Hello, in case you haven't guessed, it's mike! This is interesting. I've played arround with blogging before but never took it all that serious but now check it out the new improved me!
About me briefly: I live in Rosamond, CA pretty close to Edwards airforce base, sonic booms more often than one can imagine and maybe not so often anymore, Space shuttle landings.
I'm 52 years old, living with my wife Terra and our cat trixie. Both humans are Christians and our cute cat, well she's innocent. Not sure how she'd handle baptism with her aversion to water but I bet we could persuade her for a few seconds--just long enough to get bit and scratched. All for the love of Omaha Steak treats!
Anyway today was interesting, this "security" thing that prevents automated entries is not good. I finished my profile as every good blooger does put in my password and username when suddenly on my screen terror of terrors the screen read Please type in the letters or words from the image you see. Oops! See? Well not exactly I'm blind so I use a voice screen reader called window-eyes produced by http://www.gwmicro.com
so back to the image what could I do, felt like the kid in the Mr Wizzard cartoon.
I did the only thing I could of course, "Honey! I said You know gotta make nice when you want a wife to do something right? Anyway Terra comes in and well she says just as cool as a cucumber "Sweetie I know you need the words from that image but aren't you forgeting something? You don't have a monitor--remember you gave it to your mom."
You know she was right but she still saved the day this time with her computer in the other room.
But these images don't let screen readers not window-eyes or jaws for windows either one read them.
Some of the more advanced sites like gmail let you click on and listen to the number letter sequence. Others though try to blur the sound as if it were a printed page.On the page you can if you can see squint and see the image but some of the sites put lots of sounds in the background so even sharp ears the whale couldn't decipher what was being said. They do this for sweepstakes, contests, paying bills and signing up for email and it's crazy. I wish there was some other way so people with screen readers could without screeching for "honey" their neighbor or perhaps even the mailman read this stuff! Yes it might be a neat way to meet folks but that helper you just invited in to read your screen because you just had to get things done might be your next burglar or a cereal killer--we only have 11 boxes of cereal to kill so what's up with that.
Maybe someday I'll get a startrek computer--end of problem.
Now I've bented feel better?
By the way on a more serious note I have a website:
www.mikesmaze.net
it's a christian site, has lots of articles and some audio to help you navigate the twists and turns we call life. If you want to read some interesting incites on prophecy come and check out an amazing writer who explains bible prophecy. His name is David Vaughn Eliot, and he's written a rebuttal to commonly excepted futurist interpretation of scripture called "Nobody left behind" He has some featured articles and some audio classes, the current one is about Jesus prophesied first coming in the book of psalms.
The site will also contain a page of resources with links for all kinds of stuff,resources of interest to everybody and special listings of resources for folks who are blind and need adaptive help.
a ham radio page with articles of interest to amateur radio enthusiasts like myselfwill also be available. My Call sign is KD6WNI.
Their will also be a page listing sweepstakes contests and winning opportunities I think are cool.

Here are two examples:
1. If you need a gmail address we have some invitations
www.mikesmaze.net
also I use a very cool new search engine for prize lovers called
Search chipsI'll post a link shortly so you can become Mike's search chip friend!
Well it's time for Mike the mouth that never stops to close for now.
Have a fantastic weekend.
Mike