blog spam

now they've thought of it all...did anyone else out there realize that people can spam a blog? i got an email notification one day from the blog letting me know that someone had posted a comment, so i rushed out to the site to see what it was and was disappointed and angered to see that it was some nonsense from some spammer. as a result, i disabled comments for the "The family..." post and from now on anybody posting comments will have to do a word verification (you know - where they show you an image of those wavy, scribbled letters and you have to type them into a field before you can proceed). sorry for the inconvenience, but i don't want our blog getting all jammed up with a bunch of garbage.