It’s Only Software

Hate this dialog?

Seen here and here. Posting so I don’t forget how to remove this darned thing in the future. Since I rarely shut my machines down, I find the dummy-proof-update feature of Windows incredibly annoying.

Since the spammers found my blog long before anyone else, I had enabled high levels of moderation on first using WordPress. This was mainly due to the fact that the only comments I got were links to various online pharmacy sites (hmm, “ph”ish and “ph”armacy do start with the same letters…).

To be more friendly to actual people, and unfriendly to robots, I’ve installed the reCAPTCHA plugin, which I believe should be a good mix of (1) anti-bot, (2) not too annoying or hard to read, and (3) provides something useful (book digitization). If anyone attempts to comment and runs into a problem, do let me know.

Really, this blog (hate the word) is mostly a set of personal notes for myself. If anyone else finds it interesting, great, but if not, at least I won’t forget something interesting

This is a perfect name for some kind of mashup relating to Slashdot. The only problem is that I can’t think of any data that could be sensibly mashed with Slashdot - can you?

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