Recently, I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of complimentary comments from Chinese people in my comment moderation queue. About 95% of these comments start with

写的不错，

and then go on to talk about something else. At first glance I felt pretty good, until I realized that they are ALL spam! They invariably [...]

According to The Register, two thirds of the world’s spam is sent by Taiwanese servers:

Almost two thirds (64 per cent) of servers controlling spam traffic are located in Taiwan, according to a survey by email security firm CipherTrust.
Such servers, used by internet low lives to relay spam and phishing emails through zombie, compromised PCs, are [...]

As my long-time readers know, I started my blog on Blogger at http://doubtingtoshuo.blogspot.com. I later moved it to http://toshuo.com mostly because John emailed me and told me I was blocked in China. Wordpress kind of annoyed me at the outset, but I’ve since gotten pretty accustomed to running a blog on my own [...]