I’m getting overwhelmed by blog spam, so I’ve enabled the Akismet filter. The catch is that it gets some false positives. If your comment fails to appear, don’t take it personally — just e-mail me and I’ll rescue it from the bit bucket.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
Sideblog
Some guy trying to cross the train tracks on grounds impaled himself on the top of the spiked, 6′ tall fence designed to keep pedestrians off the tracks. #
Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt. #
A local guy by the name of Peyton Williams intends to run against Rep. Robert Hurt. #
Somebody has taped a piece of paper to a statue! Alert the populace! #
Remember the UVA Law student who invented a story of how he was racially profiled and humiliated by UVA police? He’s been acquitted of honor code violations. I guess nothing is an honor code violation. #
Three months after winning his case against Fluvanna County, a court has ordered the county to pay Bryan Rothamel $37,000 in legal fees after they passed a law prohibiting him (and others) from displaying the county seal. #
Albemarle will issue an RFP for a new Crozet library. I’ll believe it when I see it. #
Amtrak’s Northeast Regional will likely have its funding renewed by Congress, continuing our daily rail service to D.C. #
Albemarle needs you to volunteer to serve on boards. ACSA, Places 29, Pantops Advisory, Planning, Police Citizens Advisory, Region Ten, and RSWA Citizens Advisory all need members. #
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Charlottesville Blogs
- A Fabric Corsage for our Flower Girl Jeannine @ Small and Chic
- The USDA has mapped out food deserts. Waldo Jaquith
- Nominees for Bishop Suffragan announced The Rev. James Richardson
- Reusable To-Go Container video Kendall Singleton
- CCC 016 – Samuel Adler Ralph G
- Mitt Romney’s record on First Amendment issues: religion and more The Thomas Jefferson Center For the Protection of Free Expression
- Get Your Kids to Eat Better: 16 Tips to Try, Day Two Amy Marshall
- Tweets Illustrated: High-Tension BVD
- This Day (Broke Down Edition) Brendan Wolfe
- snippits of the week Gillian
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Yeah, I’ve seen a three-fold increase in the quantity of blogspam getting past *Akismet* in the last month or so. It has tapered off, presumably as Akismet adapts.
It has been paralleled by an increase in email spam that gets past Gmail.
I’m sorely tempted to just move to a knowledge CAPTCHA (is there a better term for it?), such as “The most famous president from Charlottesville is _______ Jefferson,” and have people fill in “Thomas.” On the one hand, it’d be annoying to do that with every post. On the other hand, it’s even more annoying for people having to wait hours or days for me to approve their comment.