23/12/2007 - Sunday

It has been just over a month since my last post. I've been saving up a fair bit to say, so this will probably be a longer post than my usual ones. Then again, I might find that I have less to talk about than I thought!

Merry Christmas

Well, I should start off by wishing everyone a merry Christmas, even if you don't celebrate it. I think it's pretty stupid that our government is allowing places to drop the idea of it being Christmas and just call it a holiday. This country is a christian country and thus we celebrate Christmas. If you're a foreign person living in this country then you don't have to celebrate it, but don't get your knickers in a twist just because they country you're living in wants to celebrate it.

Spam

My email address surprisingly hasn't found its way into many spam databases, so I was usually getting around 20 spam emails a day. However, twice in the last week I've been hit by a lot more spam than usual. At the beginning of the week I managed to get 50 new spam emails, but they're the same four spam emails repeated. Today, however, I hit a new record. So far today I have 105 spam emails, again with the same four emails plus some more. The emails are for winning an iPod, winning an iPhone, a £150 voucher for Tesco, Gala bingo, getting cash in 24 hours, and a GHD christmas box (whatever that may be). Oops, I've now got 106 spam emails! I don't mind getting spam, as Gmail does a wonderful job of sticking it in the spam folder. I've had a few spam emails slip through to my inbox, but they're just a case of clicking the "report spam" button and never seeing them again. I've also noticed that Gmail has got a bit smarter when dealing with spam received through a public mailing list which uses a single email address which Gmail liked to mark as spam if I reported one bit of mail as spam. Now it seems to let the real emails through but still bins the proper spam emails.
UPDATE: At midnight I had a grand total of 128 spam emails! Slightly higher than the normal 20 odd. I wonder if it'll continue?

Monarchy

I've been watching the recent five part series into the private lives of the monarchy. I know that I'm not really a huge fan of the monarchy, mainly because I couldn't really be bothered about them rather than thinking they shouldn't exist or anything, but it was a great series to watch. You got to see a different side to what they get up to instead of just hearing about the various things in the papers. Some of the things that have been printed in the papers have been different from how I saw the events happening in the program. I'm quite happy that I took the time in the evening to watch it instead of just turning my tv off like usual.

Other Stuff

I'm sure there was a lot more that I wanted to talk about, but I really can't think of what they were now! So I think I'll leave it at that for now. If I remember anything else then I'll make sure to edit the post!