Ricky Gervais is one of my favourite comedians (The Office, Extras) and has produced the first in a series of podcasts for The Grauniad with Stephen Merchant (co-writer) and Karl Pilkington (who has a hard time). The podcast is 30 minutes of chat and improvisation but very funny.

Scobleizer’s trip to the Guinness brewery reminds me of a similar visit I enjoyed many years ago with a few friends. After enduring the 45 minute tour of the Dublin brewery, we finally settled back to enjoy the free samples which were willingly dispensed in 1/2 pint glasses of sheer perfection. After a while (seven halves), I sensed the barmaid was about to ask ‘Shouldn’t you lads be moving on now ?’ but one of our party got in first with ‘Have you not got any pint glasses back there ?’

Don’t know where, don’t know when but SonicStage 3.3 is available. Includes ATRAC Lossless format, ripping WMA CD’s, wider range of bitrates for ATRAC3Plus and MP3. However, SonicStage remains the only software application in the modern world without a ‘Check for updates’ option.

The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It U2 - City of Blinding Lights Wonder if Brandon got up and played the piano when U2 recently supported The Killers.

In a previous article, I wanted to add a trackback to properly cite an article on Ben Gillbank’s blog about his Regulus theme. I couldn’t find the trackback URL but, as ever, WordPress is doing all the donkey work for me and now I see my posting does indeed appear as a comment in Ben’s original article. No manual intervention, head scratching or wasted time. Exactly as it should be.