As heard on Look East and Radio Suffolk:-
"expecting accumulation".
In other words, "it's going to settle".

Or has it been previously used on weather reports about snow and I've just missed it ?

A work colleague has a question.

She's got an iPod Nano for her daughter, wants to get the Girls Aloud "Out of Control in concert" DVD but wants to know whether this will convert in some way so that it can be viewed on the iPod.

I said I didn't know but I was sure there would be a fine group of people who would know whether it was possible and what to do. And this is (hopefully) where you come in ?

Driving back from swimming with my son (age 5), with "Abba Gold" playing. He suddenly pipes up with "Daddy – this is wrong. It should be 'Please give me a man after midnight' shouldn't it ?". I'm torn between wanting to laugh and being hugely impressed that he's applying what he's learned about good manners to different situations.

I'm now wondering whether I need to vet the whole iPod for other similarly ill-mannered songs. Obviously "Please Please Me" will be okay...

...to Word Podcast 100 (the Abbey Road one), in which the Michael Jackson concerts, and the man himself, are discussed.

For those members of the Word Massive interested in football (and I believe there are a few !), this is on the BBC site at the moment - how they actually put the fixture list together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_c...

So I set Sky+ for FX's showing of episode 1 of "The Wire" on Monday and last night, with the telly to myself and no particular interest in any of the football that was on, settled in to watch 'the greatest TV drama ever made' and... fell asleep halfway through, and had to wind back to about 40 minutes in (it's been a busy week).

I'm determined to stick with it though. Do I need a stronger mug of coffee for the next episode ?

Whilst looking to see what's on the telly tonight, I stumble across this...

Paris Hilton's British Best Friend
ITV2, 9pm
"Socialite Paris Hilton crosses to this side of the pond in search of a British best friend to party with her when she is in the UK. She will put 12 hopefuls from across the land through their paces to test their ambition and drive. In LA, Paris holds a leaving party and says goodbye to her precious dogs. Once in the UK, it is time for the 11 girls and one guy to undergo a makeover before Paris subjects them to a gruelling interrogation. Who will be the first to be eliminated ?"

I'm sure there's a more pointless programme but right now I can't think of it.

Friday is dress down day at work, and there's a guy here wearing a t-shirt bearing the legend "Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls"

It may not be "I love the smell of vinyl in the morning" but I liked it.

1) Rick Astley winning Best Act Ever at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

2) John Sergeant in Strictly, where people seem to be voting more “to stick it to those judges” or “for a laugh” or “to wind everyone up” than for his occasionally endearing prowess on the dancefloor. It’s starting to look like the actual best dancer may have to settle for second place.

3) The latest “I’m A Celebrity” where Joe Swash seems likely to face endless Bushtucker Trials because he screamed like a girl at the first one (I’m not even watching this but somehow I already know too much about it).

1) The person you don’t want to be is Great Britain’s big hope for a medal on the very first morning of competition because you’re almost inevitably doomed. Craig Fallon in the Judo ?

2) Maddest commentator – Gary Herbert at the rowing, by some distance. Followed by Hugh Porter at the Cycling. In fairness, they’ve had stuff to go mad about...

3) Can’t believe that we were watching (and getting excited by) Windsurfing the other morning. It’s like how you’d only ever watch Angola v Poland when it’s part of the World Cup.

4) Is Athletics a bit like the football of the Olympics ? Hogs the attention as soon as it starts and, for some people, is all that matters ? And will probably continue to get the lion’s share of the money despite other sports doing better.

5) Various sailing medallists swearing live on Olympic Breakfast – hilarious. And that’s why you shouldn’t attempt to interview anyone immediately after they’ve finished.

6) I know we’re resigned to everyone coming here ‘to medal’ or ‘to get a PB’ but when did it become “the 400 IM” in swimming ? And when did they become “P-Bars” in gymnastics ?

7) The footage of the presenters watching the Women’s 400m and hearing Sue Barker’s terribly polite “come on Christine… come on Christine…”, slightly out of place with Colin Jackson practically doing a lap of honour within the limited space available to him.

8) I wonder how much bad news the government has buried while this has been going on.

9) Right now people are locked in BBC editing suites putting together ‘best bits’ montages for the last day. Do you think they’ll be crashingly obvious and use “Bicycle Race” for the Cycling Team ?

I've got a lot of CDs from the late 80s early 90s when they were mastered a lot quieter than they are now and it means that when something quieter and slower from one of them comes on shuffle, I have to really turn the volume up as high as it will go and even then can’t hear it very well above the background noise.

Within the settings, I can set the iPod to "Normalise volume across all songs" but it picks the quietest level rather than boosting all the quiet songs.

Can you get the iPod to normalise volume, picking the louder level rather than the quieter one ? Or is there some other way of doing it ? Is this where something like the Levelator would help ?

Sky+ is fantastic. Series Link. Winding through adverts at 30x. It even copes with overrunning sporting events. However the one thing it can't deal with is the BBC doing an unscheduled switching of channels halfway through a game, like they did with Andy Murray's match last night.

We set it to record (Mrs H didn't get in till 7.15) and started watching after putting young Master H to bed and saw Andy Murray clinch the 3rd set in thrilling fashion at about 9.40, at which point the Sky+ recording ran out, the game itself had finished, there was no BBC1+1 and we were left to find out the result from BBCi.

And I was interested to read this morning Paul Davies, BBC Sport's executive producer at Wimbledon, saying "It's fantastic that such a great sporting event was brought to a wider audience. The decision to switch it to BBC One was vindicated by so many viewers watching the climax of the match." Maybe he would like to have been in our house last night where Mrs H would happily have vindicated his decision, probably in extremely painful fashion.

Could they not put a trailer on BBC1 instead that says "you might be interested to know that there's a bloody amazing tennis match going on right now on BBC2", for all the apparent millions who don't understand that such a channel exists ?

Note to selves – watch sport live whenever possible.

Loading the Now Hear This CD into the iPod and noticed that the Half Man Half Biscuit track was listed as "Blue Badger Abuser" – still sounds like a Half Man Half Biscuit song title, albeit more surreal and unsavoury...

Had to e-mail someone called Rhiannon at work today. Is there another name so identified with a band as Rhiannon ? Whenever we hear of someone with that name, we always end up thinking "her parents were Fleetwood Mac fans then".