Lots and lots of nasty comment spam that Dreamhost is now noticing on the database that runs bplusd. At their suggestion, I’m upgrading to the latest version of wordpress, which will break my theme and some IA.

UPDATE: looks like it broke more than that (category names didn’t come over, so they are all blank, and posts aren’t showing up)

However, having over 22 thousand comment spam in moderation makes the argument for technological progress even if design suffers. Silver lining - I’ve been noodling on a redesign, and this is a good motivator. In the meantime, I’ll stick with a prebaked theme….