2012 — 19 March: Monday
Happy birthdays1 to number #1 son and number #1 cousin, separated by a mere 28 years and one hundred and some miles. I've raised a virtual glass and an actual slice of toast and marmite to the pair of you. Now (00:23) I'm heading for bed.
It's frosty out there and the salt-spreaders are out and about.
Mere hours later...
... brilliant sunshine is struggling against what seems to have been a hard frost. I can hear the call of Soton quite clearly, but I will let things warm up a bit before I set off.
I've just popped this where it belongs, namely my spam bucket...
... though that "poised" almost made my lips twitch.
What was that...
... about a lie being half way round the world before the truth gets its boots on?
I have difficult news. We've learned that Mike Daisey's story about Apple in China — which we broadcast in January — contained significant fabrications. We're retracting the story because we can't vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey's acclaimed one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," in which he talks about visiting a factory in China that makes iPhones and other Apple products.
Not that my feelings for the late Mr Jobs have changed.
Just finished...
... listening — by no means for the first time — to all four of the 'Twiglet' music soundtrack albums, back-to-back. Fabulous background music.