Anyone reading this blog for a while will know I have been looking forward to the arrival of the Nokia N91 4GB Smartphone MP3 player for around a year now. It’s finally appeared in the Orange shop, although with the following description and no mention of the 4GB microdrive.

“The Nokia N91 is your family photo lab in the palm of your hand.”

Apparently this really is the N91, but Orange’s marketing people just have not jumped on the killer features yet.

I use New Street quite a lot and generally do not have too many problems. Although in Feb I was once subjected to no less than 3 platform changes. Amazing I managed to get the train at all that day. Some kind of re-modeling of this part of the rail network is long over-due, although it’s not going to happen over night. The disruption in the mean time will likely be horrendous.

Just goes to show how little thought went into the origenal legislation.

This should be fascinating.

Some thought provoking stuff here. Had I got my thoughts organised I would have liked to take part. As it was I was coming back from Preston on Monday and feeling pretty drained. But many of these people have in a lot of cases reflected my own thoughts anyway.

On Friday a woman stood next to me in a bar, and after a few moments of silence she said.

“you are standing next to a disabled woman.”

I was not sure why she was telling me this or what kind of thing she expected me to say. After a pause I said litely.

“right, well, you are standing next to a disabled man.”

After a few further moments of silence, she slowly walked away.

Nutracheck.co.uk has all sorts of information about how many Calories are in a wide range of products. As a friend of mine has recently gone on a health kick, and someone said to me tonight that there are a lot of Calories in my prefered tipple, Guinness, I thought I would look up some numbers.

A pint of draft Guinness contains 210 Calories. So how does this compare with other popular drinks. There are 256 in Stella Artois, 355 in most Premium Lagers, and 392 Calories in Carlsberg Special Brew! Just as well I rarely drink lager.

I like a pint of Draught Mild which has 136 Calories but like a good curry mild is not easy to find in Worcester. Mild is just ahead of red wine on 119 and dry white wine on 116. I always thought red wine had less Calories than white wine, but if like me you also enjoy a dry white then you would be undercutting the red by 3 Calories, per 175ml glass.

These days a lot of the girls drink things like WKD Blue which stands at 228 Calories per bottle, 18 Calories more than Guinness.

A friend of mine recently declared he was giving up beer in favour of scotch in order to loose weight. while it is true that a single Whisky & Soda only has 56 Calories about a quarter of those found in Guinness and around a third of those found in a pint of bitter. However, one can take 30 to 45 minutes over a good pint of Guinness or bitter, a single Whisky & Soda would probably be gone in a quarter of the time and cost half as much. So over a 45 minute period, most people drinking Whisky & Soda would have spent twice as much money and consumed an equivalent number of Calories anyway.

False economics me thinks. I’m sticking to the black stuff even though on Friday I was charged the princely sum of £2.90 per pint!

A well-researched piece from our friends at the Gruniad!

Now that is a podcast!!!

Not for the easily amused … or should that be not for the easily offended. You figure it out. But I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. Behind the mirth are more serious points than one could wave a white stick at. This has got cutting edge written all over it.

Damon Rose is a much better producer than he is a presenter. And a quick blog search reveals that Damon is gaining a deserved following.

This is pure genius from the Beeb, but not everyone will be amused. I truely hope this podcast flies!

“It must be a terrible thing to be blind but you never hear them complaining.”

This kind of quote does nothing to enhance the quality of life for those aflicted with this horrific darkness. Oh come on! It must be a terrible thing to be raped, wrongfully imprisoned, or be victim of any one of thousands of injustices. But being blind in a developed country in the early 21st century? Is that really such a terrible thing? Besides I bet 3 million quid takes the edge off it a bit!

Rather than printing quotes like this the Daily Record would be better throwing it’s weight behind efforts which actually make a difference such as the Right to Read campaign.