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A couple of suggestions:

• use Mollom, which is best of breed (and also has blacklists) - you will still have some comments swoosh on through, but not very many
• set new accounts to NOT require email verification - folks have already jumped through a captcha to create an account, and then they can get right to commenting, rather than wait for email to arrive etc. etc.
• install something like RPX, which at the free level allows people to use Twitter, Google, Facebook etc. etc. to login to your site with

Looking at the user list, it actually looks like you’ve got some spam users (BudgetBlankets, really?).

Fight the good fight!

Peter, I’m really liking what’s going on here. Any chance you would release the source code of the page(s) you use to access your class?

Back then, it was more of a port. Now, it is more of a recreation area. They are mutually exclusive. You say it is dramatic improvement. Maybe you are right, maybe not. But, the audacity of “no arguing”? Certainly if one equates less commerce with improvement, they you will garner support. Those who consider and recognize the value of a port to commerce might have a different view.

Here’s something else that people should worry about. This is a serious design flaw in the Echo/Yaris models. The forward pillars on each side of the windshield are thicker than most cars (designed for crash safety). Unfortunately, they reduce visibility in that they totally block pedestrians, cyclists or motorists. This is not just my claim. This is backed up by Australia’s NRMA. See below: http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=62121 I’ve had an accident where I hit somebody because I didn’t see him. Fortunately he wasn’t hurt, but he could have been. I feel that no matter how careful I am now, another accident could happen. I believe I’m stuck with the Toyota Echo now. A word of advice for future Echo buyers? It may be cute, but be careful. What you don’t see can cost you.

Actually, its called an Opto-map… Dr. Hickey has had this machine for about 6 years now. Its not necessarily new technology, but it sure beats getting those drops in your eyes!! Plus, the images make pretty cool wallpaper..

My son had this done years ago. It is called the Otto Map. In the pictures, they picked up “bear tracks” which indicates he is a candidate for a certain type of cancer in his future years. Now, he and his doctor are aware of this and will have the head’s up to catch this disease before it gets too far advanced.

Hi Peter When I linked to your Stanhope reference I was reminded of the errors that are in the mapping Google Maps uses for Stanhope. Not that Gookle is alone in this error - Microsoft uses the same source for their mapping data and so did the Provimce until recently. The Maps of the penninsula contain “roads” that are actually unexercised or lapsed rights of way.The map shows Allie’s Lane connecting with three roads running at right angles to it, Old Sam Road connecting to Seaman’s Lane and Rupert’s Road branching to enter the National Park to the left and run a distance to the right. The roads are undeveloped rights of way and do not actually connect as mapped. The errors are repeated on Bing maps and geotracking devices that use the same mapping layers. I started reporting this error in the mapping system to the Province several years ago after an ambulance call to Old Sam went astray. It was reported that the driver was using a geotracking device to locate the call. The Province recently made changes to it’s online mapping that correct the problem. But who do you complain to for the rest of the world and how they view our little penninsula?

Interesting how they mirror each other, but not exactly. Like how our left and right finger prints differ, but gorier. I always think I’m looking at a fertilized chicken egg when I see these photos.

Well, after attending community meetings, giving a radio interview and fighting with Aliant personnel in the lobby of the phone company..I rec’d hard wired High Speed internet today here in Mount Buchanan. On this day, at the very least, I am very happy to join the big world off island and thank Aliant for having the good sense to realize that Islanders were NOT going to let this one go. I’m still concerned about the additional 1,000, plus or minus a few hundred or so families still waiting….Let’s keep this one alive until EVERYONE that wants it …has it.

Southwest’s post seems to have been taken down. I think Smith’s justly outraged, more or less, and I was rapt for while, but really two hours is more than I want to hear probably anybody going on about such an experience—which isn’t alien or exotic or something that I or many other people go through and find ourselves outraging about. It’s nice that new media make all this testimony available instantly everywhere and for eternity, but obviously if everybody did as Kevin Smith, there would be no listening or sorting through it all—let alone analysis or criticism. If it humiliates you when somebody indicates that they can see what is visible to everybody (that more than, say, 25% of your size and weight is fat), is it the fault of the person or company indicating it? What if we were talking about height? In that regard, some of Kevin Smith’s outrage is misplaced, and we might be better off hearing somebody go on about our psychology and culture.

Hi, thanks for the link. I’m not sure if we’ve met, I’m Lou’s sister Margot. My kids were too young to know Lou, so these bits and pieces of things I can find on line are really appreciated.