One would have to be blind not to see what seems like an ever-increasing number of people under the age of 35 "plugged into" their Apple ipods or Apple Shuffles. Never tried either one? Now with the ability to download podcasts from a vast range of web sites not to join into the ipod revolution is to be missing out on one of the joys of music and everything beside - "on the go", as it were, and wherever. Check out www.apple.com.au and you too will soon be rockin' and rollin' in and with whatever music genre appeals to you. And the beauty of the Apple technology is that you don't even have to have an Apple computer. The whole kit and kaboodle will work equally well in the PC world.
Only a gigantic bureaucracy could get away with spending of such dimensions - and the amazing waste involved in part of that ginormous spend. Think US Pentagon..... "From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represe...
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