At Last, My Love Has Come Home

My intrepid laptop Jonas has returned! Receptionist, who handles deliveries: "How come you're always getting these boxes?" I'm not holding my breath that I won't be sending it out again before the G5 comes along . . . because I would be dead.

On a different note: trackbacks. I probably exterminate at min 300 trackback spam a day, and because I'm running this blog on the cheap, the MT Blacklist tool I use invariably times out as soon as it begins�meaning that 1) the process takes a lot longer than it should and 2) the posts don't rebuild, so the spam remains in some purgatorial state until I rebuild (thereby shuttling them all to hell). Which takes more time and also invariably times out before the entire site is rebuilt.

I managed to more or less eliminate comment spam by changing the name of the comment directory (by "I managed," of course, I mean, "I managed to pester my roommate's visiting guest with so many questions that he eventually did it for me, all the while muttering something about 'what kind of man can't use secure shells' or something"). Would that do the trick for trackback spam, and if so, can I ask you a few questions? Or: Is there a plugin that will close the trackback functionality on posts after a few days? I would eliminate the trackback function altogether, but if I'm going to get under the hood of the blog, might as well see if there's a way to fix it.