Gordon's Notes

Weatherby healthcare  hires physicians for “locum tennis” roles. That’s filling in for someone on holiday and the like. They’ve contracted ...

The FCC wants a vast and unmanageable array of voice communications carriers to fix the robocall plague . I’m here to tell you what will ha...

Since the election we've received a nightly phone call with a Caller ID of MN DFL party and a return number of 651-251-6300. As others h...

The GOP may have a loose relationship with the falsifiable world, but they're tight where it matters. They have money by the truckload, ...

My most loyal commenter (that's you Martin) tells me he can't solve Google's CAPTCHAs any more. Neither can I. I responded ... I...

We've come a long way baby. A year ago Nordstrom's began offering optional email receipts as "a convenient, environmentally f...

I don't like paying $20/month for our AT&T unlimited texting family plan. After all, it costs AT&T next to nothing to provide S...

Google's spam comment detection isn't good enough. After a one month test I've given up and restored a captcha function (yech) ...

There's a rumor that Google is going to acquire  Groupon for a zillion dollars. I signed up to see what it was about. Naturally I used...

It took me a day to realize that this comment on  Gordon's Notes: Apologetics: God and the Fermi Paradox was a spam comment (Spomment):...

I'm a good commie. Each cycle we  give some money to help Dems. Not this election though. Partly, that's because my team's spa...

Blogger, long left for dead, tottered into the pub this week. Among other signs of life,  there's a new comment spam filtering system ....

Comment spam continues its rapid evolution . Despite my reluctant surrender to the Captcha I'm seeing novel mutations every few months....

First generation spam was pretty bad, but it's more or less under control now. Between sharpening spam recognition algorithms, crowd sou...

I dislike Captcha (usually a text recognition test) as much as anyone -- but lately my email has been clogged with notices of blog comments ...

I own a few domains, including a Google Apps domain we use for our family [1]. My immediate family members, excluding Kateva (canid), have ...

Lately I've been getting blog comments that blur the spam/non-spam species boundary. Comment spam used to be pretty clear. It would be u...

Conde Nast, publishers of Gourmet and other periodicals, holds a place of dishonor among the world's scummiest spammers . It will be a ...

I've been enjoying Facebook , though the iPhone client is overdue for an overhaul. My conclusions about what's interesting with FB a...

Beck when machines had trouble solving simple Captchas, they weren't a bad idea. Now the machines are much better at solving them than...