Okay, since there was much grousing about the insoluble captchas, they’ve been removed. It appears that they’ve been cracked anyway. 2,801 spammy comments got through in December, and another 1,145 in January alone thus far. I’m guessing they just run the audio through a speech-to-text engine. The audio gets randomly distorted so you can’t do binary matching on it, but Google could still do speech-to-text on it pretty well, I bet. That’d be how I’d do it. Make Google do the crunching for you. Fortunately, WordPress is really good figuring out what’s spam and what’s not, so I’m not going…
So I got something from Land’s End and something from LUCCA today in the mail. Berck suggested I put them with the other presents to wait till Christmas to open. Anyone know if I shouldn’t?
While applying for unemployment benefits with the state of New York, there was the following note: “If your financial institution has recently merged with another financial institution, the new financial institution should be contacted to obtain the new bank routing and account numbers.”
I dare anyone to understand this: 8-70-117. Employment – base of operations. “Employment” means that the entire service of an individual is performed within this state or both within and without this state if the service is localized in this state; or that the service is not localized in any state but some of the service is performed in this state and that the base of operations or, if there is no base of operations, the place from which the service is directed or controlled is in this state; or that the base of operations or place from which the…
I would like to inform you that there was an error that occurred while sending out your certified letter regarding your furlough. There was a mistake with the postage amount. The postage meter printed $3.24 instead of the standard rate of $5.54. This may result in an additional fee at your local post office when picking up your letter. Payroll has confirmed that reimbursement for the additional fee will be paid out on December 16th. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at 602-685-4140. I apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused. Yes, they sent…