All tracks on the new Oasis album, ‘Dig out your Soul’, have been made available for listening purposes on Myspace. The album is due for public release on Monday. This comes after lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher stated that he ‘didn’t spend a year in the most expensive studio in England, with the most expensive producer in America and …
Choccy!
For anyone else who loves chocolate! >>Chocolate Recipes<<
First ones return from their break
They are beginning to trickle back! Teachers at Ashburton Junior School in Croydon, south London, have upset parents by banning the kids from playing during the fifteen minutes before classes start….on the grounds of ‘health and safety’. The ruling is apparently to prevent either children or parents getting hurt!
Death of a Hollywood legend
One of the legends of Hollywood, Paul Newman has died at his home at the age of 83 years. He had been suffering from cancer. Paul Newman appeared in around sixty films, including such classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and The Colour of Money. He was nominated for Oscars …
Let’s be friends
Some fairly regular and some definitely irregular animal pairs. >>Let’s be Friends<<
MySpace launches music service
MySpace has unveiled its new online music service that allows US members to listen for free but pay for downloads. The service is advertising funded and allows members to build playlists on their computers, but to be playable on, or transferable to, any other apparatus will mean downloading it and paying for it. The music store is run by its …
Looking to the future
The Olympic Delivery Authority (that sounds well paid) has said it wants to produce an ideal Olympic venue for people of all cultures, faiths, ages and abilities for the 2012 Games and beyond. So, a percentage of the toilets being built at London’s Olympic Park will be such that Muslims will not have to face Mecca while sitting on the …
Sticky past
Howick, a suburb of Manakau city on New Zealand’s north island, has just issued its latest set of stamps. Very nice too.
All quiet on the loony front…
A rather quiet time on the loony front, which is a bit spooky and disconcerting. Either they have been taking their annual vacation or have decided to take a recess to let Mr Bean occupy centre stage for a while. Highly unlikely a cure has been found for the lunacy, that would be too much to hope for. More likely …
Faulty Apple iPhone 3G adapters
Apple has issued a warning that IPhone 3G owners could be at risk of electric shock from faulty power adapters. The metal prongs on many of the ultra-compact USB adapters sold with the 3G iPhone model could, under certain circumstances, break off, get stuck in the power socket and put the owners at risk.