Trying to type the title into a silly box - 29 October 2015

A second class TGV carriage. nice, eh?

A badge of honour. Yes, I've been blocked by @LibDemsforLeave...

No sooner do I question whether trying to persuade non-Lib Dems to follow a pro-Brexit Twitter account to boost its credibility is such a good idea, then I am blocked by it. So, that leaves me with a problem. Do I block it, or allow it to see how I ridicule it? Of course, as they're too scared to publicise their identities, their credibility lies in ruins anyway. Hell, if they're half as stupid as they take us to be, their chances of success are a bit thin...

Paint it grey...

What is it with the people who design the interiors of high-speed trains? I've taken a ride on Eurostar today and, just like Deutsche Bahn's ICE trains, the decor is multiple shades of grey. Could someone take a leaf out of SNCF's colour swatch please?...

On this day in... 2012

I was struggling with comments. I'd set my blog to allow comments without pre-moderation on my part (heaven only knows why) and Blogger uses CAPTCHA. I really don't like CAPTCHA and, as it turns out, I'm not alone...

CAPTCHA - a horribly necessary evil?

One of the things that I really hate about reading blogs is that bit when, just as you'd like to make a witty, erudite comment, you find yourself having to type something you can barely read into a box. It's called CAPTCHA, and I personally find it really annoying.

It was therefore a rather unpleasant surprise when the always entertaining Jennie Rigg noted, in passing, that the CAPTCHA on my blog was rather hard to read. This came as a surprise, as I hadn't even known that it was there. So, in a rather determined manner, I decided to remove it, discovering that I had set something called 'word verification'. This, it would appear, switches CAPTCHA on.

It felt good, I admit. At least, for about fifteen minutes, it did. And then, the wave of spam comments began to break over my inbox. Boy, are those spammers persistent! And annoying too. And yes, I can delete the e-mail notifications, and clear the comment moderation inbox from time to time, but I have rather better things to do with my time.

So, how can I solve the problem? Or do I just have to accept that CAPTCHA is a necessary evil? Or, would it work better if I changed the blog's colour scheme. You know more about this than I do, so what do you think?