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Brian Fallon from Gaslight Anthem came in to do a set in the Studio today for the Sun. What a super chap. He even let us record a special message for my daughter Amy

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Thanks Brian.

The news sites are reporting that Michael Jackson has died of a heart attack today. Although I liked much of his (and his family’s music), I am struggling to feel any sympathy for the guy as he was recently. He has had a troubling couple of decades in many ways. The surgery, the illness, and the allegations and speculation behind his dealings with children. Perhaps now he’s dead and won’t sue, the real truth about the alleged paedophile scandals will come out.

I expect there will be an emotional outpouring by all his die-hard fans. The press will hypocritically lord him for his body of work (despite vilifying him previously) and Capital Radio will run his tracks back to back.

I also predict a run of “he isn’t dead really” conspiracy theories in a week or so (he was broke and had concert commitments soon he was having difficulties fulfilling).

I don’t wish death on anyone, but I find it unpalatable that this guy (who let’s face it publicly paid off a kid to shut him up about alleged pervy nights at the Neverland ranch) will be painted as some sort of music saint and the bad bits barely mentioned.

He has left behind three kids – I can’t think how they might be affected by the whole circus around him. It is them I feel sorry for most really.

Rest in peace MJ and now sleep well, the parents of California.

Ok, Personally I don’t think there’s an overwhelming reason to get the new iPhone.

OK it’s faster, has better GPS, a compass, voice commands and more memory but apart from that, what has it got to offer us right?

But what about you dear reader, are you tempted by the toys, the machismo, the tethering?

Damn, the tethering – OK but apart from the tethering, it’s faster, has better GPS, a compass, voice commands and more memory what has it got to offer?

“It’s got a better camera……”

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Apparently the word Trojan is associated with a number of different things not just the inhabitants of the city of Troy, a computer malware infestation or a brand of condom in the USA.

But it is a strange quirk of fate that these last two should come together in some small way in the news that some new malware is masquerading as a missing software component when browsing the most popular of website genre’s, the internet porn site.

As this article in Information Week points out the Trojan (called OSX/Jahlav-C apparently) prompts the user to install an Active X component to view a movie, this should of course be a give-away as Active X is a Microsoft technology and is not normally associated with the Mac platform however in the heat of lust driven furvor you guys (yes you –  you know who you are) should beware not enter your admin password when prompted no matter how big they are or whatever she is doing with that legume.

Let’s be careful out there.

I don’t normally have much of a problem with single source supply. It allows a distributor/seller to specialise and concentrate on the product, however when that exclusivity turns into a monopoly because the product is popular, there is always the danger the supplier will use that monopoly to squeeze their customers’ last shekel from their hands, just because they can.
This is bad for the customer of course but also for the manufacturer because the product gets a bad name which results in reduced sales of ‘it’ and by association the manufacturer’s subsequent products.

Where monopolies are concerned they don’t come much bigger or longer standing than AT&T in the US and O2 in the UK.

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OK, it’s a day later and the WWDC announcement is now history and I am 50p poorer having bet Ian that a NoteBook would be forthcoming this time around.
There’s quite a bit of other good news however and if you have an iPhone, I think the 3.0 software upgrade will be worth the effort. I am not that sure yet whether at £300 for the 32GB, it will be worth me putting my hand in my pocket.
Ian (of course) will upgrade, he is on P&G and is forever complaining that 16GB is not big enough for him. If the new hardware is demonstrably faster and better then I will consider it – I’ll just let my chief tester Ian try it first
Roll on the 17th of June.

For those of you who not yet have installed 10.5.7 on your machines, you may want to hold off for a while longer.

Nothing officially confirmed as yet, but if my Mac Mini and the reports from this website are anything to go, by there’s a fan control or other heat related issue with the OS update that is causing malfunctions and in my machine’s case, the unit to power off altogether.

So installer beware .

 Well another six monthly Mac lust fest of rumours and speculation is upon us in force. The suspects this year are of course the new iPhones and Snow leopard, MacOS X 10.6.
Now I may be blind (well in one eye anyway) but I’m not seeing anyone else picking up on this. Is it just me or does ‘NTB’ suffix in the recently shown listing of new iPods, refer to the long expected Apple NetBook device but with an iPhone OS not MacOS X?
Just a thought.
See the picture below.

T-Mobile's handset list in Germany this week (Picture AppleInsider)