Ryan, No!

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mon 13 feb, 8-9 pm, channel 4

DISPATCHES: RYANAIR: CAUGHT NAPPING A major undercover investigation into the way in which Ryanair, one of the largest and most successful low-costairlines, operates. Two Dispatches reporters spent five months secretly filming the airline's training programme and onboard flights as members of the cabin crew. What they found may make you think twice about flying Ryanair again. The undercover footage reveals what takes place behind the scenes: security lapses, dirty aircrafts, pilots complaining about the hours they have to fly and exhausted cabin crew. The cynical staff attitudes towards passengers and their welfare are also unmasked in Ryanair: Caught Napping. Prod/ Dir: Karen Edwards; Exec Prod: Steve Boulton; Prod Co: Steve Boulton Productions

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Tesco Bag

...everybody keeps saying Tesco is terrible but I just can't see it...

Upgrade to Walmart

It's sad, I missed yesterday's Cuong Vu concert. To make up for it, I searched celebrity playlists of artists I had seen live in the past for new music pre-streams. Interface: iTunes Music Store. iForgot, and iRemembered: Apple is American! Their visual 'explicit' vs 'clean' music tagging made this abundantly clear. Upgrade their Software (my Software?), install a bit more of Walmart thinking on my machine (their machine?).

Walmart? I think it was Naomi Klein who told the story of how even the old Nirvana's changed their lyrics so that their CD's would be stocked in Walmarts throughout the US...

* the pics: Nils Petter Molvaer likes it explicit, while Helmet buy clean music! (ok, Helmet are actually much less boybandish than it looks like on the pic (though there's pretty daft lyrics as well, 'I know that you're clever you've mentioned that before', genius), but the pic itself: hilarious, I like it, guy rocking to a palm tree drum jungle or something)

Apple Care

On my way to the Apple Store I kind of bumped into Ali G. He was standing in front of Hamley's Toy Store, being annoyingly yellow, shooting soap bubbles at the stars. Hitting only Regent Street, though. They were amazing to cycle through. I enjoyed them. I laughed. Should have warned me, though. Never enter an Apple Store disarmed and relaxed!

My all-smiles, all-energetic sales guy ('Hello! I am XX, and I'll be your personal mugger today!') broke the stunning news to me that not only I could actually BUY something in that place (keepin' it real, Ali). I was also in the lucky position to purchase TWO items for the price of one. Oh, yes, the object in question being a replacement power supply for my laptop, with, starring item no1: the cable going into my laptop, and, starring item no2: the cable going into the wall socket. huh? what the f***? (Well, Apple is hiring sales personnel, so maybe you are gone by now? But, to be fair, the guy on the sales till was worse, talking porn and telling me not to nick the Apple pen.) Please! Out there! Don't let them become Apple Geniusses! And, btw, I want other equipment!