Day: 8 May 2008

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Code of Conduct

We had a chat with the Scouts on Tuesday about their behaviour and how we expect them to be at Scouts. We talked and made sure it wasn’t a telling off session and they seemed to start to understand.

The thing that really brought things home to them was that they realised that in 2 – 4 years time when they wanted jobs, they can’t just mess around and not expect to get fired! The other thing was I remembered that last year they wrote out their own Code of Conduct! So we reminded them of this and they have now promised to behave better!

Now we can start looking forward properly to our Centenary Celebration Family camp at the end of May.

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Spam (not the meat kind!)

When I started writing this blog, I turned on the ability to make comments on what I’ve written. Now, so far, all the real comments made by various people have been interesting and helpful, but of course there is the spam comments. These are the ones trying to get me to buy various medicinal products and other dubious stuff!

As soon as I set up the blog, I installed a spam filter and recently updated to Akismet, which is part of WordPress. The amount of junk I’ve been getting has steadily increased so that I was getting around 20 – 40 spam comments per day. I didn’t realise I was that popular! So, getting bored of having to delete all the junk (well I didn’t have to), I decided to up the anti spam protection. I’ve installed a nice plug in which now requires the writer of a comment to prove they are real and not a spambot.

Guess what? Since it was installed not another bit of spam!

 Tongue out to spammers!