Popularity & Paparazzi

It’s a common fact that with popularity comes le paparazzi. If you don’t believe me ask Princess Di (God rest her soul). So what has that got to do with me? Well it’s been a good 3-4 months since I launched my blog and lets just say that it’s catching up some visitors, making some ground, and basically has attracted more than a handful of loyal visitors some of whom who’ve taken the time to add my RSS Feed (Dont know how to, will do a post on that along with a review on Firefox 2.0) to their RSS readers, and some who just keep coming back “Old School” style (10 points to all of you coz you took the effort. Count on me to buy you Isso Wadei, when Galle Face re-opens).

So to cut a long story short, I’ve started getting hounded by le paparazzi of z bloggers! A.k.a Spam Comments. It was all cool for a while since they had “Good” things to say till y’day, I got this :

“Hey nice blog. Although it�s not what I was looking for. I am looking for info on Payday Loans or a Cash Advance so I can buy some Hoodia Diet Pills.. I found your blog very interesting“

I mean the NERVE… so anyways sadly, I had to implement the “Word Verification for Comments”. I know this is an absolute pain, coz I myself can’t seem to get it right the first time (yes.. I know I’m dumb.. thank god they don’t use them for IQ tests). So all in all, this would be to apologize for any inconvenience caused to you good folks out there.

There are some brilliant work-arounds to this, if any of them could be incorporated with Blogger, please let me know and you shall regarded as “The Man”.