This seems like a proper time to comment on your blog for the first time, and mention that this is a great blog. Keep it up.

Everyone knows you don't have a desk.

I'm not sure how much control you have over this new system, but it has a truly irritating UI "feature". I left a long response for Ryan Holiday the other day and didn't notice the new CAPTCHA request. The issue being that my insightful comment was lost forever (allowing me to proclaim its True Genius). Upon hitting the back button in the browser, my comment was gone when I returned to the previous screen. Potentially, you could fix this by either giving the comment box a memory of what was typed upon Back, the "Please fill in the CAPTCHA Box" error message could include the comment with instructions to copy, back, and paste, or the CAPTCHA error could show up in a pop up window or the current page so as not to redirect from the page with your comment.

I'm not sure if you have the control to be able to do it, but it's a pretty irritating design for real users who miss the box. And it's pretty easy to miss given that it doesn't look like the typical "re-type this squiggly text" instance.

Ryan - My desk in that I happened to be sitting at it. Possession is 9/10s.

Tim - I'll look into that because the comment boxes have 'memory' for me. When testing this system, I could submit a comment without the response, hit back and it was still there. I'll see if I can add the comment box to the warning page, although I'm not a coder, so we'll see how that goes.

I don't have a typekey accont. That may be causing the different behavior?

I justed tested again, and my comment was still there. That's not what happened when I tested earlier or when I posted on Ryan's site. Weird.

I don't have a typekey account either but as long as the comments are staying in the box, I'm not going to worry too much about it.