The spammers have finally arrived. I rather suspected this would happen. Automated programs running around the Net have begun to leave comments on this blog. While I welcome all opinions, invitations for insurance estimates and penis enlargements we can live without.

To that end, I have enabled a “scribble” on the comments page. You can still post anonymously (or not), but it will require you to copy the letters from a visual scribble into a box for verification prior to allowing you to save your post. I’m sure you’ve encountered similar things on other web sites.

I did try to remove any unwelcome comments. If you find any spam comments I missed, please drop me an email with the entry title and post date and I’ll clean ’em up. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it’s the world we live in.