Jay Allen, of MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse fame, generously recommends Brad Choate's Spam Lookup as a more comprehensive solution to webspam/commentspam/trackspam. The nightly build (which fixes a bug in beta 2) is here. So, in short, for spamkilling purposes on the new and improved MT3.16 version of the blog, I think I'd like to give "Spam Lookup" a whirl. I like MT-Blacklist, but it's kind of slow, and the cross-blog functionality alone makes it possible for me to open up the 'Quicklinks' sideblog comments. Plus… hey, I think I could eventually bring the Holy Moly blog under its wing, too. Hmm.…
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Even our dull corporate buildings look almost pretty this time of year. The crabapples and redbuds are in bloom all along the parkways, and the air smells sweet (even for this area, which often smells faintly of jet fuel owing to our location right under the approach/takeoff path for O’Hare. The whole area is greening up, and the landscape companies are out in force. You can tell that spring has arrived when the yard waste bags burst into bloom in all their brown-paper glory along the curbs on Garbage Day. I have next week off – I threw the week…
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There’s smoke in the air; it looks almost white-ish; Papal expectations, everybody’s watching for you The populi in St Peter’s Square, they all seem to know you The cardinals act like you’re all infallible now Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome Everybody venerates you, ma illegitimi non carborundum You look in the cameras; the choir begins to sing Hopeful Roman antics, and you’re the guy in charge But after awhile, you’re fidgetin’ in your cassock It’s not the damn tailor’s fault you’re a medium-large Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome They all venerate you, ma illegitimi…