You Americans, you always want to get things cheap! Walmart, Target, K-Mart, money-off, discounts, coupons. Oh, wait, that's a good thing. Lifehacker has some suggestions for you. Just because you can save money doesn't mean you have to spend it, though. Penny saved is a penny earnt, right? 
I'm trying to find a new newsreader (NewsRiver doesn't really work on a USB stick because of the read/write frequency, and I'm fed up with Bloglines). Wikipedia deleted their list of aggregators despite it being extremely useful. I still can't find an aggregator that displays the data in the way I like.
The iPod experience on Windows really sucks arse.
July the 7th 
The Police are claiming that there's a high probability of an attack today. Because terrorists just love attacking on anniversaries
They pulled this right out of their arse, I reckon. Of course, since July the 7th, 2005, not one person has very few people have seen the inside of a British courtroom for any terrorism-related offence. Our justice system is working at full steam locking them away without trial rather than actually trying them for their alleged crimes, thus helping to return us to a medieval approach to criminal justice, where the Police make the decisions and we follow them. Because, the police are obviously right all the time (hence Forest Gate, de Menezes, Harry Stanley, David Mery et al.).
Two predictions: nothing meaningful or transcending the norm of political dullness will be said today. Nobody will have the guts to say anything except the bleeding obvious but, as Diana's death and Christ-like resurrection as the saviour of public consciousness and tabloid newspaper circulation figures proves, we don't particularly want to hear profundity, just politicians sobbing and badly paraphrasing a Disney movie.
That little issue that Ben Franklin pointed out when he said: "Those willing to give up liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty" will be neatly side-stepped. Tony Blair, or one of his chummy disciples, will give us the ultimate Hegelian synthesis - you don't have to choose, you can have both liberty and security, so long as you define liberty to mean CCTV cameras on every street corner, ID cards, persistent DNA databases, biometrics, RFID chips implanted in to every immigrant (because all them immigrants aren't quite terrorists, but it's a nice little lie that you should believe), lots more ASBOs and on-the-spot punishments. You can have liberty and security - just trust me to redefine the former widely enough and you'll have 'em both soon enough, I promise!
I am writing this in blissful ignorance. I'm not sure what politicians are booked up today to speak. I hope as few as possible. If I had the tragic misfortune of losing a friend or family member to terrorism, the last person I'd want to hear share their political grief with the television cameras would be a politician.
Somebody drop me a memo if it's anything but a public spectacle dominated by power-hungry, authoritarians trying to strut it with reality.
Palm Pilot Advice
I'm planning on replacing my Palm Pilot with one of the new ones. Is the T|X any good? I want something with Bluetooth, wifi, a web browser and a reasonably good text editor. What is the best place to buy it in central London? Drop it in the comments (I've got Bloglines working how I want it to work and I'm going to be reading my feeds via my phone and Bloglines Mobile).
