A battalion of right bastards has spent the last few days hammering Needcoffee with all manner of comment spam. And I mean hammering. Hammering as in that's why you may have run into problems getting to the freaking site.

Dreamhost–because they rock and we like them–smacked the IPs of the perps so they can't get to us. However I fear that may be temporary. If comments disappear on Needcoffee for a while, you'll know why: did some research to try and find a plug-in that would ward off some of this bullshit but half of them don't work and the other half are worse than that. And Akismet only snags the spam after it's already used your server resources. So fun.