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If anyone has been leaving genuine comments on our blog recently, it probably wont show up. The reason is that we have been getting hundreds of spam comments on our blog every day for the last 2 weeks and we have simply been blocking all the comments. What is with these spam messages?

Teju: Actually, I’ve disabled comments for now. Beats deleting 200+ crappy messages everyday.

Teju update: We’ve been getting ‘erection supplement’ spam in our header everyday- anyone know what this exploit is? It’s trashing our Google PR.

Teju update #2(Sep 28th): On Raghu’s advice I upgraded to wordpress 2.6.2 and enabled askimet on the blog. Let’s see if the injection attacks stop. I’ve re-enabled comments, counting on askimet to catch the spam.

Watched this movie tonight.

It is set in Vietnam, the story simple, Cinderella-like.

The story was old and boring, but the telling…it was exquisite, with sensuous visuals, music and sound. Like meditation, effortless and aware.

CYA spiel - Some may find this boring, please don’t yell at me if you do. The acting is so-so, but the production more than makes up for it.

Like most Indian news websites nowadays, Rediff also has plenty of columns meant to titillate the senses of its male readers. This photo gallery is a good example. The model does look very nice, but whats more intriguing is the comment that I have captured below. Click the image to expand.

Aah, such eloquence!!

One thing I must say for Sarah Palin - she’s teased open a bunch of societal scabs just by being. A conservative, “pro-life”, drilling-hungry, lipsticked pitbull hockey mom with a handicapped kid….wowowow so much fodder for discussion, activism and fights here. Throw into the mix an old-ish presidential candidate and these issues barge into your living room and life, staring your family in the face.

Her stance on abortion, borne out by her personal actions is scary. Le Palin had a shotgun wedding and just (at 44 years) delivered a handicapped child. Her 17 year old daughter has “decided” to bear a child to term. The gray band that defines conception is widening and creeping over my rights. Is taking a morning-after-pill is abortion? If so, isn’t taking birth control abortion too? Will contraceptives be banned? Are we looking at Ceausescu’s America? Or a Catholic version where sex exists solely for conception, not pleasure?

And what a brilliant stroke to create a movement that forces women to bear children and then call it ‘pro-life’. The thousand reasoned arguments against it are stymied by the question “if one is not pro-life is one anti-life?” I have to hand it to the conservative right wing nuts - they have the naming down (remember the “Patriot” Act, which shredded civil liberties?).

My inner libertarian is a nervous wreck.