Yes, there's been hyper activity on the spam front recently. Daily bunches of first time posts with nothing but links. It's getting quite boring to be zapping stuff repeatedly. These spammers never learn do they?

I guess, many including me have shifted to more powerful platforms like ARM and easy entry platforms like the arduino. ARM-Cortex M0 has the best bang for the buck. I still maintain my code done over many years using PICBASIC though. But, yes, it is getting quiet in here.