I finally got around to putting more than a lame two lines on this blog’s About Me page, so if you’re curious about who writing you’re reading, go and have a look.

Earlier today, I was wrestling around with my son and he suddenly stops playing to say something to me… something totally out of the blue. He had, I guess, decided that I’m a little to liberal with my use of profanity around the house and started with, “Baba, don’t say bad words anymore.”

He then paused for a brief second, perhaps to lend dramatic effect since his tone was about to be completely normal — and I mean a totally non-plussed kind of normal. Not the kind of tone that you’d expect from a child who knows he’s about to say something he’s not allowed to, but also knows that he’s managed to find a loophole in the rules of language that govern children and wants you to know that you just got gamed. This is normal normal, like he’s about to tell me about his bike or something.

Anyway, let’s back up a bit for the sake of continuity. We wrestled. He stopped. He spoke. Out his mouth came, “Baba, don’t say bad words. (’One Mississippi’ pause) Don’t say ‘fuck’ anymore. ‘Fuck’ isn’t a nice word. Okay?”

The amusing thing (Yes, all I found it was amusing) about this was that I hadn’t said anything that involved the word all day. I have no idea what prompted him to say that to me at that moment.

I responded in the way that I think one should respond in these situations. I looked back at him calmly, without any bemusement or anger, and told him that I wouldn’t.

He then snuck in a quick punch-slap to my face and we resumed the wrestling.

I’m sorry for posting gossip-rag-fodder here, but Paris Hilton bothers me.

She’s been busted for violating her probation for a drink-driving conviction and is meant to start serving her time on June 05.

Read the rest at the BBC website, but before you go, let me quote this little fun fact.

Despite prosecutors saying the heiress deserved a jail sentence prior to Friday’s hearing, Ms Hilton arrived at the court at least 10 minutes late.

If you’ve been driving around Karachi’s Clifton or DHA Phase 5 today, you will have noticed that McDonald’s has done a pretty good job hanging their banners on every pole they could reach. Now, you and I know that their drive through service is available 24 hours a day. That’s good news for people who are hungry in the wee hours of the morning.

What’s even better news, and what they don’t tell you on the banner (they really should have, since it’s an as-good, and maybe, better offering), is that the home delivery service is also available round the clock to people in the Defence and Clifton area.

The banner also fails to mention that it’s only the McDonald’s at Seaview which is open 24 hours a day (and the airport, but that happened long ago).

Yes, I called 111-BIG-MAC and asked them. I was just curious. You now know and have me to thank for it.

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I’m fortunate to have a full-time cook at home. He’s great and can prepare a meal with the best of them. He can cook more than just Pakistani food too — Chinese, Sri Lankan, Continental, etc., so we’re really happy that he chose to work with us.

My only real gripe with him is that he hasn’t been able to make a decent spaghetti sauce from scratch. I love spaghetti. My kids love spaghetti. It’s important to get spaghetti right in our home. Anyway, I eventually got a little tired with the experimentation and bought some Ragu spaghetti sauce a few days ago.

He made spaghetti today. He used the sauce and it turned out well. I just had seconds.

Now, here’s my problem: He’s a damn good cook. Do I let him know that it turned out well? After all, He didn’t really do anything except brown the mince and boil the pasta. He knows this. He knows that I resorted to store-bought sauce after he failed to make it well enough for us to like. Do I run the risk of offending him by congratulating him on a job well done?

Why am I blogging about this? Because this conundrum made me ask myself how I’d feel if I was in a similar situation. What if a client wasn’t happy with a logo/website/ad I was designing? What if I tried my hardest and it just wasn’t working out? What if the client went off to TemplateMonster or StockLayouts (really now, don’t expect me to link to them!) and bought some prefab design for me to build on?

I’d be pissed. Really pissed. I’d have an attitude and then some. I’d refuse to complete the job if it meant using some generic art.

So, I’m left wondering if using Ragu is the same as using a template.

Side note: I’m bothered by how similar the Ragu logo is to Burger King’s.