This tune wandered into my mental jukebox the other day and just would not go away.I had Quickstep and Sidekick on cassette which if my memory serves me well had extra tracks to the LP version. It’s long surprised me that it’s never been re-released as the album ,for me, sits nicely between The Thompson Twins earlier political incarnation and their slightly later purely commercial offerings.
So I try to suppress the memory of them slaughtering The Beatles Revolution along with Madonna at Live Aid and revisit an album that I used to like a lot and hope that the refrain “This is where we all fall-out” will soon stop playing again and again in my own unpredictable mental jukebox.
Synchronicty alert: After providing the Wikipedia links I find that the release of the cassette version on CD has only recently finally occurred. UK information here.
I noticed one of these things on sale in our local pharmacy and was a bit taken aback at such a solution for an allergy especially as its proposed solution had managed to entirely pass by my personal radar.
I’m not one to rush to purchase an unknown quantity on impulse so though I’d delve into the Internet a bit more to gauge opinions. I managed to find a very much more expensive unit for sale on Amazon UK with some amusing comments from purchasers;
“I was desperate. I found this. I spent a stupid amount of money. I looked like a firefly three times a day for six weeks…”
Some were good and inevitably others for whom the treatment had not worked were less complimentary, which no doubt pained the purchaser slightly more after spending £80 as opposed to the £14 version I saw in the local pharmacy.
I’m suffering a lot with hayfever this year despite my usual piriton tablets so am wondering if £14 is a price worth taking a chance on that such a “left-field’ form of therapy might see some relief though I admit to being as sceptical as I am intrigued.
If anyone has tried red light therapy for the relief of allergy symptoms I’d love to hear how you got on whether good or bad.
This is a fast microwave fruit snack ‘How To” that I thought I’d write up as I hadn’t done this for nearly 20 years and suddenly fancied a quick baked apple snack. It shouldn’t take any longer than 3 minutes including preparation and cooking.
Ingredients:
1 Apple
Currants or raisins
Honey
Method:
Core the apple, making sure you remove the pips
Score the apple skin with a sharp knife around the apple’s ‘equator’
Place the apple on a microwave proof plate
Fill the cored centre of the apple with the small fruit of your choice-sultanas, raisins, chopped apricot or even berries
Microwave on high for 2 minutes
Allow to stand before removing the baked apple from the microwave
Pour a small ammount of honey in the centre of the apple and over the central fruits
Reluctant Blogger asked me about using twitter clients today so though I’d share a comparison of some of the popular ones. Obviously it’s easy to just use twitter via the twitter website or as many post via texting on their mobile phone or Instant messenger client but many people use a dedicated desktop client or an add on to their web browser.
Flock - the social media browser based on firefox has a twitter widget built in.
Twitterific - a small twitter client for mac OS X. I find it a little annoying to have to go into preferences to set the client view for either friend or public timeline but it supports growl notifications on OS X.
Twhirl - Very popular with a lot of people and recently bought by up and coming social video service Seesmic (so might we see video tweets soon?) it has some great features like the ability to search public tweets by a keyword subject though it does not provide a public timeline view at this time.It requires Adobe air to run.
Spaz - Another adobe air based client and currently my favourite. it supports growl notifications on the Mac and key for me is that it’s easy to toggle between friend tweets and the public timeline.Shame about the dubious product name though.
It’s easy to see what people are using as their tweets usually show what method or software they’ve used to post a message after each post.
It’s always good to hear about new twitter and micro-blogging clients.
AOL has finally released AOL Desktop for Mac after several months of betas. The dedicated software can be used by anyone independent of who their Internet ISP is and brings a lot of the ‘hand-holding’ benefits of AOL’s previous portal software offerings that many people including the oft neglected senior or newbie Internet users seem to prefer.
AOL Desktop for Mac has perhaps received slightly more preferential development treatment than the Windows standalone equivalent though both are part of AOL’s continuing process of opening up their previous proprietary mail, chat and exclusive content offerings to all Internet users as AOL has sold off many of it’s ISP concerns around the world (the Carphone Warehouse bought AOL’s UK ISP wing recently).
The AOL browser is based around Apple’s Safari and boasts tabbed browsing and Safari’s speedy operation though content is US orientated and UK users may prefer to use the AOL UK page as the homepage or just access via their preferred browser.
