{"id":1104,"date":"2008-05-14T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2008-05-14T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T03:37:49","slug":"my-name-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/my-name-is\/","title":{"rendered":"My Name Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>With a t at the end. Not a d.<\/p>\n<p>Get it wrong once, possible mistake.<\/p>\n<p>When I correct you, and you do it *again* and *again*, I want to slap you in the face with a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially bad when you&#8217;re replying to my email, as my name is spelt correctly at least <strong>THREE TIMES<\/strong> right in front of you (Twice in &#8220;To: Stewart Smith &lt;stewart@&#8230;&gt;&#8221; and again in &#8220;On X, Stewart Smith wrote:&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(and if you&#8217;re wondering why I&#8217;ve tagged this post with &#8220;sun&#8221; and &#8220;mysql&#8221; it&#8217;s because some of you people are the worst offenders)<\/p>\n<p>kthxbye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart. With a t at the end. Not a d. Get it wrong once, possible mistake. When I correct you, and you do it *again* and *again*, I want to slap you in the face with a keyboard. It&#8217;s especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/my-name-is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","category-sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-hO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3690,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-8-1-five-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":1104,"position":0},"title":"Ghosts of MySQL past, part 8.1: Five Years","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2014-03-12","format":false,"excerpt":"With many apologies to David Bowie, come 2009 it was my 5 year anniversary with Sun (well, MySQL AB and then Sun). 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