Fighting comment SPAM

Comment SPAM has been an increasing problem on lekkimworld.com for the last couple of months. Today I implemented a simple mod_rewrite trick to ignore all HTTP POSTs without a referer and it seems to work beautifully. Some still get through but the numbers has dramatically decreased.

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Positive, competent, out-spoken, frank and customer focused architect and developer with a strong foundation in web, cloud and product development. I'm a strong advocate for API first and cloud based solutions and development. I have a knack for being able to communicate and present technically complicated matters in conference, customer and training settings. I've previously acted as team member and leader in a product organisation.