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Aren’t comment spammers just the best?

I’ve been writing on this and other previous blogs for about 3 and a half years (which I think is about 25 internet years), and during that time I have forgotten a lot of the great posts I wrote.

But tonight, as I was tossing out the spam, I checked a couple of the links to the posts that had been spammed, like this one - David Wiley on technology in schools - an oldie but still a goodie. If not for the spammers trying to clog my blog with their crap postings, I would never have thought to go and re-read it.

So thank you once again, spammers. I hope that my sincere appreciation helps to make you feel like a good person with a useful role in society despite the fact that you are being paid by the profits of pill-pushers, online casinos, and pornographers. If not for your ineffective attempts to leave comments (which need my approval before they actually get placed on the blog), I would not have had that chance to take a look at some of the content, humble as it may be, that I actually took the time to write and share with the world! You rock, dude!

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