The brains at Google have had a brilliant idea: identify user-submitted links on a blog via a special tag and then don’t follow them. This means that the assholes who make comment spam posts will have less incentive, since Google won’t index the links and thus increase the PageRank of their crappy phentermine scam pages. I’m going to have a go at implementing it here.
Important Note
This site features content going all the way back to 2000. The posts you’ll read reflect my views and writing style at the time. While I have gone back to clean up a few of them, I think it’s important not to sanitise too much. This site is a record of who I am and how I’ve grown. Any blog post written years ago may not reflect who I am today, nor how I would write about the same topic today.