Since I've upgraded Movabletype to 3.1whatever, and have installed the MT-Blacklist pluigin, comment spam is easier to deal with by far.
I've been looking for a new FTP client. Fetch 3.03 works fine for me, but it is the only program that I use (rarely, at that) that needs Classic to run. I plan to take a look at Cyberduck, which even on a cursory glance, seems to be what I'm looking for.
Conversation Killer is a plugin that'll close comments on old entries automatically, after a user-specified amount of time. It'll save me from having to go back and close things by hand, which would be nice. I really wish the List & Edit Entries screen of MT would allow me to find all the entries with open comments older than a selected number of days and close them to new comments.
