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Saw on the news today that my all time favourite star, Kylie Minogue, has breast cancer. Of course, we all wish her a speedy recovery.

Haven’t had one of these in a while, the tune that’s getting most time on my iPod right now is Natasha Bedingfield – I Bruise Easily. Only available on the UK store unfortunately so you’ll have to download it from somewhere else. Talking of which I read an interview with an iTunes exec recently which said they are looking into ways of opening up all the stores to everyone; they get a lot of complaints from people wanting to download music from other country’s stores. Well, from the UK store, anyway.

Ok, people, didn’t any of you read my Idol blog last week?? wtf, how is it that Scott was in the top 3, his talentless ass should be gone. And Constantine – not my favourite but no way was he #6 in this show. This show gets more of a joke every week of every season, and yet still I watch it. Argh!!!

Oh, and I lost a bet of a 6 pack of diet coke over Scott’s non-elimination, you all owe me.

Keen readers amongst you may remember that I lost all my music files in my recent hard drive crash but I am glad to say that this awesome piece of software has come to my rescue. Anapod Explorer lets you transfer files to and from your iPod as it were a regular Windows device. Plug it in to your PC and it appears in your Explorer like just another drive. It will let you manage playlists, stream your iPod music from your PC or even over the web! Here’s a comparison of Anapod and iTunes to help you out. I bought the Universal version and it really does rock.

Dear pimply teenage girl, please stop voting for Scott and Anthony. Each week that I see them survive the vote, the voices in my head urging me to kill get louder and louder and I don’t know that I can refuse to obey them for much longer. So please, start voting for the people who can (a) sing a note and (b) have some, any, personality. In case you need help identifying those people, they are Vonsall, Carrie, Bo and Constantine.

In other reality-related news, CNN is reporting that Trump is rumoured to have paid $1M to the cruise ship that was recently struck by the 7ft wave to have it return to NY early so it could appear on The Apprentice. Without this financial incentive the ship would probably not have ended the cruise early, or sailed through a raging storm. If true, I think the vacationers should sue his ass and tell the Trumpster: you’re fired.

I’m really digging Fred on XM Radio right now, lots of great British bands I’d long forgotten. Today they played Sparks’ This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us, I don’t how long its been since I heard that. And who can forget the Sparks guy with the starey eyes that just looked at the camera the whole time?!

On a whim I bought Beautiful South’s Painting It Red album at the weekend from the iTunes music store and I heartily recommend it. You can find it for yourself at this link if you are an iTunes user. Actually, it will still be there even if you’re not.

I have often talked about how I like the XM radio channel UPop but that one of the problems is finding the tracks that I like. Well, that got a little bit easier with the new Club UPop website which, amongst its many offerings, has a page listing all the tracks played in the last 24 hours. It doesn’t solve the problem of how to find the items to download but it does make it easier to remember what I was looking for in the first place.

Now I know every teenager and music lover in the world already has this but I just discovered it. Replay Music captures any streaming audio from any source and lets you save it. It even looks up the tags online and sets them to what you’ve recorded. Not that I would ever do that of course, Mr RIAA lawyer, but its cool that I can.

Been spending my iTunes gift vouchers and, thanks to U-Pop on XM radio, purchased the excellent Hopes and Fears by British band Keane.