I would just like to say that, as a WordPress blog user, I absolutely adore Akismet. In the last 24 hours, my Akismet comment spam filter has caught 1,114 spam comments here at spritewrites.

I moderate comments to prevent spammers from getting free airtime. This means that every time someone leaves a comment on the blog, I get an email.

Before Rudi found and installed Akismet on the blog, spam comments got emailed to me, too. Can you imagine if I had to sort through 1,000+ emails a day? Essentially, they’d shut down commenting on the blog because I’d have to close down the discussion portion in order to run the rest of my life.

If you’re a WordPress user and would like to cut down on the amount of comment spam you see, I’d suggest taking a serious look at Akismet. I mean, it’s free. How can you beat that?

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

What are you planning to do this weekend?

I’m hoping to:

• Sleep
• Open a Flickr account
• Wind up some yarn to start some new projects
• Mail off the last of the Christmas packages
• Bake
• Read the final act of King Lear
• Knit during a three-hour meeting tomorrow afternoon
• Watch a movie or two
• Finish up the laundry
• Wash the kitchen floor
• Continue the sock yarn inventory I’m working on
• Play in the snow
• Take down the Christmas tree