Apparently one of my home-made tunes is getting a play on Radio 1 tonight, in Vic Galloway's show. Does that make me officially cool? Look out for 'What time is arse' under my carefully-chosen pseudonym Willow and the Tearooms. It should turn up in his podcast too.

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My aging green iPod mini's battery is not what it once was. Apple would no doubt like me to remedy this by shelling out a hundred quid on a lovely new iPod nano, and consign my tired but still functioning device into landfill somewhere. It certainly doesn't look like you can repair it without being an alien from the planet Jobs.

A tempting prospect, I suppose. The new nano is very nice. But no, for seven quid I got a new battery on eBay, and I fitted it myself in 15 minutes with the help of this helpful blogger. So Apple's smug marketing department can piss off. Hooray!