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Another crowdsource task to the rescue! I was listening to Steve and Leo talk about reCAPTCHA on Security Now and thought I’d lend a hand in making OCR software better while having the side benefit of protecting the comments from spambots. Check it out by listening to the show and leaving me a comment after! The plugin I installed gives two words to enter (one a computer can read, one a computer cannot) to prove that a human is on the other side of the screen before you can get to the comment area of the site. Also, check out the CAPTCHA website for more info.

In the “webpage to follow” department, I was reading Federal Computer Week and found out about the Federal Elections Committee web site which shows campaign donations by state for the upcoming election ‘08, and it was a total eye opener! It’s just interesting to me as to how money pans out in politics, no matter the party affiliation.

We’ve had a sort of tech revival here at home as my children have picked up the “Cold War Game Boy” to play games like Pokemon (Blue) and Tetris. And then Carol the coworker gave me a GB color for them to fight over! I love it! Now if I could just get my hands on an Atari 2600 or an Apple IIc+, I’d be in the 80s forever! Good times, indeed.

I was just listening to This Week In Tech #101 and it turns out that two hours later over 100 security flaws were found in the Safari browser for Windows.  Woops!  As to whether the blame is on Apple or on Microsoft remains to be seen, however, I’m still behind browser competition, or any competition for that matter.  Anyone for tennis? 

I have about 4 more ducks waiting to be received by friends Franz and Brian, and that leads me to 1 duck away from a duck a week for the first year of this blog.  Donations are wayyyyy up this month.  I’ve also talked to Brian about a widget for the wordpress contest that appeals to my geekitude.  I can think things up, but I can’t get much farther than the drawing board.  Brian has the black belt in coding. 

And on the self improvement front, I got Dave Allen’s “Getting Things Done” and actually got up and ran this morning.  It’s time to streamline my life physically and mentally.  Spiritually, I got God, and God is good.