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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Comments

Our fearless founder Denise noticed some untoward comments on her blog. So I checked the comments on this blog and found about 500 spam comments, all in the last four months (since 26 Jan 2013, to be precise), and most on old posts, which I have deleted. Only one was porn, BTW.

What to do now?

Basically there are five choices, as I see it.

1. Do nothing. That's not a viable option as I would spend WAY too much time deleting spam.
2. Use word verification. I know some of you use it, and I do understand why you do. But as a personal preference, I HATE WV.
3. Approval of all comments. Seems to cut the free flow of the discussion, and makes more work for me. I do this on my own blogs, and that's effort enough.
4. Approval of comments after so many days, since most spam is on older posts. I have done this; it was 8 days, but I changed it to 15 when I:
5. Eliminated anonymous comments, which is virtually all the problem, by utilizing Open ID, which you can read about HERE. It should work with those of you who are using most blogging products. I hope this is not too onerous. If so, write to me at rogerogreen [at] gmail [dot] com.

T is for

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA : Fear of the number Thirteen.

Does the Thought of Thirteeen fill you with Terror?

Well, here's a Thought.

Our next round of ABC Wednesday is round Thirteen.

For some Time, the Team has Trusted me to design a new logo/badge for each round.

What should it be for Thirteen?

Here's a TeaserThink... Lucky Thirteen!

Tune in soon for more details.

And in the meantime let's see what T inspired Thing you have to share this week.

Thanks,
Troy

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Sunday, 19 May 2013

S of Seasons

We have now arrived at the letter S

The S of Seasons
The S of Snow and Skating
The S of Spring  and Swans breeding
The S of Summer
The S of September's Autumn
The S of Spiders

The S of Snow


and Skating


The S of  Spring


and Swans breeding

The S of  Summer

The S of September's Autumn

S of  Spiders


If you take part in this game, please use the letter S in a photo, or in a poem, a story...whatever, and refer to the founder of this meme:Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and Roger who took over from her.Or show the logo of this meme in your post, or (like I do) in the sidebar.



I hope to see you all!

Wil, ABCW Team


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Sunday, 12 May 2013

The R in the Month

Photos from Wikipedia

There 's a good girl!!

Oh,come on!!

You're a big boy now...


























































 When I think of the letter R,  I immediately  see before my mind's eye  a bottle of cod-liver oil!
Huh??
Yes, cod-liver oil!!

My mum used to say:" the R is in the month, which means, that you children, will get a spoonful of cod-liver oil every night before going to bed!". And so we had to swallow that nasty tasting stuff from September till May. My mum said it was healthy and protected us against all kind of diseases.
When my children were still very young, my doctor advised me to give them a similar medicine, which tasted a lot better because of the orange juice in it. And again as soon as the R was taking place in the winter months, I gave the children a spoonful of the stuff  and they didn't like it either. When April was over and May had begun, I stopped giving them this medicine!


If you take part in this game, please use the letter R in a photo, or in a poem, a story...whatever, and refer to the founder of this meme:Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and Roger who took over from her.Or show the logo of this meme in your post, or (like I do) in the sidebar.

I hope to see you all!

Wil, ABCW Team


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