Round-Robin Email of the Week

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In addition, according to Popbitch:

It's a shame that the pilot whale didn't take a wrong turn and end up in London a few years ago, because whales used to be the responsibility of the Queen Mother, as Warden of the Cinq Ports. She was supposed to make sure "that beached whales were given a proper burial, and that at least one tooth from each beached whale was extracted and sent to the Natural History Museum." All whales beached in British waters are owned by the Crown. Historically, the Sovereign claimed only the tongue, the tastiest bit, and gave the carcass to the local community to eat.

Whistle while you work...

I recently updated my computer to the new version of the Mac operating system, 'Tiger'. One of the new features is that you can have all these mini programs running on your desktop, called 'Widgets'. Typically they offer weather forecasts, calculator, currency conversion etc etc, but the coolest of all has to be one I just downloaded called Sing that ITune!. It automatically scans the web for the lyrics to whatever is playing in ITunes. Amazing! As far as I can tell there are two ways of having fun with this: one is to sing along like a lunatic to all those cheesy records in your library, and the other is to set it challenges and see if it can return lyrics for some of the more bizzare records in your collection.


If anyone else is using Sing that ITune, I'd love to hear what the most interesting lyrics you've come across are. My best so far is the Britney Spears Chris Cox megamix: "(Spoken) Can you turn my up a little?"

Superdooper Soapstars

By all logic it should be rubbish, but for some reason I'm addicted to Soapstar Superstar. I'm not normally one for reality shows, and only watch X-Factor and Pop Idol for the bad auditions, but I'm addicted! Maybe it's because the standard is generally pretty good, or maybe it's because everyone seems to want to win it badly, or maybe it's just great to see Cilla back on the telly... Only thing I don't like is the presenters. Ben Shepherd and Fern Britton together look like a little boy and his mum!



Oh yeah, and I think I'm in love with Shobna Gulati.

Happy New Year

I've always enjoyed new year's eve most when it's spent close to home, and that was certainly the case this year. A few of us went over to my friend Dee's place, which is just around the corner from me. We had an absolutely fantastic evening spent dancing around like lunatics to cheesy videos on the music channels, drinking cocktails of goodness knows what, and playing a game that featured an inventive new use for Vaseline (and it's not nearly as filthy as you might think!). Dee, thank you so much for providing us with the space for such a top night, and I hope you're able to get rid of the unidentified sticky substances from the floor.