Commenting changes

I had been spending 15 minutes a day just cleaning comment spam from the site. That’s about 10 minutes more per day than I have to give to this hobby, so it was really getting me down. When I first starting getting comment spam, I installed the MT-Blacklist anti-spam plugin. It’s a good tool: it makes despamming much easier, and I’m sure it makes the spamming problem less than it would otherwise be. But when I got 100 spam comments every day for the last three days in a row, I just couldn’t stand it anymore. Fussing with my MT installation usually gives me knots in my stomach, so I held off as long as I could. Today I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to MT 3.1. When this is all sorted out, you’ll have to register with Movable Type before you can comment. You only have to register once, and it enables you to comment on any blog running MT. For now, commenting is off.

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Published:: 10.17.04 / 12pm

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The Spiritual Aspirant: Sidi Khalil Moore will be in Singapore conducting a workshop for The Spiritual Aspirant, to be held 27 June to 5 July. I had the pleasure to hear Sidi Khalil speak in Detroit back in 2002 in conjunction with the US tour of Habib Ali Al-Jifri. I regret I won't be able to make the short trip across the South China Sea to attend, but I recommend it to anyone in the area. The workshop is being sponsored by Simply Islam, under the capable hands of some of the fine people who put on the Journey to Ihsan event a couple years ago, which I did attend and enjoyed immensely.

Collapse Preparedness: The transition from the USSR to the republic of Russia was a catastrophic event for the people who lived through it. The eventual (imminent?) collapse of the US will be much much worse, warns Dmitry Orlov. The USA has a Collapse Gap. Orlov realizes

that some people will react rather badly to having their country compared to the USSR. I would like to assure you that the Soviet people would have reacted similarly, had the United States collapsed first. Feelings aside, here are two 20th century superpowers, who wanted more or less the same things – things like technological progress, economic growth, full employment, and world domination – but they disagreed about the methods. And they obtained similar results – each had a good run, intimidated the whole planet, and kept the other scared. Each eventually went bankrupt.

Valuable lessons on what to expect and how to prepare follow. Read it yourself, but the condensed advice is this: Live on the margins of society. One encouraging sign that Americans are picking up the skills they will need to survive: haggling at the mall.

Brass Crescent: Nominations are open for the annual Brass Crescent blog awards organized by AltMuslim and City of Brass. Hurry on down and nominate your favorites. There's even a brand new category for Best South/Southeast Asia Blog! *cough cough*

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