Way too early for me to be reading this stuff on a dark and rainy Saturday. It took me all of 5 seconds to actually get this one!

and it took me all of 5 seconds to find the first time you ran this (albeit with a slightly more realistic amount of liquid involved...)
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/004470.html
ready for another vacation?

And that malicious commenting thing doesn't really work very well if it considers corrections before hitting post as "post"ings. I haven't even posted, but since I miss hit the @ key in the email address (new keyboard) it makes me wait to retry submitting the comment. Brilliant.

Old Jacques - Actually it is brilliant and is working as designed to eliminate comment spam. Too bad it doesn't eliminate asshole commenters. If it is too hard for you to grasp the concept of always having to preview before posting a comment, maybe you shouldn't try to comment. As for me posting that before....Do you realize how many posts I have put up since I started this blog? I'm supposed to remember every single one? And this from someone who thinks my MT spambot blocker plugin makes it too difficult to comment on my site.

a) I hate non-ergo keyboards

b) does this count as the Monday pun as well?

Non-Ergo?

WTF?

Non 'therefore'?

Y'all make me feel dumber everyday.

YES!!! I understood that Gus meant 'Non-ErgoNOMIC!!!'

But that ain't what he SAID!

Mr. Denny,
I understand that you have done thousands of posts, and have enjoyed many. Okay.
Weekly series I would think you would take the time to make sure you aren't repeating something you put up under the same heading just a few months ago (it's not the first time you've mistakenly repeated the same joke or pun).

Sorry, thought you were actually enjoying this blog thingy and not just doing it to have something to do.

And as for your antispam system, I did hit preview the first time.
If the problem is that one needs to rehit preview (I hadn't changed the message, only corrected the @ in the email address) then maybe the warning message shouldn't tell me erroneously that I need to wait, but tell me that I must preview it again before being allowed to finally post it.

Whatever, next time I won't bother...

Old Jacques - You made a change. You needed to preview. Works as designed. Not a bug, but a feature.

okay, I agree that I changed the email field (not the message) that it signalled and required me to change since hitting ò instead of @ created an invalid email address (and it was right to do it, although I personally would have expected that check BEFORE going into the preview).

Fact stands that it still kept telling me that I was posting too soon after my last attempt, and not that I was required to preview before I posted, so that I would consider a bug.

Normally the PREVIEW refers only to the message field which changes everytime (or should, except for spam, while the other fields tend to be always the same), and is also the longest and most subject to typos.
I would also think that in a well designed system, if one is required to preview before posting (original post or preview page with changes effected), then the POST button should be disactivated or hidden.

I'd consider it sort of like the BSOD on Windows systems which appears in the case of a fatal crash. It *is* a feature (there is surely a lot of *useful* debugging information provided in those funny numbers) and better than just resetting but most normal users don't consider it as a particularly useful feature.

As a Plugin, I realize you didn't design it, but I wouldn't think you'd defend what is probably easily improvable by the programmer as a positive feature.

Oh well, I don't come to your site to read about or discuss systems design, so have a good week.