THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

In addition to adding the search box for the blog, [see the box above Yoda to the right] we've adding something else tonight.  A bit of “intelligence testing”.  You see like every other “good thing” is this world, we were being overwhelmed in MVP blog land with blog “spam”.  Christian in particular was getting totally nailed.  Thus tonight we added a CAPTCHA to the blog.  A what you say?  A technique to ensure that only humans are posting comments to the blog.  We're using a variation of “Gimpy” to visually distort a random number or word.  At the present time, only humans can process this and convert this distorted image.  CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.  Steven Toub talks about captcha in this MSDN article.  Stefano Demiliani and Brian Desmond both have to be thanked...first for Stefano for sending over the Captcha code to add to the blog and then the adjustments to postcomment.aspx and then to Brian Desmond to kindly fix this “blonde's” inability to adjust the web.config properly in the first place.  I had the extra code needed in the wrong place.  Brian also helped to identify the additional code lines that I needed to add to the other “skins” that Stefano didn't have so I could keep the LuxInteriorLight skin that I have.

So now when you go to comment, there's a bit of a funky distorted image down there that you have to type in before you are allowed to submit.  I'm sorry about the inconvenience, and I hope you understand it's just there because bad guys and spammers are jerks.

Why they think people will buy stuff off of blog comments ... I have no idea...but obviously someone must click and follow there stupid links otherwise they wouldn't do it.  So do your part, will you?  Tell folks that blog comment spam should be avoided.  Don't give them any more reason to do it in the future.