I’ve just discovered that certain friends who had previously been posting comments on this blog have found themselves locked out. I haven’t even been getting emails saying “comment pending”. Rather, the voracious and overeager spam filter Akismet, which I recently began to use, knocks them out even before I would get an email letting me know anything had happened.
I had been wondering why it has been so peaceful and quiet here in blog-land. Here I have sat, floating atop my lotus, posting away in eerie cybernetic silence, while marveling at the strange and haunting stillness that has surrounded me of late.
And all the time it was just that pesky spam filter destroying my friends’ comments, stuffing up my ears with cotton, stifling the free voice of the citizen reader, cutting me off from those who love me and would help me be the very best blogger I can be.
Ah, modern technology. So powerful, yet so fickle. Our faithful little electronic servants, who defeat us at every turn.