where do we start?.......

Arsenal

Well, i'll get Arsenal out of the way first, still in turmoil, Fabregas has now officially gone, 1 point in our first 2 games, 2 red cards and Wenger facing disciplinary action in the champions league.........brilliant!

Apart from administration or alien abduction, i'm pretty sure it couldn't get worse, so it can only get better. With around 10 days left of the transfer window, we have one last chance to put things right and we do have the cash to do so! Hopefully we get money for Nasri (rather than him go for free at the end of the season), Bendtner goes, Eboue has already gone (yay!), we get through the 2nd leg against Udinese and we manage to salvage a point against United. Thats probably the best we are going to get over the next week then its just a case of bringing in players quick!

George Graham reckons 3 is the right amount and i'd agree, not to many to rock the boat but enough to make the difference and they all have to be world class. Per Mertesacker would be very ideal in the defence and a reasonable price tag of under 10mil! A creative holding midfielder next, Frimpong is doing a good job but we need a first team heavyweight in there, then an out and out striker who just scores goals, no messing about on the ball, just goals! There are loads of striker options but I fear Wenger will just buy another flair player of which we are completely saturated. Another point i'd like to make is why does he not play Arshavin in the middle? he hasn't done anything on the wing and I reckon he would suit a role just behind RVP a treat!

itunes

I've 'dabbled' a bit in itunes before, owning an macbook, there is no option for windows media player so i was stuck with it (ignoring the many alternative players out there!), but I didn't really use it....until now!

My PC is old and weak and pretty much just plays music for me now but WMP went a bit scatty and couldn't read any of my library or anything, it could only play what I dragged in on that session which is not ideal. So I have switched to itunes properly now and been working my way around it. I have to say, despite my initial reluctance's, it isn't bad.

I have a bit of a problem with duplicate tracks and it seems to have made both mp3 and aac copies of all my old wma tracks pretty much tripling all those files so I have spent the morning trying to delete all the aac's and wma's to leave just the mp3's.

The other problem is the fact that I have music spread across 2 drives and with all this duplication it has duplicated some things again (i have no idea why bar the fact they are on a different drive to my itunes folder).

These problems aside (which I would like quick solutions for!) the rest of it has been great. Perhaps the most impressive part I found was the automatic organisation of the itunes folder. Though I want to now bring in all of my music to that folder and I am unsure as to whether it will organise the tracks I drop in again :s

All being well, my relationship with itunes will be a good one. Relationships with Apple products usually are.

Giving Blood

Another 'milestone' this weekend is that I have registered to give blood and signed up for my first session on 25th. Something that I have always thought about doing but just never have but after there was a major problem during a family members' operation earlier this year which caused them to lose almost all of their blood I felt I need to get doing it and though I can't catch up the time I have missed, I can at least get something on the board.