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Using your time wisely…

I’ve installed reCaptcha on my site in an effort to slow the tide of spam that my site is receiving. Before I installed reCaptcha Askimet was blocking nearly 80 per day. After reCaptcha was installed this dropped to 2 per week. Recently however it shot up. I got 4 yesterday, and this morning I woke to 22 waiting moderation.

That means that in all likelihood some poor soul sat there and typed in all 22 posts and typed in the Captcha texts. Why? Don’t they realise that it won’t get seen as comments will be screened? The fact there is a Captcha service installed means the owner of the site has some sense of decency and sorry, whoever you are, you’ve just wasted your (and unfortunately my) time.

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Permanently borked?

Less than a day after reinstalling Windows, the reason I performed the reinstall is back – and the software that caused it hasn’t been installed yet.

Or rather it can’t. The reason is everytime I do a reinstall I decide to go more legit than the last time and this time round instead of running my bootlegged version of Visual Studio 2005 I downloaded the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition, but no the installer says I need XP. Since that I have the flashing msiexec everytime I boot, access a network resource, my cd/dvd drive, etc. So now I need to do another reinstall.

At times like this I seriously consider running maybe Ubuntu, but then I remember that I play games and watch DVD’s. So I guess I need a copy of XP (I am not running Vista on my machine – how on earth Microsoft thought people would pay £200+ for an OS is beyond me).

So another ruined weekend for me…

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4020

Since we’ve been living at the wigwam for nearly a year, it was decided that we had to get the last of my gear from my friends house where it has been living in storage.

Finally got everything unpacked, and when unpacking the DVD’s it turns out that I had bought two 2010 from Amazon. Dunno why it let me, but I have two copies of it both of which are still in cellophane.

If anyone wants one of them, then you can have it for 3.50 (and that includes p+p).

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