Word verification

Had a bit on an embarrassing start to the day, in that I got the date of the ANZIIL Symposium wrong(here in Brisbane) and thought it started today rather than tomorrow - whoops! Still, better than turning up a day late. In having a recuperative coffee in Merlo's on Queen Street (recommended) noticed that appraently (as reported in the Australian) apparently the days of squiggly letters (word verification, copying oddly shaped letters to do things like post a blog entry, and a pain it is too) are numbered, as machines are learning how to recognise even squiggly letters. This sort of thing is called captcha or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

Photo by Sheila Webber: Eucalyptus, near the beach, Port Julia, South Australia.