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.
There is no gain-saying that Robert Fisk, fiercely independent and feisty to boot, is the veteran journalist and author covering the Middle East. Who doesn't he know or hasn't he met over the years in reporting from Beirut - where he lives? In his latest op-ed piece for The Independent he lays out his predictions for the Middle East for 2013. Read the piece in full, here - well worthwhile - but an extract... "Never make predictions in the Middle East. My crystal ball broke long ago. But predicting the region has an honourable pedigree. “An Arab movement, newly-risen, is looming in the distance,” a French traveller to the Gulf and Baghdad wrote in 1883, “and a race hitherto downtrodden will presently claim its due place in the destinies of Islam.” A year earlier, a British diplomat in Jeddah confided that “it is within my knowledge... that the idea of freedom does at present agitate some minds even in Mecca...” So let’s say this for 2013: the “Arab Awakening” (the t...
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