It has just been brought to my attention by my brother that some of you may have had problems leaving comments on this site. To help stop the massive amounts spam comments that had been flooding this blog, I installed and activated a Captcha-based security measure when I redid the site a month or so ago. I thought everything had been working right (not a drop of spam since then), but apparently there’s a case where the security code can’t be seen!

Sorry!

For the time being, I have turned off this “secret image” security measure. It will remain turned off until a) the site gets hammered with spam again or b) I find a way to fix the problem.

In case I have to turn it back on before I fix the issue, I’ll briefly tell you the way around the issue.

When you enter your name, email, etc. on the comment form and have cookies enabled, your browser will remember this information so you won’t have to type it in every time you want to leave a comment. The blog will see you as “logged in” to the site, so next time you that you visit you won’t see the name, email, etc. fields. Instead you see a message stating “Welcome back, <name>.” However, when the comment form is loaded and the name, email, etc. fields “disappear” if you’re logged in, so does the secret image box. To see the secret image, simply click the “Change” link next to the “Welcome back” message.

Sorry for the inconvenience! I hope this hasn’t frustrated too many of you, or made you think I was blocking you from the site…

[Update: Well, the spam was starting to come back in force again. Just a trickle at first, but more of a stream lately. That didn't take long... I've turned the security code back on, but I've made it so the comment form information wouldn't be hidden.]