More Housekeeping...Captcha probably returning

I gave it a shot, folks, but I'm getting comment spam on an hourly basis. I suppose I could just dump it all once a day, but it's clogging up my inbox. I'm probably going to put the Captcha back on, and complain to Google. This will result in my being ignored, and it will piss you off. Perhaps YOU could complain to Google about their Captcha?

A Little Housekeeping

I've had complaints recently about the "Captcha" verification for comments, so I've turned it off. If I get a ton of spam to deal with...I may have to turn it back on. Just letting you know.

Experimenting with Book Updates

Blogger has added the option to create pages...which will enable me to get most of the useful day-to-day stuff off my largely moribund website and put it up here. I'm fiddling with it (because I want to make sure I can point to it in the new edition of Pennsylvania Breweries), and it's working. So...if you see some kind of thing pop up on the blog and then disappear...that's what's going on. Thought you'd like to know. Back to work.

Does this look right?

Just a housekeeping post... Does the blog look right? It looks to me like Google/Blogger changed the line spacing and maybe tweaked things up on the fonts, too.

Or maybe I'm just losing it.

Comment verification now in place

The comment spam has continued to be a problem, so I've turned on the verification. It's a pain, I know, but plenty of other blogs have it, and I'd just as soon not deal with the spam. Especially this comment spam. (Believe it or not, since I put this in place, I've had someone try to spam-by-hand my post on my dad's pancreatic cancer with a 'I can sell you vicodin on-line' crapshoot. That's really low, like human-garbage low.)

Carry on.

Comment Spam Explodes

I've had comment moderation on for years, thanks to a couple real jerkwads who insisted on polluting the blog. But I've never had much problem with "blogspam," comments full of advertising and links to crapsites, and I just rejected them. I got maybe one every other week.

Yesterday, all of a sudden, I got twelve, and it's continuing today. So I'm considering adding CAPTCHA tech to the comment field; that thing where you have to type in the 'word' you see in a window before your comment will post. I don't want to do this -- it's a pain in your neck -- but neither do I want to have my time sucked up by rejecting a bunch of "Miley Cyrus NUD!" spam, you know?

So...will having to do that one extra step be a real pain in all your butts? Or is it no big deal? Let me know, and I'll factor that in before I decide. And who knows, this may just be temporary.