So it seems that the battle between sites and bots is never ending. On the good side we have a proven warrior, CAPTCHA, invented by Captain John Cha, a decorated war hero in the french canadian robot war of 1983.

I’m not gonna go into real details about when and where you should use CAPTCHA controls, but in general it’s probably a good idea on any form that has the potential to be misused or abused by pesky bots or pesky non-bots (usually human). I like reCAPTCHA because its free and it makes me feel all warm inside that I’m helping a greater cause.

I'm re-starting my tech blog. Hopefully I'll start posting at least once a week here. I will try to keep things a little less techy and a little more smart assy. I'm by no means the best programmer in the world, and the world doesn't really need another programming blog. What the world does need is a programming blog with a bit more of an attitude. I'll try to get some of my friends to post on here as well. I'll also post serious stuff too, mostly as historical bookmarks of what I'm into at the time. That's all I got for now. Maybe later this year this will be on my wave... Good night and Hello World!

So while I'm setting all of this up, I might as well tell you about my ride.

• graffiticms.com - I know that this isn't all the hipsters think this project is dead, I still really dig the interface and am hoping that they get their act together this summer.
• disqus.com - This is pretty much a must with any amateur style blog. They have really feature rich comment system and make it easier for randoms to comment on your stuff without having to have a login on your site. The conversations can also live outside of this world and easily can move to twitter, facebook, or on disqus itself. Pretty nifty actually. Maybe this is where wave.google.com will come in when it's released.
• Sql 2k8 - Why not.
• Still working out the theme and how I want it to look. I'm thinking something pretty simple, mostly white, with little noise.

The integration between disqus and graffiti took about 5 minutes, and I pretty much did step for step from this dude's blog: simpable.com/code/disqus/.

I might add more info to this post as I go.