Due to the persistence of comment spam and at the requests of individuals, all email notifications involving new posts and comments have been disabled. To keep on track with the blog, I highly recommend subscribing via an RSS reader. I like using NetNewsWire on the mac. Mac users may also use Safari’s built-in rss reader. For the Firefox users, I’m sure there are tons of rss plugins available in addition to the Live Bookmarks feature.

We will continue to combat the spam on this blog (a great deal of it is filtered immediately by the blacklist words). Apologies for the email noise over the last few days.
–Shaun

UPDATE:
Additionally, I’ve disabled open registration and anonymous comments. At this point, we can manually add new users as they come along, and users need to log in to leave a comment.

Sorry for the facist-like policy. I’m ideally for open registration and anonymous comments because this lets the casual passer-byer leave his/her two cents. Unfortunately, the amount of spam greatly outweighed the amount of meaningful passer-by comments, so it’s best to shut all doors completely.