Pride comes before a fall

I've sat here complacent for months now as I watched one after another in the blogosphere fall victim to a bloggers scourge. It was more by luck than any judgment that I too was not targeted, but still I sat here in stupidity and did nothing.

Well those days are over now, pride preceded my fall...... for last night the comment spammers got me! Gah.

It is thus I now apologise for the inclusion on my Blogger comments of the hugely aggravating 'verification' system and the disallowing of anonymous commenting. I tried to avoid both but the time has come I am afraid!

My problems with comment spam are exacerbated by that other necessary aggravation, Nortons.

Nortons it seems on my system has long had an 'issue' with the 'comment delete' trash can icon....come hell or high water it just will not allow it to show. Those of you who have suffered my ramblings from the beginning may well remember my weeks, nay months of attempts at solving the problem but it was never to be. No matter how I fiddled with settings, how often I uninstalled and re-installed, regardless of which version I used, nothing would allow my icon to appear!

Disabling Nortons entirely, not that I like to, still did not do the trick, the only solution was to uninstall it completely, yeah right and I'm gonna do that for fun (not)...... and so now, having given up the unequal struggle, in this age of technology comment spam is a particular annoyance for I in the UK have to mail Lisa 4000 miles away in the US, get her to log into my blog and delete such comments for me!

Ridiculous but true.

So, my apologies once again for the inclusion of the verification in Blogger comments, I know, I know, I hate it too but it's the lesser of two evils and there is always Haloscan.

And while we are on the subject, despite months of trying already if anyone has any clever techie idea as to how I persuade Nortons to 'play the game' I would be very grateful!