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This companion blog mainly hosts links that I want to mark for later reference. It's my virtual collection. As I read through literally thousands of blog postings, patterns naturally reveal themselves. Hey, it's a hobby that I enjoy. All links are gathered manually, i.e., I do not use any kind of automated search query. I figure I might as well share what I've found. Plus, I'm using this as a tester blog, so you might see a few oddities from time to time.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

CAPTCHA controversy

Since I've turned off my word verification, the amount of anonymous spam has increased tenfold. Before this, most of the spam I received was not anonymous (read: fake names that link to sites that try to sell something). I hate to turn off anonymous comments, since I do get some great comments from non-bloggers, but this is starting to get ridiculous.

ps 02/29/12 - OK, now I'm seriously getting peeved. What is google doing messing with something that worked just fine. Is this because of the new privacy settings that will come into effect tomorrow 03/01/12? What happened to subscribing to comments?

http://swanscot.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/captcha-rant/
http://hwyfly.blogspot.com/2012/02/public-service-annoucement.html
http://run-a-roundranch.blogspot.com/2012/02/word-verification-woes.html
http://birdsfod.blogspot.com/2012/02/laysan-teal-slimbridge-wwt.html

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