Sleep Interrupted

Christmas was a bit of a wipe out for me this year, due to me catching a cold on Christmas Eve that kicked in fully around 3pm on Christmas Day. It didn’t help that Louise was feeling under the weather too, plus we invited most of our respective families over on Boxing Day for lunch. We managed but it’s left us both completely drained.

Most frustrating is that I’ve been given a good selection of whiskies, none of which are worth trying currently due to my sense of smell having succumbed to the Evil Christmas Cold.

Grumbling aside, though, it’s been a good couple of days. The defining moment of Christmas for me this year was sitting in Ben’s bedroom at 7.30am, working through the contents of his Christmas stocking. As he pulled items out one at a time he exclaimed with complete conviction, “Just what I wanted!”

Robot toy. “Just what I wanted!”

Dinosaur Top Trumps. “Just what I wanted!”

Pencil. “Just what I wanted!”

Rubber. “Just what I wanted!”

Sweets. “Just what I wanted!”

Tangerine… He looked up at me for a few long seconds with a look that said he was trying to work out whether I was pulling his leg. He held out the tangerine, “No thanks!”

I’ve been working heavily on a project with Mark for the last couple of weeks, hence the distinct lack of posts here. However, a spam email I received triggered a thought.

I don’t get much spam and thanks to Thunderbird’s junk filtering I barely have to spend any time even thinking about it. Recently, though, I’ve been paying it more attention because I realised that I can do my part in making the web a safer place: In Firefox you can report scam sites, or “web forgeries” as they call them. This information is then passed on to all other Firefox users and they are warned if they ever visit that scam site. Cool, huh? So that’s what I’m doing now, to try and give a little bit back. Want to help?