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Really July 10th, 2008

Making the tea after getting home from work, smoking a smoke and pondering my belly-button fluff (cleaned out this morning!) I made two self observations.

One:

When I speak to my Mum I always call her Mum. Always have and always will.

When I speak to my Dad it’s always “buddy”, “mate”, “Dude”, “Get up you lazy bugger!”[1. Sunday mornings, generally 10.30 - 11.00 when I pop in to their house to say "Hi".] or something similar to that.

Of course, when referring to them they are always Mum and Dad.

With this realisation happening in the last five minutes I haven’t asked Dad if he’s ever noticed or if it worries him or Mum, but it’s gonna bug me now!

Two:

I don’t say thank you enough. Yes, if we’ve had dinner with them or they’ve done something for us, I/we thank them. But I can’t remember the last time I said thank you for everything else. For just being there. So:

Mum, Dad,

Thankyou.

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Blah July 10th, 2008

Yes, it is spelled correctly! Remember them? Ex Bananarama Member Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit were the lead and backing vocalist respectively.

Their first single to chart in the UK was called You’re History. And that’s exactly what I say to Defensio on this blog today.

After 5 months using it, the first couple of months were great, after teaching it the commenting regime on this blog it caught all my spam comments with no problem.

Unfortunately, beginning of May is where it started to go wrong. It marked a number of genuine comments as spam and couldn’t process some other comments. Same thing happened in June. Last night I had to “unspam” 6 more comments (including one from Donncha and two from my Dad) and then today I had to self-process another 20 messages because Defensio seemed incapable. I then did the same thing on Mini! Mini! Mini!.

So, Defensio, You’re History.

Continuing the musical theme, Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back In Town. Where “The Boys” = Akismet. Can someone remind me why I left please?

On another note, this theme is starting to piss me off. I don’t know why, it’s been great. But I feel a change coming on. Possibly single column with the “sidebar” at the bottom. Expect Change.

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