Went to the Imperial Valley Mall as usual on Saturday, first store we see has a giant posted of Father Christmas in the window. I’m like wtf? The banner proclaims “Look who we’ve got inside” or some such message. A look through the window showed a display of Christmas ornaments and assorted crap. I wanted to go inside and shout “Don’t you know it’s only fricken’ July” but I was distracted by the shouts of “orange chicken?” and “sample?” from the nearby Chinese eaterie.

I usually get my morning news from two sources - the liars and cheaters at the BBC, and CNN. CNN.com had been getting more and more video-oriented so I had been finding their site less and less useful but the new redesigned webpage takes uselessness to a whole new level. There is hardly any actual news on the web page these days. So, this morning, it came off my bookmarks. Need to find a replacement, maybe MSNBC?

• So You Think You Can Dance is easily the best reality show on TV
• Why is there not one, but two, shows on right now to do with getting the words right to a song? Ack.
• What’s the deal with the Bollywood, ahem, dancer getting to the final 20 in America’s Got Talent? Talk about crap!
• Everything else is even worse, I can’t even bear to look at Pirate Master.

Well almost.

• In case you missed it, the 60GB PS3 is now down to $499 and if you hurry you can buy it now and get 6 free (though admittedly lame) Blu-ray discs, and a free remote controller to go, with it. No, there still aren’t many good games but one reason to buy now is that the Playstation2 emulation will soon be software-based soon rather than in hardware.
• The rumours are flying about the iPhone nano. Much smaller and much cheaper are good, though I still think that I don’t really want a phone-capable iPhone.
• Finally, there is word of the iPhone Shuffle - it will be even smaller than the nano, and will only be capable of dialing random people from your contacts list.