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I almost forgot that I should write a blog post today. Only 500 words is what I require from myself, but that just seems to be lot at the moment. I have used the whole day to listen to some music from Spotify. I found a CD from Spotify that isn’t too easily found anywhere else and I’m just listening at this. It isn’t a new CD, but something that I just happen to love. This artist is currently number three on my last.fm page, so that should give you some information that I really like her songs.
Another thing that I have done is reading some text about programming with PHP. I have already learned a few things that are quite fun things to know. I know that PHP stands for “Pre-Hypertext Processor” or processing, but I’m just happy to hear that it is a acronym of some words. I previously thought that there isn’t such thing. Another interesting thing was learning about the difference between single quotes and double quotes in PHP. I have been wondering about this while programming it myself. The difference is that with single quotes variables like $variable are just printed and with double quotes their contents are printed. This is a simple thing and I feel that I should have noticed it before, but I didn’t so I don’t see what I could do about it.
I did use skype to have a nice chat with my little sister today. It’s a great thing that it can be used just to keep contact with some important people. It, have used it with many other people too, but I have to say that my family is the most important people here. I did use it lot to keep contact with my wife, while we lived in different countries. So I guess that you could say that I’ve gotten used to communicating with social media like that.
While I was talking with my little sister I noticed that I’m not that good at telling others what I’m talking about. I guess that I do it much as I do writing these blog posts. Because most of what I’m saying is just down to the listener to figure out. I just feel that the ideas that I have are flowing freely in front of me and I just pick the few words that I really like and don’t pay that much attention to the rest of it.
Now I got to say again that the music I’m listening is great. The artist is “Maija Vilkkumaa” and the CD is one of her older ones called “Pitkä Ihana Leikki”. I just love how she makes her music in finnish. Because let’s be honest, she isn’t going to have that many foreign fans. That is a huge problem with some finnish artists. They think that they are going to make it to the top of charts everywhere and they make their music in english for that reason. The truth is that not too many finnish band have made it to international music scene. Nightwish is one of the best known finnish bands, but many others are just not that well known. Some bands are big in Japan and South America. These include bands like Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica and Children of Bodom. All of these bands are something I have listened to in the past.

You might think that I was about to forget the table about the words of the day. Don’t panic, because it is right here.

These words are something that I might even remember. I will try to provide another five words during next week.