Google Domination continues, with their purchase of the fantastic site YouTube. I'm not quite sure why they want to buy it, as they already have their own version, 'Google Video', and at £883 million this isn't coming cheap!
I hope this won't adversely affect the anarchic quality of YouTube. With all the legal hoo-hah surrounding copyright issues, videos are being taken off the site almost as regularly as they're being uploaded, but we're not really going on there to see free episodes of Lost or Family Guy (are we?!). No, we want to see things like Numa Numa, or generally anything that involves someone falling on their arse! Brilliant.
I have seen the future, and it's terrifying. Half the world will be owned by Google, and the other half by Tesco. There will have to be a fight to the death. Who's going to win that one?
I was sorry to hear about the death of snooker genius Paul Hunter yesterday, losing his battle with cancer. He was about my age, which makes it doubly scary. I've always been disappointingly rubbish at snooker. Unlike football, where a) I can't play it and b) I don't care, I really wish I could get to grips with knocking balls round a table. Such ambition! But I'm just not an angles man.
Anyone read any of the books on the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize? No? Me neither. I'm sure they're all very worthy, but I'm also sure that they could make my eyelids snap shut at twenty paces. I'm STILL struggling my way through this... It's very good - detailed, intellectual, slightly short on plot!
