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  • Hate Captchas? We opted for a better choice.

    When I first set up this website, I was spending hours deleting spam user accounts and posts. Trying to go over my site logs was a nightmare because the majority of the logs were filled filled with bots trying to attack my site. So I gave in and installed captchas. I added extra questions to my webforms to try and filter out the spam. While these efforts helped, the bots just became smarter and found ways to get around them. One of the things that I hate the most is having to deal with Captchas, but I hate spam more.

  • Why Trust Matters More Than Ever

    Morning Consult recently released their 2021 survey of the most trusted brands around the world. They surveyed over 330,000 consumers across 15 markets to provide a global view on why trust matters more than ever for today's brands and businesses, the current state of consumer trust across brands, categories, and how current events are changing the dynamics around trust.

    In today's world, trust is something that a brand cannot live without. Ninety percent of global consumers say their usage of a brand would be damaged if they lost trust in it. And consumers are a lot more likely to seek out, pay more for, buy more of, recommend and even forgive a brand if they trust it. In fact, on average, a third of global consumers would switch to a competitor's product or service if a company they trusted did something to break their trust.

  • IRS Loses MORE Taxpayer Records

    A recent watchdog report claims that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is unable to locate thousands of records that were kept at a facility in Utah, in addition to thousands of microfilm cartridges that contain millions of sensitive individual and business tax account records that were supposed to be transferred from a closed agency facility in California.

    A report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) stated in that it found significant short comings in safeguarding and accounting for millions of tax records that contained sensitive taxpayer information as part of a review of the IRS’ required storage of old tax records in microfilm backup cartridges.