It really was one of the easiest things I ever did. I smoked for 15 years and boy, did I love my Gauloises Blondes! I never ever thought I would be able to quite, but after reading Allan Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking, I gave it up. Or gave it back. What ever.

I am very happy to say that 3 years of being a secondary smoker has been absolutely awesome.

Want to stop smoking? Read the book. You don’t have to stop as soon as you complete the book, so just read the book.

It will change your life, IF you complete the 250 page book. Get if from Kalahari.

I subscribed to Audible.com after hearing about it on the excellent TWIT technology podcasts. The deal was that if you subscribe to the special offer, you can choose one audio book of your liking.

I subscribed, and gave my credit card details, as you could not register otherwise. I thought I would give this whole audio book thing a bash.

As soon as I looked for a suitable book, I realised that as a international user, living in South-Africa, I can only see a very small percentage of the available books. Rightly so, I was annoyed, as there was no mention anywhere obvious that I would not have access to all the books. I have now decided to cancel my account, mainly because the international selection is so small.

Only thing, I can’t de-register. There is no option for me to de-register. According to the website I should be able to do it, but I don’t see the link. I then e-mail them, only to receive an automated response that I should phone the call centre to cancel my account. Note, this is an international call they want me to make, to cancel my account. And this for a service which is not what I signed up for.

Obviously they don’t allow me to remove my credit card details.

Now what? And yes Leo Laporte, I think you should do something about this. I have heard references on your show that other international listeners are also unhappy.

Thanks to my Brazilian buddy, Otavio (it doesn’t sound right when I say I have a Brazilian), the first thing I learnt this morning when I logged on (05:02), was that there is a new labs version available of my favourite chat client. Labs is Google speak for Beta. All the Google software stays in BETA for ever and ever, amen. So, they needed to find another name for it, so all Google Beta software is actually called Google Labs software. There’s cool stuff available, so check it out.

There are two main differences with the new Google Talk Labs software. Firstly, it now supports tabs, and secondly, it seems to integrate well with Google Calendar. I am currently using 11 calendars to organise my life, so for me this is a welcome addition.

Hop on over to Virtual Africa to see the Cape Peninsula in glorious, faboulous 3D. I live in Cape Town, so I am allowed to say faboulous.

Fab. Go on, click on the link….

Thanks to HugoOU for the great GREAT GREAT video.

I just found a site that use light to generate a levitating waterfall. It blew my mind a little…

http://www.wimp.com/toocool/

www.xkcd.com