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February 17, 2007
And mother makes three
What would you think is the most irksome, annoying thing about being a single mother of two? Struggling with the finances? Meting out the discipline?
No
I'll tell you what it is. It's recipes that serve four... or two.... or six... or whatever. Never three though is it? It does my head in.
OK, rant over.
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February 14, 2007
All Rise
I've been called up for Jury Service... oh pooh!
Everyone who's ever been tells me it's extreeeemly tedious. I'd best buy some new books. Lot's of sitting around waiting - many people don't even get on a case.
Of course knowing my luck I'll get the local godfather's trial for murder. Oh well, I always wondered what the witness protection programme was all about.
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February 02, 2007
Sodding Spam
I don't know whether it makes me sad or angry - well both really - but it's everywhere in my life right now and it's driving me insane.
Take this blog for instance. My host is a bit canny with the old coding and stuff (way above my head) and he's written some filters which deal with 100% of the spam, it all gets dumped into the junk mail folder so that's really cool. But I was just emptying the folder and I realised that all of January's 345 spam comments contained therein were directed at one particular blog post - a post about a certain number game of far eastern origin (you know the one I mean). It seems the very mention of said game is enough to attract every jerkoff spammer in the business. I've edited the post now, taken out all mention of "the S word", so we'll just wait and see what happens.
Added to that of course is the email spam I receive by the bucket load and the junk comments on my site. Happily I've now managed to eradicate the junk comments quite simply but now the sods are spamming me through the feedback module. The worst thing is they've managed to exploit some bug in Nuke and are sending out spam in my name. I just wish I knew how to stop that - it's not making me popular with the server guys (or my host).
I guess some people must respond to this crap otherwise they wouldn't bother sending it but I'm not one of them. I don't want a bigger penis (at least not one of my own); I definitely don't want to visit any "mother and daughter" websites; and my need for bored, lonely housewives is miniscule to say the least. Blogspot doesn't help either. Most of the links seem to go to annoyingpervertedspammers.blogspot.com and I wish those buggers would clean up their act.
Ah well.... since I've been writing this the spam fairy has no doubt visited me again.... better go and clean out that junk mail again.
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February 01, 2007
A Qualified Success
I don't think I did a jot of work today, nothing. We'd been promised our results for our final assignments and we were all totally stressed out waiting for them. I just kept staring at my inbox waiting for that fateful message to appear.
And it did.... on the stroke of 5 o'clock.... talk about keeping you in suspense!
But I did it, I passed. I even got what, for me, was a pretty good mark in my Project Management assignment which was doubly satisfying. You have no idea how pleased I am, mostly that I don't have to resit anything but also because it's been a long haul and hard work at times and now I finally feel like I've been rewarded for my efforts.
Happy day :-)
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