Kitsimons

I'm in a bad mood today, but getting home and reading articles like Can the Mac catch a cold on the BBC's dot.life blog just irritates me even further.

I'm sorry Rory Cellan-Jones, but that's simply a poorly thought out, poorly written article and I'm amazed that something so ill-conceived can make it onto a blog that is no doubt held in high regard by so many.

The anti-Mac crowd may wish to turn away now (or alternatively start a fight in the comments...)

After over a year of devoted service, my Apple Mighty Mouse has succumbed to the widely reported broken ball syndrome.

In spite of various attempts at resuscitation, including blasting the scroll ball with compressed air and following various other suggestions, the ball refuses to track up and its ability to track down is fading fast.

Time for a replacement mouse. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

They say no good deed goes unpunished. My karmic kick in the arse came today in the form of a parking ticket, issued while I was giving a pro bono presentation on web design to a series of community groups and charities here in Leicester.

35 hard earned British Pounds if I cough up within 2 weeks. Thank you cruel world.

I'm one of those people who makes absolutely no use of the Genre in iTunes. As such I've always hidden the Genre when browsing, mainly to avoid having to stare at a disorganised, redundant mess of a column in my iTunes library.

The Genre could always be turned off by un-checking an option in iTunes' general preferences. Imagine my horror then when I installed iTunes 8 and realised the option to hide the Genre when browsing had vanished! Surely I wasn't going to have to suffer the visual pollution of a messy, useless pane in my iTunes library?

Browsing through the Olympic medal tables on CNN yesterday, I came across a glaring example of media bias. CNN's Olympic medal table eschews the weighted system used by the IOC (and the rest of the World) in favour of a blunt total medal count.

Surprise, surprise, the total medal count puts the USA top of the medal table. The problem, of course, is that the USA is not top of the Olympic medal table. At the time of posting, China tops the table by quite a margin, with the USA in 2nd place.