Drops of Blood

I’m getting hammered with spam on this site all of a sudden. It’s overwhelming Akismet, and the spam program I just installed, Defensio, is still on a learning curve about what constitutes “spam.”
For now, so that I can get something done (other than deleting email notifications about waiting spam), I’m *temporarily* disabling comments on all [...]

I’m pulling out of the Entrecard system for several reasons, but this blog has got an accumulation of 3,967 credits that I need to distribute before I go. So here’s the deal of the day:
I’ll give you 100 Entrecard credits just for signing up for this blog’s RSS feed or email feed, until I run [...]

I’m calling an early end to the Entrecard experiment. I’m disappointed and tired of the system’s glitches. I’ll continue to use the system as a useful way to find interesting new blogs to read, but no more clicking through hundreds of blogs to rack up the points and to raise my blog in the category [...]