Adventures in Renovation

In the last month this blog got hit with a whole bunch of comment SPAM! I had hundreds of comments on my entries with random stuff in them all with links to online poker gambling crap. It was such a problem I couldn't even log onto the blog because there were too many spammers leaving spam on my blog last week. So I had to update Movable Type and add a bunch of plugins too try to refuse spam. Fortunately Movable Type is great and has published a really good guide to fighting comment spam and made a plugin for a new html tag called "nofollow." That keeps search engines like Google from following the link in the comment spam to the online poker site. These links give the poker site a higher rating on search engine's which is their ultimate goal. They probably don't care if anyone reading this blog actually goes to play online poker.