Season’s Greetings!

Talk of Many Things wishes its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

At the start of this year, I’d promised to make it easy for readers to leave behind comments on this blog. Thanks to some innovative technology from reCAPTCHA, I’ve been able to fulfill my promise.

Like other methods, reCAPTCHA uses a graphical image to ensure that “you’re human” – and not a computerized bot which usually only leaves behind spam. But unlike any others I’ve come across, reCAPTCHA serves another purpose: it helps scan old books that were published before the onset of the digital era. I’m also impressed with the smartness of its implementation logic.

While I’ve used reCAPTCHA for this WordPress-based blog, you can put reCAPTCHA on any website. reCAPTCHA also promises easy-to-use code for common web programming languages such as PHP. Interested? Visit reCAPTCHA for more details.

Okay, now that I’ve made it easy for you to leave comments on this blog, let me leave you with something to comment upon:

Through this year, I’ve been asked many times (okay, a few times, happy?) to give my take on the credit crunch and financial meltdown. There have been countless articles written on this subject, so I won’t start off on another one. Instead, I’ll simply refer to one of my Quotable Quotes. 

Q: If you are so smart, why are you not rich? – Wall Street Bond Trader to a Harvard Professor
A: If you are so rich, why are you not smart? – Reply from the Harvard Professor 

But I’m not sure who is smart and who is rich, so you may want to comment?

Thank you for your interest in Talk of Many Things and look forward to staying in touch in 2009.