August 15, 2008

More about reCAPTCHA

Here's a nice article I spotted today in my RSS feeds that gives some insight into reCAPTCHA, the system I implemented here on the blog last week.

Enjoy!
- Aaron

P.S. Screw you, spammers. :)

August 5, 2008

halfpress.com Update

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that I've upgraded MovableType today to the latest version. The version I was running before was quite old and it's been on my "to do" list for ages now.

There are new features I'll try to utilize once I have time to explore them, but my goal for now was to not destroy the current site while gaining the ability to implement captchas on the comment system. Comment spammers have been hammering me to death for years and I finally hit my frustration limit. I'd call spammers the sub-human scum of the earth, but that would be an insult to scum. Scum serves more of a purpose and, as little as I appreciate scum, I respect it infinitely more than I respect spammers.

But I digress...

Anyway, I've implemented reCaptcha on the comment forms, so if you take a moment to leave comments on here, you'll also be helping digitize books! As a Kindle owner, I appreciate your efforts. :)

More to come...

- Aaron