"HERE'S ONE I MADE EARLIER..."

When you are reading this, we will be airborne on our way to Kalymnos in Greece...

Now the trouble with blogging is that it requires internet connection and, whenever I travel nowadays, I seem to expend an awful lot of anxiety worrying that I may not be able to get on-line to collect my e-mails (which is odd, because, years ago, I never used to think twice about the fact that post would be lying unread on the doormat while I was away) and so be able to approve blog-comments from my regulars...

Therefore, dear reader, if there is any delay, you'll know what to put it down to and, to be honest, I'm not overwhelmingly hopeful especially since I have a strong memory of the sign attached to the computers in interactive section of the Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale...

Image: David Weeks © 2009

WHO NOSE? THE TRUTH...

Now we are safely past the mid-day meridian in the UK (and almost mid-morning on the US West Coast) may I just point out that when I asked, in my earlier - Pinocchio nose - posting, "What I want to know today is whether it's really appropriate for Disney to be involved in marketing Viagra?" the emphasis was on TODAY...

April 1st
ALL FOOL'S DAY!

Congratulations to Jen who (as her comment revealed) spotted what was going on, though I suspect one or two others may have had a sneaking suspicion. As for the advertisement: it is, in fact, a genuine item of spam (if there can be such a thing) and is currently in circulation - though evidently not amongst the kind of people who read this blog!

Here's a couple of great April Fool's Day hoaxes...

Read the shock announcement in The Guardian that the paper is about to switch from ink and paper to Twitter. Brilliant!

The introduction of revolutionary new software from Opera...

And an unbelievable new piece of technology from Palm - the PomeGranate phone...

LIES, DAMNED LIES AND...

...INTERNET SPAM!

We may be on a remote Greek Island, but the spam in still pouring into our e-mail boxes.

The lengths those spamsters will go to to get us to read their e-mails for Viagra or fake Rolexes!

Here are just a few recent subject headings that almost prevented me from hitting the 'Junk' button...

David Beckham seen in LA nightclub
with Kirsten Dunst

Miss America slept with judge

Michael Jordan caught with fraud

Hugh Hefner releases summer orgy pics

Michael J Fox found dead in apartment

Earthquake in California destroys
Schwarzenegger house

And by far the best of the bunch:

Ancient remains of Egyptian mummies
found in Florida

and

Elton John dies in rocket ship