Life of a Lab Rat

Thanks for the link, as well as the one referenced here: http://www.scienceboard.net/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=3&Forum_Title=Small+Talk&Topic_Title=Movies%2D+what+have+you+seen%2C+what+did+you+like%3F&CAT_ID=13&FORUM_ID=38&TOPIC_ID=3434

if I had the time, I'd configure it, but nowadays I realize I'll just pay the 10-20 euros. That's when you know you're getting older. Sigh.

By the way, I've tried to twiddle my own spam filter settings; you could try again if you feel like it but considering the following: "In typical usage, SK2 automatically enters blacklist and or whitelist values or scores dependent upon simple user classification of past comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks as spam or ham, then applies these rules on future submissions. SK2 also maintains a list of domains and IPs which have produced or been mentioned in spams it has captured. These are ’scored’, so that if they crop up again in a spam wave the trackback or comment will automatically attract that score - meaning it will have to be a very virtuous comment, trackback, or pingback to reach the state where it is approved (and so appears on your blog)." Maybe it doesn't like posts coming in from Australia?

Bah. Your SK2 allows spam through, but not ham. I managed to get one comment to appear, but then it disappeared.

Yippee! You just have to register to get around the spam filter: the teeeeeny text to the bottom right next to the Login screen will allow you to validate you exist. If you want to make the effort. Bah, indeed. I'm really annoyed about the whole thing. Your captcha seems to work pretty well.