A plug: Deleting spam messages from the comments was getting to be a chore. I felt like someone cleaning graffiti off their property every morning, but then I discovered MT-Blacklist (via this (dead link) site), which is excellent and if you use MT becomes a must have once the spammers have found you.
And plugging back: Yesterday, much to my surprise, this site appeared in The Guardian's Weblog as 'Top Blog'. (NB: this was 2004 and The Guardian no longer appear to maintain a page about blogs.)
Update: I'm now using Wordpress.
Update 2: Now using The world's fastest framework for building websites | Hugo just to keep my life difficult.
Update 3: Yup, switched again. I'm now using Eleventy - "a simpler static site generator".