Comment Spamtards have been an increasing problem here at Casa Rousselle, and I've finally reached a point where the performance hit to my server is too great for me to continue to allow unfettered access to the comment engine. Thus, alas, I have resorted to turning on the "authentication" mechanism supplied by Movable Type and TypePad. If you want to post a comment to this site (and I hope you do!), you'll now have to register with TypePad (free!) and/or login with your TypePad ID and then you can post your comments.

Please pardon the dust while I mess around with the formatting of the new comment templates; the defaults are very clunky, and it'll take me a few hours (which I'll be spreading out over several days) to get them back to looking like normal.

In the meantime, I have several new posts in store for you. Please stay tuned... and, hey! Comment as the spirit moves you!

--me

PS: what is a 'comment spamtard'? That's my term for anyone who slows down my server by constantly pinging the comment engine on my blog to try to get ads for other sites or other services posted to my site in their comment entries. Argh!