It only took two minutes..

...for the blog/comment spam to start after I put up the first post. So, to prevent spambots from posting, the flags are on to require you to be a "registered user" and that you fill out the "word verification" test (the little bit where you are presented a box with an image of a jumble of letters, and you have to stroke in the text you see)when posting a comment.Sorry, else you would be seeing an algae bloom of spam in the comments area.