The past few weeks has brought an upswing in blog spam. Comments get posted with generic and harmless (not to mention unrelated) messages and believable e-mail addresses. But what’s this, the URL is something like http://somecompleteripoff-selling-viagra-or-prozac-or-something-more-unsavory.net!

The point of the spam is to help the folks at http://totalandutterwanker.com improve their ranking on Google. It’s a technique known as Google Bombing, and it works (as an example, see Google results for miserable failure and unelectable). It is, however, annoying; I got four spam comments this morning. If this continues I shall have to look into an automated comment scanning system.