posted by Jane Ellen+ at
5:13 AM
Thoughts, observations, and the occasional sermon from a transplanted Episcopal priest, wife and mother.
Ado in Mississippi
AKMA's Random Thoughts
And Also With Raisin
Bruce's Idle Wanderings
Costly Grace with the Archer
Fr. Jake Stops the World
Fr. John and Thomas a Kempis
Gord, Following Frodo
Heather's Rambling
In a Godward Direction
Inner Dorothy
Jeff's Sacristy
Jo(e)'s Page
Justin's Wanderings
Kathryn, Good in Parts
The Kitchen Door
Larry's Raw Edges
Life with Cliff
The Lovely Wife
Mark's Family Letter
MaryBeth at Terrapin Station
Nueva Cantora
Padre Mickey's Dance Party
Preacher Mom
Preludium
Quotidian Grace
Rambling Rector
Raw Edges
Rebel Without a Pew
RevAbi
Rev. Dr. Mom
Reverend Mommy
Reverend Mother
The Reverend Mother, Jennifer
Reverend Ref+ Todd
RevHoney
St. Casserole
SiBlog
Singing Sophia
Songbird
Stone of Witness
Theospora
Telling Secrets
Trevor's Limature
Tripp's Conjectures
Volume II for kzj
Wes' Dawg Days
Domestic Violence Services
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Episcopal Relief and Development
Feminists for Life
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
St. Mary's Services
Episcopal News Service
Get Religion
God's Politics
The Lead
Thinking Anglicans
Conservative Blog for Peace
Titus One Nine
Daily Office Lectionary
Desperate Preacher
The Lectionary Page
Speaking to the Soul
The Text This Week
Diocese of Spokane
All Saints' Episcopal Church
(my congregation)
Diocese of Northern Indiana
(the home place)
Purdue University
(alma mater I)
Seabury-Western Seminary
(alma mater II)
Church of Jesus Christ, Reconciler
University of Chicago Hospitals
(CPE site)
St. Philip's, Jackson, MS
(Plunge site)
The Disseminary
Indiana Blogs!
Wikipedia
WSI
Zimmerman Art Glass
Beauty Tips for Ministers
Cake Wrecks
Diocese of Wenchoster
Holy Observer
Larking About
LOLCats
The Onion
Onion Dome (Twisted Orthodoxy)
Post Secret
Reverend Fun
Ship of Fools
There, I Fixed It/a>
Yarn Harlot
9 Comments:
Cool, it works.
I wonder why the "password" is written all squigly. I've seen others where it is nearly impossible to read. I suppose people think that's fooling any computer trying to spam their sites... But last I checked computers couldn't automatically read graphics. Can they?
I'm worried that is my advanced age that has me reading the letters wrong!
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I asked in a comment where you found the word-verification setting in Blogger, then did the sensible thing and went off to find it myself. :^)
Thanks for pointing out this feature; I haven't relished the idea of denying anonymous comments just to keep out the spambots.
Mark: According to my resident expert, computers can read regular typefaces-- even when the file is a jpeg, and not text. The wiggles allow human eyes to do the regular pattern recognition, but stymie that feature in a spambot. At least, that's the party line. We'll see if it works.
Mark, Jane,
Yep, it's called Optical Character Recognition, or OCR. Been around for years.
Our scanner has OCR software what will pull the text out of a scanned document. It used to be that you had to have specific typefaces (e.g., OCR-A and OCR-B) for this to work, but no longer.
If you have a Palm or Pocket PC, you know that handwriting recognition has gotten pretty good. Good enough that most handwritten zipcodes are handled by the automated mail sorters.
Hence, the squiggly, misaligned characters in the verifications. It's probably possible to OCR these, but it's not worth the effort for a spambot when there is so much easy prey around.
(Can you point and say "geek"?)
Wow. I thought blogger blogs were somewhat protected from that. Foolish me. Was your new protection from blogger or another source?
Never mind. I found the answer on the blogger setting page.
Thanks, I just added it to my blog, too.
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