A few years ago at a trade fair I gave my email address to a company that sells CDs of music to exercise professionals for use in their classes. They've been sending me regular "buy our new CDs" emails ever since. I've never actually bought anything from them, so last week decided to click the "unsubscribe" link in the email ( Read more... )

Trying to log into iTunes, it tells me I've got my password wrong, would I like to go through security and reset it. OK, go on then. We get to the choose a new password bit, and I put in the one I'd thought I'd already used but evidently not. Ooh, you can't do that, it says, you need a capital letter in it. OK then, I'll put the same password but ( Read more... )

I rather like listening to audiobooks, especially when going to sleep (who says you have to stop getting someone to read you a bedtime story when you're an adult?). I'm currently halfway through Pyramids by Terry Pratchett, which I've read on paper several times, and which here is being read by Nigel Planer ( Read more... )

Just posted the following to Facebook. I've decided that every time I'm made aware of these supposed "cancer awareness" memes I'm going to actually post something about cancer, as I personally think that writing something about cancer is a better way to raise awareness than writing something cryptic that isn't about cancer. If I'm wrong about this ( Read more... )