Links Lost

My apologies to all who’ve posted comments on this site. Your remarks are all lost to the world but I know your words and I thank you for them. In an act of temporary insanity caused by the relentless spammers I apparently happened to press the delete key one to many times. But it brings to the table the query: Spam. Who needs it? Who wants it? Who the fuck sends it and finally what evil demon wants people to check out their crap through an illicit mail?

I’m not gonna pretend I truly comprehend the ways of these wicked and lesser beings, but I have taken necessary measures against them by providing the reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin. It takes you another 15 seconds to post your much appreciated comment, but saves me a lot of time and wasted energy. But wait, as the creators explain:

“While the world is in the process of digitizing books, sometimes certain words cannot be read. reCAPTCHA uses a combination of these words, further distorts them, and then constructs a CAPTCHA image. After a ceratin percentage of users solve the ‘uknown’ word the same way it is assumed that it is the correct spelling of the word. This helps digitize books, giving users a reason to solve reCAPTCHA forms. Because the industry level scanners and OCR software which are used to digitize the books can’t read the words with which the CAPTCHAs are constructed, it is safe to assume that in-house spam-bot OCR techniques will not be able to bypass the CAPTCHA either.”

So please keep them comments coming. You might “save the world” a smidgen while you do it. At least it doesn’t hurt. Download the file below and loop it at home and after an hour at max volume, you’ll know how much I enjoy spam.