I really, really hope that none of Automattic’s investors run into this post about people using Akismet as a weapon against commenters who piss them off, because not only is it, well, about the potential for Akismet abuse, but there’s some seriously weird stuff going on in the comments with Matt pretending to be somebody else (or somebody else pretending to be Matt), and Mark saying to ignore it, and the blogger not believing that either of them are kosher because if they were, wouldn’t they do the professional thing and email him? Certainly they wouldn’t be running around making each other look stupid.

This time of year, I just assume everyone is drunk. It explains a lot. Like the snow, which apart from being annoying makes my PC’s fan go like crazy every time it appears. (Newsflash: not everyone on the planet got a new computer for Christmas.) Or last year’s pretend sale. (It’s hilarious that a company valued at millions is still too cheap to pay me the five measly dollars it owes me, but then I suppose if they were scrupulous about such things it would be harder to amass the millions in the first place.)