I meet up with some friends and relatives over the weekend for lunch, and after that, one of them took out almost 10 pills.  He says that he has to eat these pills to cure various maladies — vitamins, minerals, supplements, as well as tablets to aid digestion, prevent stomach upsets, lower blood pressure, ease hypertension, combat diabetes, and fight joint pains.

Gosh! and this friend, despite eating all those medicine ( assuming he is indeed sick all over) persist in not exercising, drinking, going out late nights, and eating fatty foods whenever he can.  Does he expect he can get better by drowning himself in bad habits and indulging in magic pills?

I guess we have the same attitude as him — in business and in life. We go around looking for magic pills and silver bullets, so in spite of bad habits, laziness, and whatever, we can still succeed and find happiness without changing ourselves.  WE go around looking at the world, and complain that it is preventing our happiness after believing all the magic it can weave on us ( of course, led by companies who says magic pills and formulas for success do work) and when you look deep down, it is not the world, but ourselves who are doing it all wrong.

Maybe there is worth in the chinese medicine practice which expounds that if you are sick, it is because your energy flow, and your whole body is not in harmony, and if you want to get well, you have to make the whole system healthy.  In contrast to western medicine, which focuses on a specific issue, and tries to fix only that issue.

Maybe we can check out - if we have not succeeded the last 5 years, and we found out that we persist in doing the same things we have done the last 5 years, then are we expecting different results if we continue the same things just because we subscribe to shortcut theories and silver bullets?

Over the weekend, I finally sat down and said that I would solve an issue — for so many weeks, I have been getting over a hundred comments a day - all what we could call spambot posts, where advertisements jumbled links.  It is easy for these people to post comments as they have an automated software to do so.

There are ways to combat this, and I believe the best way is to force users to identify a random word displayed as an image so that automated software cannot read it, and therefore cannot post.

I used Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plug-in and so far, it has been quite effective — I don’t have to spend time everyday deleting useless comments, and I believe more people like to comment as they can see it immediately posted as opposed to writing something and not seeing it for 2 or 3 days because it was still being moderated.  If you are using Wordpress, you can use this!