Welcome to the Internet

I registered EdBartram.com recently to establish a (semi) professional site for myself. Last weekend I started working with a template to get the ball rolling. I didn't want to publish my email address because I knew I'd get spammed pretty quickly, so I built a contact form in ColdFusion. Four days later I receive a single email from the form containing a whole bunch of links in what appears to be Russian, in other words spam. Mind you, I'm still building the website, I haven't submitted it to any search engines. As far as I knew the site was completely off the radar. Just to prove it while writing this entry, I went to Google and ran a quick search on my domain. My site is listed! How and when did that happen? I checked Google's cached version, it says it was retrieved on the day after I put up the template!

Wow, that's quite a welcome to the Internet for my new site! It is on Google day 2 and received its first spam on Day 5! I can't wait to see what is next...