The first in an occasional series. Or something.

I took this from our fifth floor balcony at Threadneedle’s Hotel last weekend.

I like it…

From Top Gear on Sunday. Jeremy Clarkson to be precise, whilst introducing The Stig…

Some say to unlock him you have to stroke his face like this [Clarkson strokes face of audience member, a reference to the method required to switch an Apple iPhone on] and that if he was divorcing Paul McCartney he would keep his whining mouth shut [the audience applauds wildly and Jeremy pauses for a short moment]… [laughing]….. all we know is, he’s called The Stig!

Oh yes!

I’m slowly, slowly coming around to Friends. This is mainly due to Chandler Bing, who in contrast to Ross, Phoebe, Rachel is consistently funny.

This evening though Chandler Bing rose to God-like status…

Chandler Bing hates dogs too!

Lucky me! I’m one of probably millions of those who have had the revised version of GMail / Google Mail made available to them. The full list of changes have been written about here but in short the key differences are this :

• Your e-mail address is now shown in the address bar
• You can “mute” dull conversations so they skip the Inbox automatically
• There’s a fancy new contacts interface (easily the weakest part of GMail before I think)
• A new “Filter messages like these” option appears in the message drop down
• If I needed to I could use IMAP
• You can use AOL chat. Should you want to…
• The contacts pictures integrate with Picasa Web, should you use it

And that’s it…

There are probably other things too, and I can switch back if I want. I’ve noticed none of the other minor teething troubles I’ve read about in a quick search of the net, and it’s certainly not as horrible as the Yahoo! and Hotmail updates.

It’s OK. Shame the CustomizeGoogle add-on to Firefox doesn’t seem to work with it though. I can see the spam counter & adverts again now…

On Wednesday Heather Mills-McCartney complained on GMTV that the media was pushing her to the edge in the way they did with the People’s Arse.

The next day she went on US TV and publicly slagged off Paul McCartney over their divorce.

Here’s some advice, put more succinctly than I could manage by Helen, for Ms Mills-McCartney :

“If you don’t like the media, just fuck off!”

Indeed…