Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

I’ve had a recent spike in visitors to my blog. Ordinarily, that could mean that people are enjoying my writing. I knew that this was not the case for two reasons: (1) people don’t like my writing :-) and (2) I hadn’t written anything in a while.

But it turns out the recent surge of traffic isn’t from people coming to my blog, but a large amount of bots controlled by spammers. And no, I didn’t need some clever traffic analysis tool to help me figure this out. This one was easy; the 250 spam comments in my moderation queue were a clear giveaway. :-)