The amount of spam that hits this site on a daily basis is pretty stag­ger­ing and annoyed me very much — but I grit my teeth and dealt with it because I didn’t want to make the few read­ers I have suf­fer through the making-your-eyes-bleed atro­cit­ies called CAPTCHA. Now I have found an altern­at­ive which not only doesn’t make your eyes bleed, it is also fun.

You want to make a com­ment on my site? You have to play a little game. Easy as that. Go on, try it out!

EDIT: How you can get cool spam pro­tec­tion, too:

Go to this web­site: http://areyouahuman.com/ and register for an account. The basic func­tion­al­ity is free. If your blog runs on Word­Press or Drupal you can down­load a plug-in that does the heavy lift­ing for you. Also, their instruc­tions are easy to fol­low.
There are also plug-ins for phpBB mes­sage boards, Invi­sion Power boards, and vbulletin.

If you are like me, the neces­sity to install Ori­gin in order to be able to play Mass Effect 3 gave you more than just a little head­ache. I value the my pri­vacy — be it online or off­line — very highly. The spy­ing potien­tial of Ori­gin pre­ven­ted me from pre-ordering the game so far.

Luck­ily for all of us, poster Blue­fall on Live­journal just pos­ted a very nice tutorial on how you can quar­ant­ine Ori­gin with Sand­boxie.

I <3 you, Bluefall. :)