Quick post. Basically I’m getting tired of all the ‘nice post’, ‘interesting read’ yada yada posts that link back to pharmaceutical companies and people trying to sell placebo medication to people stupid and desperate enough to buy into that shit.

Even though akismet does a fantastic job, I still have to sift through this crap. So I’ve implemented a reCaptcha system on all comments and also all emails (both in posts and in comments) have been hidden via reCaptcha. If you don’t know how this works, it basically transforms exam...@example.com into ex….@example.com and you have to click on the dots and answer a quick reCaptcha in order to reveal the email.

It’s a small inconvenience (mostly because some times it’s hard to read the captcha and you have to keep clicking the little refresh button) but due to 90% of the worlds computer users being pretty stupid about stuff like security (and hence their machines are zombies in some botnet) i cant simply block all traffic from Nigeria, china and Russia (and it wouldn’t be nice for the 0.000001% of this sites viewers that are from those regions and are not spammers or bots). Plus the reCaptcha system actually is useful since it takes your responses and uses them to aid in recognition of unknown words that occur during the digitisation process of books (see http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html)

Right, finally got a blog and a site and domain (although i might get a few more, cooler domains). This site is going to need A LOT of time and love before i can call it usable. In the mean time there isn’t going to be much here.