A couple months ago, I wrote about how one of my posts was attracting a large amount of spam after being featured on Lifehacker.  As a result, I explored some ways to deal with the problem.  I’m largely satisfied with the result.  Both Akismet and Bad Behavior are doing a great job of stopping spam; [...]

My love affair with languages started about 5 years ago, after a trip to Ecuador.  At that point, I’d taken two years of Spanish, but wasn’t really all that enthralled about the language.  But after spending two weeks in a country that spoke Spanish, learning the language became exciting.  No longer was it something that [...]