Spam is something everybody has to deal with, but people who run their own webistes even more so I think. In an effort to curb the inevitable onslaught of spam, I've made account creation a requirement for posting comments. Currently, this is the only form of spambot mitigation on the site. No email verification or captchas to decipher or any of that garbage... yet. I'll keep an eye open and see how bad it gets. Each time another spambot gets through, I'll introduce more requirements.
The point is, if you want to post comments, you gotta make an account... but it's currently very easy to do so. So, those of you that think you might want to, do it now before it gets annoying. Or not. Most of my online friends I talk to all day over IM, so I don't know why they would bother. Unless it's Mike and he just wants to humiliate me on yet another channel of communication. Which is the kind of thing he would do.
Anyway, the good news is that so far I'm digging this new content manager running on the site, so this is probably going to be what the site looks like for awhile. Unless I get Squidgy to make me a new theme.