I'm not sure what's going on out there in the web, but in the last six hours I've gotten approximately 30 spam postings on my blog. That far exceeds my average of ten or so a day. When I got up this morning I deleted about 20. Dang.

I've disabled commenting for a bit—I'm going to see if I can figure out how to stem the tide. I feel a bit like Casper Van Dien and Jake Busey looking out over the approaching swarm of 'bugs.' HOLD THE LINE! (Current banned IP total: 339)

<< Addendum > > After twenty minutes, I've re-enabled the comments. Using a few of the suggestions I found here, I may have made some progress. We'll see how it goes.