With the new year comes opportunity for change in and, l hope, simplification of one’s life. Accordingly, I am eliminating the comments function from this blog. The simple truth is this: I have not gotten spam filter Akismet to work, but I have blacklisted all kinds of IP addresses as well as dozens of words and phrases (e.g., penile enlargement). Still the spam refuses to die and frankly I’m sick of it. In my view, life is too short to have to walk around with an electronic flyswatter 24/7, especially if you’re paying good money for bandwidth. So, at the risk of alienating one or two of you, henceforth Genomeboy will be comment-free. I hope you understand and I hope the blogging will be better for it. As always I would be happy to hear from you via my Duke address…I’m not hard to find.
Thanks for reading.