i.justrealized

Holy crap, I’ll close window if I see such a CAPTCHA:

CAPTCHA is an almost standard method of human-detection during comment posting, user registration and Google search engine. (Google thinks I am a bot. No, Google, your search engine is the bot, silly.)

However, it really shouldn’t be. Image CAPTCHAs are set up to deter bots, users with malicious intent and my friend in college. But it achieves this by imposing a penalty toward genuine website visitors.

CAPTCHAs are becoming hard to solve these days as image recognition improves. It’s unfortunate that most sites implement harder-to-read CAPTCHAs that it’s so distressing and laborious to just read the darn squashed up vowels.

I was trying to login to SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) student portal and was greeted with the following:

Electronic Course Evaluation (eCE) system

Dear SIM student,

As a student of the SIM, you are invited to give your feedback and evaluate the SIM in the areas of academic and Programme management. Your inputs are very important in helping us assess the overall success of the programme and improve our level of service to you.

…

Thank you.
Pamela Tan
Divisional Director
Student Care and Academic Services

The course evaluation system is compulsory. This pisses me off. I hate to fill in forms. If I don’t fill the bloody form I can’t access the student portal. And no, logging in and out didn’t work. I’m just stuck at this ‘invitation’ all over again. I have 2 options:

1. Call the admin to retract the invitation
2. Do the invitation

You know which one I’ll pick - I guess the latter… I hate to call offices too.

The document continues to elaborate:

The eCE will replace the traditional pen and paper medium and it has the following benefits:

• will not take up your class time
• allow you to give us candid feedback at your convenience
• you have more time to reflect on your comments

Somehow I rather they take my class time… This is not a benefit. It’s waste my time at home. If I will most certainly give candid feedback on the feedback system. Honestly, I totally lost faith in these feedback forms. I don’t see a point doing something I don’t believe in. (more…)

This is a bad omen. I have spam just a week after this blog gone live. How did the spammers become so quick? It amazes and annoys me at the same time. My friend was saying I always have this type of mixed feelings and wonders how I can complain about something and embrace the same thing together. I stop and thought for a moment…

Still thinking…