Why I didn't Comment on your Blog Post Today

 I didn't comment on your blog today. It's not that I found your blog post uninteresting and unworthy of consideration. It's not that I didn't have something to say to you about it.

It's because when I came to write my comment, I found you had the word verification step enabled. Which is a great trial to those of us with less-than-perfect vision. As is the alternative audio verification which tends towards the inaudible.

I may have tried, and failed, and given up. Or I may have saved myself the trouble and just given up in advance.

I used to like word verification, back when word verification words were less distorted and I could read them. I even collected interesting word verification words in a notebook. But technology marches on, and word verification words are now too unreadable for me.

My blogs don't have the word verification step. Instead, my blog posts are monitored. Some are monitored only after a certain number of days have passed since the post was made. On one--- a blog on a sensitive topic--- all posts are monitored.

I am not inundated by blog spam. In fact, I rarely have any. When I do, it is on older posts, and caught by the monitoring of older blog posts.

I'm sorry, blogger, that I wasn't able to comment on your blog post today. But since I could not, I at least thought I would let you know why.

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Holignes! I lost my notebook of cool word verification words!

When I am writing and a new character, place, or alien species pops up, I often take out a small notebook of word verification words I've encountered, and pick one more-or-less at random.

It's better for my writing than stopping the writing process to search for the perfect name for an hour and a half. And some of those word verification words are worth keeping in the final draft.

But today, alas, in between trading kittens around to different cat mommies and feeding a newborn kit milk with a spoon (she won't take a bottle), I discovered that my little word verification notebook is missing in action.

This is doubly tragic as I have started work on a writers' naming book. It will have a section on German names, one on Korean names, one on Welsh names, one on Esperanto names, and a list of word verification words as a source for alien and other odd names and words.

So--- I've had to start a new notebook. Luckily I have a spare one that's the same as the one I use for Korean names. I'm also going to start files on my computer and enter the WV words into that whenever I have a page or so. I already have similar files for Korean names.

But it's an ednesh lot of work, so if you have a cool WV word to share, mention it in your comment and it will be added to the list.