A couple of quick updates:

For starters, if anyone has been looking for Darren’s blog, he’ll be back shortly. There was a eeensy-teensy little issue to resolve (his domain expired), but his site should be back up shortly.

You can’t see the difference here, but I’ve installed the new version of Movable Type. And I did it all by myself! (Although I did need some independent verification to verify that I didn’t toast my damn blog. So far, so good.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is that MT 3.1 has a few new features for managing comments. One of the schema is requiring comment registration using a service like TypeKey to prevent malicious comments. I can also go to a solution like Spike and Stacey have implemented. And then there’s MT-Blacklist, which has served me well to this point, but isn’t what I’d call ‘proactive’. But since you, dear readers, are the ones who leave the comments, I thought I’d…well, not put it to a vote, really, because M-D’s RT isn’t a democracy, damnit…but I’d ask your opinion. And guess where we’re going to talk about this! You guessed it – the comment box!

There’s more to talk about, but…that’s for later.

Addendum: To paraphrase Steve Jobs, just two more things – 1) I forgot to actually ENABLE comments for this post. That’s done now. 2) I’ve gone back and installed MT-Blacklist 2.01b as a precaution, until the decision re: comments is made…mainly because I went back to my activity log and saw exactly how much work the old version was doing behind the scenes. In retrospect, very little comment spam was breaking through. But that doesn’t change the overriding purpose of my earlier post.