I doubt anyone noticed, but the site has now been hit by the same comment spam 4 times. This is a big problem with Movable Type installations, with spammers searching for mt-comments.cgi on Google, then inserting random comments with their links in order to increase their PageRank. (I could have sworn that my robots.txt disallows indexing of my entire cgi-bin, which would have kept me immune to this problem...) By the third time I was hit, I noticed simple IP banning wouldn't work, since while it was the exact same text and poster name, the IP was different every time.

So, I investigated a few options, and found SCode and MT-Blacklist. I found SCode first while searching through the MT Plugin directory, but it proved too complex to try and install GD and its dependencies to get it to work. Luckily, SCode had a trackback that linked to this list, where I found out about MT-Blacklist. I did install that (after finding I needed to install the Storable perl module), and quickly testing it myself, it works great. It's less of a hack than SCode is, too - SCode involves manually editing parts of the MT source code, which also means it would have to be patched back in after every upgrade. I'm not sure if I'm going to bother with it.

Other than the war on spam, not much happening. I did, on the recommendation of some people on the Bemanistyle forums, go out to Guitar Center and picked up a keyboard stand to put my pop'n music ASC on... unfortunately, the shape and width of the ASC is a little too small to properly support itself on the stand, which has no surface of its own. The stand seems to work great for Ransai controllers, though...

Tomorrow is the now-traditional FF:CC night at Dave's apartment. Probably bringing over Neko no ongaeshi to watch, but I don't know how many people are actually going to see it...