Looked at my archive page today for the first time in a couple of weeks. There were almost 300 comments on the postings.

Every single one of them blog spam.

I enjoyed the "you need a new wordpress template" for my BlogEngine.NET site. Those were good. But I think my favorites were the ones that said "Beautiful! Amazing!" on posts that said things like "I had the worst day ever"; and the ones that said "you need to improve the look and usability of your site." That's right, encourage me to leave a post that insults me.

Anyway, I disabled comments on the site until I get a blog spam filter. Looks like Commenter is the one to use, so I'll be loading it and enabling it soon. 'Til then, sorry you can't comment. Not that anyone did.

If you visit our site often (and how many of you do, really?) you may notice it's got a new look. I've switched to using BlogEngine.NET to manage the content. Hopefully using BlogEngine will make it easier for me to keep the site up-to-date since I'll be able to edit from any Internet connected PC. For example, I've already fixed a couple of typos on the front page that were just too much trouble to clean up with the old way of working with the site.

Over the next few days (weeks) the site will keep changing as I work on getting BlogEngine to display it the way I want it to look.

I've wanted to start a gallery of images that I took with my little bitty digital camera. Here's one of the pictures that I took. Linking to photos on Flickr will have to do for now, but hopefully I'll get a Silverlight gallery running eventually.

I found out today that my old Web site, digger.whidbey.winisp.net, is getting closed down.

Quick like a bunny I downloaded the contents of the Web site to my hard drive so I wouldn't loose any of my old logs. I'll be re-entering them here over the next few days, which means a few oddities in the logs, like a 2009 creation date on a 2002 log entry.