Over the last year, I was getting overwhelmed by spam comments and very few legitimate ones.  With a major trip (Ecuador, Colombia, Caribbean & the USA) looming, I was messing around trying to stop the spam and ended up turning the whole comment system off.  I had intended to fix this after returning from the trip but then things happened in my personal life and I just never got around to it.  In the past, the spam just overwhelmed the legit commenters and I was exhausted.  This is just a hobby blog, I am not a full time professional blogger.

Anyway, in the New Year, I want to change that and want to make it easier for real commenters to post but still keep out spammers and decided to give Disqus a try.  I think their anti-spam blocking is better than anything I could come up with and I have seen this system used on many other blogs so it must be pretty good.  It doesn’t appear to work on older posts (unless I did something wrong) but anyway from this point forward, comment away!