’Tis the season to be jolly-well rid of spam…
Thu 7 Dec 2006
…Tra-lala-lalah La-la La La.
I’ve noticed a change in the blog comment spam caught by my Akismet spam filter. Usually the majority of my spam comments offer either cheap weight-loss pills to make me smaller all over or other pills to make just one particular part of me bigger. However, this month’s spam has a decidedly Christmassy flavour.
There are headlines offering Christmas lights, Christmas songs and even holidays on Christmas Island. But they are still spam. I’ve got my decidedly Christmassy smile on as I watch them all languish on the slippery slope into the e-shredder. Thank-you Akismet.
And speaking of Christmas, I’ve dragged out the Christmas tree (image above), pasted it on the FITC website and dusted off the Christmas message for clients. So, Merry Christmas to all my blog readers as well.
Meanwhile, at home, Mrs Fitz has deployed even more Christmas lights than last year. My pleas about greenhouse gasses, electricity bills and the neighbours thinking we are mad have once again fallen on deaf ears. It’s not such a bad hobby, I suppose. At least we are not as mad as this guy.
Next will be the Christmas Epistle to family and friends. (Thinks: I wonder if I can just filter out all my Outlook appointments for the past year with a category of ‘personal’ and/or ‘recreation’, dump them into a Word document and go from there ?)
December 8th, 2006 at 15:21
That guy is a little over the top.
Reminds me: I’d better post the pictures of Len Doof’s house some time (seriously, that is his name!) He ends up having the street he lives in closed off every year (for about 6 weeks), ice-cream vans turn up, and people drive across Adelaide to see his light show. He’s also barking mad
December 8th, 2006 at 15:48
As it turns out, the guy in the video is a professional sound and lighting engineer.
He doesn’t play the music out loud, otherwise his neighbours might throw stones. Instead, he transmits the music on an FM radio band. The illuminated sign on the right advises passing motorists to tune their car radios to a particular frequency.
He’s not doing a display this year because, last year, there was a serious traffic accident and the suburban streets were so choked that the ambulance couldn’t get through.