Tell me, oh LiveJournal...

One of my old entries has been attracting odd comments; it's a piece I wrote last March about LJ's charging structure. The comments aren't identical, and they aren't link spam, but they are all anonymous, and they all say something like "well done, dude". Must be spam, right? Not that I object to people agreeing with me, but still...

I delete the comment, and a little later it's re-posted.

So tell me, LJ, can I block anonymous comments on that one entry? I see how to block all comments, but then the previous comments disappear, and they are relevant and helpful to the discussion, so I don't want that). Currently I've set it to screen anonymous comments - is that the nearest equivalent to blocking them?

And does anyone know what is going on here?

Life in the North

Yesterday's Observer magazine visits Lord Redesdale and his fellow members of the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership: "We only call ourselves the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership because if we called it the Grey Squirrel Annihilation League people might be a bit less sympathetic."

Journalist Tim Adams is simultaneously sympathetic and bemused: "A couple of years ago, [Redesdale] said, he felt he had been lacking purpose in his life. He had the peerage, his work, his wife, Helen (a lawyer), four wonderful kids, a house in north London, and the cottage and several hundred tenanted acres in the valley that bears his name, but he was lying awake wondering about the meaning of it all. 'Now,' he said, trying to suppress a giggle, 'I lie awake working out how to kill squirrels.'" In case you didn't recognise the name, he's a Mitford.

The article made me laugh quite a lot, but, for the avoidance of ambiguity, I am pretty much with Mitford on this one. Not to his level of obsession - I'm as susceptible as the next person to the impudent charm of the individual grey squirrel - but I can see that if the red squirrel is to survive, then large areas must be cleared of greys.