227 bogus comments in four hours

The floodgates have opened… with many of the spam comments coming from false “registered users” of the Blogspot/Blogger system. Therefore, commenting on this blog is now disabled.

What a shame. My apologies to those who have legitimate comments.

>> Update 2/6: Well, I feel foolish. A good friend pointed out that there’s a Blogspot/Blogger feature that requires that people leaving comments type a graphically displayed word to validate that it’s not spam. With luck, that’ll solve the problem. Guess I should have read the fine manual. Commenting is now re-enabled.