Well, I didn’t come to the decision easily, but this morning, I read an article about turning off comments over at Joel on Software.  Shortly after that, 3 or 4 spam comments made it through my spam filtering.  Honestly, I’m just tired of having to fight spam at all. It’s pretty rare that one makes it through my filtering, but whenever one does, it just annoys me immensely.

This blog is mainly for me to share my thoughts, post pictures, maybe put up a funny video or two.  It’s not meant to in any fashion be “work.”  Dealing with comment spam is unfortunately, “work.”  I don’t get tons of comments anyhow, which I’m fine with, my close friends leave notes on my posts sometimes, and they can just as easily tell me what they thought in person or on their blogs.

To anyone that might stumble across this blog and want to make a comment, I encourage you to write a post on your blog and link to me.  I’ll be watching inbound links and trackbacks which for now are still open but that too might change if trackback spam comes back in style, and I will make sure to read what you have to say.

If you don’t already have a blog, then I recommend you set up a blog on WordPress.com.  It will take you all of 5 minutes probably, and you’ll have a great blog and you’ll be able to ridicule my posts to your hearts content ;)

Anyhow, take care :)