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Just read this article about AI:

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/popvo...winner-is.aspx

Ok, so I don't know how to use the Berry properly

Click here for the weirdest Takeaway deal ever:

http://twitpic.com/5wyrw

ying something new here on the Berry so don't know if it'll work, but
try clicking on the link above... It should take you to a photo I left on Twitter - it's a flyer for a Takeaway that we received this morning

Well I always knew about Radar, but James T was a surprise!

At the flicks, just came out of Star Trek...

Did you know Captain Kirk comes from Iowa?!!

Hey, in all the Idol excitement and trainspotting, I forgot to ask, what's the story with your new avi?

Wellll.... See, it's sort of a long story. I'm not quite old enough to drive, which means the one who would have to troop me down the 3-hour drive to Cincinatti would be my dad. Now, my dad really, really likes Coldplay (which is very impressive because he hates almost all a) contemporary bands and b) rock bands period) but he HATES going to concerts. My dad is not, as you would say, a "people person" -- I mean, he hates crowds, hates the noise, etc. and while he considered it for a while, he decided he didn't want to pay ~$200 - $300 to drive alll the way down there (that's another thing he hates, as it happens -- driving, I mean, especially for long distances) sit through a noisy concert for three hours, drive alllll the way back (at night -- incidentally, something he hates even more than driving ) etc. etc. The three main things he hates are sort of stacked up against me as you can probably tell

Plus he said, "oh I only like classical concerts, those are the only ones where you can really hear the music" (which is a pretty fair point, imo) and also "oh you're just better off listening to the albums anyway" (which is an AWFUL point, imo ) I then told him that Coldplay was epic live and I think he figured I was just exaggerating to get him to go with me.

It's okay, though. I've not even been to any REAL, fairly large concerts, so I probably at least don't know exactly what I'm missing out on Plus I really don't want to piss him off extremely over one little concert, cuz our relationship is kind of fragile, and I don't want to... you know, damage it.

Next time they swing round here, after the fifth album maybe, I'll be able to drive there myself, I think, so it's all good. Also, I'll probably be able to lie in wait for the band to come round signing albums and everything too! Which I DEFINTELY could NOT do with my father in tow.

So, that's my tragic tale of why I can't go to a Coldplay concert

oh, thanks

For a while I thought I was going to see them down in Cincinatti, but it turns out I'm not

I hate ironing so never do any... but I'd make an exception for the Berrypants

Hmmn... the PM... to open or not to open... going to log off for tea... may retrieve it when I get back...

How quickly things progress - you realise five days ago I Pm'd to say Mark & I were going to come to the States for two weeks and you said to set aside a day or two to visit... now I'm planning for four to five weeks with at least one of them in South Carolina and we've already looked at train journeys

Should we email our numbers to Obama? We could settle the Middle East and the Credit Crunch for him by Christmas the way we work