In the past few days I’ve received dozens of robot comments whose only plausible purpose is to see what will get through the filters. Most of them contained exactly three links to well-known entities, most of them in entertainment or news; this could be to test how many links my filter allows before treating a comment as spam.

Thursday: That’s stopped, but now I’m getting some consisting only of links to nonexistent domains.

Sameer Parekh writes:

It appears that everytime I post to the blog, I start the post with, “it’s been a while since I’ve posted here.”

No wonder I forgot that he has a blog!

Unqualified Offerings cites numerous comments on Serenity, which I’ll read later.

It’s a year since I moved this humble effort from Blogger to WordPress, plenty of time for some of you to update your links — not that I’m not grateful for attention in whatever form.

A tip of the hat to those few who have already done so.

I wonder what I did to deserve being blogrolled by Mutualist (Kevin Carson).

I hope you like the new look, though I’m still tweaking it.

Ah, phooey: I’ve carelessly deleted my preferred “theme”. May as well leave it for now while I go learn how to write one properly.