I wonder... 

If Bush decided to play the partisan card today in going to the mat on executive privilege because he was miffed about the 94-2 Senate vote to require Senate confirmation of U.S. attorney appointments, and finds it in his interest to encourage more divisiveness in Congress. (Or more likely Rove finds it in Rove & Co.'s interest.) So much for "I'm a uniter, not a divider."

Fun with blog comment spam thwarting 

It's easy for somebody like me to procrastinate about tending to an abandoned blog that's filled up with spam. I hate maintaining anything. I'll choose to work on a new project over fixing something I'm not interested in anymore. (But that only holds true for hobby activities. If I'm getting paid to do mindless maintenance stuff, that alters the whole equation. At work, anything broken is the top priority.)

So, it took me months to turn my attention to the pMachine and Drupal forerunners of this blog. The old pMachine blog was especially spammy. (The tool isn't supported anymore.) I took one step after the other, turning off the right to post comments, removing the comment form, removing the section of the detail page holding the comments, and still the automatic commenters commented. Finally, I nuked the comments table, and didn't even put back the structure only like I did with the tables I'd purified. Wouldn't you know they are still commenting right into the black hole.

I'll turn off the e-mail notification soon, but in the meantime I get some pleasure out of seeing the vain attempts show up in my inbox.