Some minor changes to the site

A few weeks back Krista voiced some concerns over what appeared to be random anonymous people leaving comments on our blog - she was afraid that this person(s) would be able to search through our archives and find out personal information, etc. I just saw another comment from the other day appear on our site.

There is a prevalance of what is known as spam commenting - which is what we are being hit with every so often. This is not a person per se, but a computer program which is set to seek out sites with comment capabilities and leave vague messages that say something like "your site is great! please check out my site (www.randomwebsite.com), i think you'll find it interesting, etc..."

This spam is meant to help drive traffic to websites that when visited, can send spyware to your computer and monitor your activities. Blogger has a new function to help circumvent that, you may have seen it used on other sites - it's word verification. You type whatever verification word that appears when you go to leave a comment and this assures that it is a human being leaving a message, and not a spam program.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know in case you had noticed and were wondering about the random comments...

Hope all is well!

Becks