Monday, April 17, 2006

Never let a good deed go unpunished

You try to do your bit for society, and all you get is a captcha?

Longtime readers of this blog may know that I maintain an RSS feed for the articles at robert-fisk.com. It's part of the bad-karma-reduction deal that I have going with the Big Man in the Sky.

Anyway, there has not been any new articles posted there for more than three months. The site's owner finally got around to updating it today, and I had a lot of catching up to do: 24 articles, to be exact.

No problem. I quickly got into zombie automaton mode, and began posting the links one by one. Only problem was, this behaviour triggered the bot-sniffers at blogger.com, and the &*%$ started prompting me with captchas.