Well, after 3 days of 20-30 spam comments a day, I finally decided to do a fresh install of Movable Type while upgrading to 3.11. This allowed me to easily turn on the comment registration system without having to recode the individual templates. As a side effect, you can see that I now have a new style for the blog. I think I'll keep this style for now, but in the days ahead I'll be slowly re-adding my links to the index page and changing other preferences to make it mine again.
What does this mean to you? Not a whole lot unless you're one of the 3 people who semi-regularly comment on the blog. You will now have to register with the Typekey service in order to comment. Don't worry, they'll walk you through it the first time you try to comment. From then on, it should be very easy to leave a message here.
