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Blog Shined

Well, thanks to Dean Esmay I have the latest version of Movable Type blogging software, as well as Typekey-enabled comments. This was necessary because I (and my hosting company) were getting killed by comment spammers.

Comment spammers are strange creatures, the cockroaches of the blogging world. They're not really trying to sell their products here at Boviosity - no, they're on the site for one reason: to get higher Google rankings. They're piggybacking cockroaches!

No more.

If you want to comment on Boviosity, you will need to get a Typekey account. It's free and easy and you can use the same account to comment on any Typekey-enabled weblog. I hope you will continue to comment despite this slightly onerous requirement. It's the only way at my disposal to defeat these spamming scum.

I'll be making some cosmetic changes hereabouts to accomodate the new version. Meanwhile, if you find any problems that seem to be hanging around longer than they should, let me know...preferably in a comment. That way I know you got your Typekey!

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Hey Brian, do you think you could give me an overview on what's involved in doing this? I just hand deleted a buttload (that's a technical term) of comment spam from the Farmhouse, and I'd like to see this become a thing of the past.

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