With thanks to those who have utilized them properly, I have disabled trackbacks and pingbacks.
The problem: SPAM.
Sorry buttheads. You’re not getting a higher PageRank on my dime. And you can take your sweet comments about how wonderful my site is and shove them sideways where the sun don’t shine. Commenting e-mail addresses [...]

I’m gonna lump this all into one entry.

I UPGRADED TO WORDPRESS 1.5.2 - All by myself I might add. Usually I rely on the hosting control panel to do the job, but it always overwrites crap that I want to keep so this time I actually just read the instructions and did it myself. [...]