stranger in Africa would pay them ten percent for the assistance in transferring 64 million dollars.<\/p>\n

A few more blog-related odds and ends, now I’m on the subject: <\/p>\n

Apologies to anyone who expects to get email alerts about new posts here. This plug-in has just stopped working. We don’t know what happened so we have less than no idea how to change it. <\/p>\n

The Atheist blogroll got broken so long ago, it’s almost a distant memory. Again apologies. We threw it away a few months after it got stuck permanently showing last August’s posts of about ten blogroll members. (Or something like that.)<\/p>\n

Other things just randomly break anyway. For instance, there was a link to the Convention on Modern Liberty that only lasted a week or so.<\/p>\n

Plus, this blog can load so slowly (even on my allegedly very fast connection) that It’s hard to see why anyone bothers waiting for it.<\/p>\n

Except for all those visitors who are looking for Schwarzenegger, 5 fruit and veg, funny magic the gathering cards, Bodium castle, fairytale castles, fine art or morris dancing. These are the top search terms that consistently bring people here from Google. Every day. <\/p>\n

Now, I am all for giving the public what they want, but there’s only so much that I have to say on any of these topics. So, most of these visitors must leave a little disappointed, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n

This blog needs a serious “REDO FROM START.” It should happen soon…..<\/p>\n