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title: 'A Brief Technical Aside'
date: '2010-12-20T20:41:00-05:00'
permalink: /a-brief-technical-aside/
tags:
    - blogging
---

Just to note that in the, what, four or five days since I’ve added the ReCaptcha plugin here, I’ve received a total of seven spam comments. In a similar span of time before adding the ReCaptchas, I’d have had upwards of 1500 — almost all of them caught by Akismet, but nonetheless taking up bandwidth and brainspace. Thanks, bot-foilers!