22nd April 2009 - During the week, the drama of the legal or illegal diffusers was finally resolved with the governing body hearing, in court, all sides of the story and deciding in the end that they are legal.

We have all gone away for a few days or weeks, or just gone back to the desk after a weekend and found to our disgust that spam had abducted our inboxes. Just like it's only slightly meatier cousin the email type of spam is unpalatable and disturbing. It's infuriating, time wasting and sometimes strangely invasive. You do tend to wonder how a dutch washing machine company got your email address and why it is sending you emails regarding their fabulous and surprisingly tempting new deals on dryers!

Held in July each year, some say it is the best kept secret in Europe, classy people like to call it an ‘intimate boutique festival’, others just come to dance under the stars in a 900 year old Croatian village.

"Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!"  Those are the famous last words of the comedian Groucho Marx.  But several new Internet sites are trying to prove old Groucho wrong by allowing you to communicate after death.

Did you know, I didn’t, that the winner of The Masters is obliged to sit down to dinner with the Augusta National members following their victory?

Alan Shipnuck writes,

 After spending two weeks working in a remote Costa Rican fishing village in late 2007, it made a nice (and drastic) change to check into a fairly plush hotel, high in the mercifully cool mountains. Flicking through the cable channels, trying to find something on TV to watch in English, I stumbled across a North American news channel.

Dear Youth, I am writing this letter of complaint to address a few concerns I have with your behaviour of late.
 

18th April 2009 - Dragonball is a Japanese anime series that ran from 1986 to 1997 in three different incarnations; Dragonball, Dragonball Z and Dragonball GT.

There is no shortage of lists that claim to report the "top" songs.  They range from Billboard, which while US based is probably the best know music chart around the wor