So as some of the more astute of you may have noticed I have updated the basic Kubric theme for wordpress, I am now using the far superior K2. K2 has lots of nice touches most of which I plan to mess around with by editing the style sheet, however one of the best things is that I can upload images for the header at the top of the page and have it set randomly so they change each time the page is loaded.  If you have some images that you think deserve to be in the header please email them across and I’ll up load them.

On to my main point/s, I love podcasts I think they are brilliant.  I’ve been raving on about them for ages, in fact I have bored Katie’s theatre friends to death about them (so much so that one of Katie’s friend called Ben now refers to me only as Podcast!) and they all laughed at the idea and said it was silly.  But about 9 months ago they changed their mind when the realised it had all gone mainstream and had to conceed I was right. I used to love using iTunes to download them, it fitted in so nicely with the ipod and I had one app to rule them all.  Or I did.  Since Apple updated iTunes to version 7, I have hated it.  Its slow and has had serious playback bugs (which have been fixed in version 7.0.1) but they changed the interface for podcasts.  I have to go to a separate window to see whats happening or cancel a download and it has bothered me so much that I have decided to go back to using a separate program to download podcasts, a program called Juice (originally called iPodder or iPodder Lemon). I previously used Juice before iTunes introduced podcast functionality, it had a clean and simple interface and it worked well.  The only thing I have given up by reverting back to Juice is that now my podcasts don’t have the ability to add audio bookmarks.  I think that I will continue to look though to see if there’s a better solution out there but for the moment I’m all juiced up.

I found my old iPaq the other day and have decided to turn it into a ebook reader (as I have a few ebooks) but thought it was a bit of a waste and was wondering what else I could use it for when Lifehacker posted this brilliant article.

As I am sure that you are all desperate to know what else I have been up to, I thought I would tell you I have been trying to perfect my batter mix to make top notch Yorkshire pudding’s and toad in the hole.  So far this is my second batch and I have defiantly worked out the kinks but remember you also need smoking oil in the baking tray before you put it in the oven as well, otherwise it won’t rise right.