OK, before I go to sleep (and it's not even 4 a.m.! Wow!), just wanted to point out a few more measures I've taken in my ongoing struggle against comment spam.

First, I renamed the CGI script that handles the comments. That is, the little program on my web server that handles comment posting. Presumably, if I change the name of that file, automated spamming tools might not figure out what's going on and pass my blog over.

Also, I've totally reset the comments portion of the database that stores all of Sector 42's data. Granted, there were a few legit comments, but out of the 2000+ comments posted here, probably only 100 of those were legit. And none of them were very deep. :)

So, that's all I'm doing as far as computer type activity for the next couple of days. Because... it's Christmas!! Woo!