Pinch Punch First Day of the Month...

It's that time of year again. September. Oh yes indeed. Never fails. You can count on it to be on time every year...

Got myself a USB memory stick with mp3 player and memo recorder. Was £50 which I thought was well worth it considering it's 1GB - the memory sticks cost about £40 alone (maybe more), so for a little bit more, I thought the music features would come in handy. Here's what it looks like:

Approximation by my middle finger size: it's slightly longer, about as thick as, and approximately 1-and-half the width. Entirely made of plastic (nearly). The sound quality is really good, SnR of 90 (for those of you in the know).
It's just like an iPod Shuffle (yes, it has a random play function!! Amazing, I know (!) - it's as if no other music playing device has ever had a shuffle function...), except cheaper. Oh and I don't look like everyone else with it either. Ha de ha ha!

The news of over 960 people dying in a stampede in Iraq because someone (possibly) crying wolf of 'suicide bomber' is quite worrying. I don't think that a suicide bomber alone could have caused that amount of carnage, but those people are so worked up about the current situations of the warring factions that anything could provoke a surge of frigthened screaming and panicky running. There has got to be an undescribable amount of tension out there.

Ah, just remembered that the (kind of new) Sony PSP is out in Europe finally - not that I'm buying one. It looks pretty funky though, what with it being a portable media player and entertainment system. £180, don't know if you get anything with it, but no doubt the stores will be offering deals left, right and centre. Find out its specs and compared to other handhelds at the BBC.

Finally, what the hell was Al Fayed thinking... Diana bronze unveiled at Harrods. The world has gone nuts.