Comment closure

This site has been experiencing a sudden upsurge in comment spam over the last week or so. I puzzled over it for a while before realising that I had upgraded this site from Movable Type 3.16 to 3.35 recently. A couple of test comments later I had established that the upgrade had broken my SCode installation. Pretty bloody annoying, to say the least. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be fixable, and furthermore there appears to be no working captcha solution for MT 3.3+, so commenting will be closed while I investigate the options.

Incidentally while trying to fix this I discovered that last year Arvind Satyanarayan had updated James Seng's original SCode 0.1c (which I was using until last week) to work with MT3.2 and re-christened it SCode 1.0, however after installing it today I am forced to conclude that it was broken by the introduction of MT 3.3. In any case it is irrelevant, since the new versions is now no longer supported by Arvind. Unfortunately you have to jump through a few hoops (email registration) to get to the plugin download page and when you do finally arrive there is no mention (despite several prominent PayPal donation buttons ) of this useful information.

Parallels Desktop 3 hasn't impressed everyone...

Or as one user so eloquently put it:

It is a f@#king useless, steaming freshly laid turd of a program with more bugs than a congolese jungle.

I've decided to hold off upgrading for the moment