In our inaugral (and probably only) 'Cool website of the month' award, we would like to bring your attention to www.blackle.com.

It performs exactly the same role as Google yet, apparently, uses less energy. Which is obviously very responsible and socially aware. Unfortunately it doesn't really work. It's a shame the mental energy involved wasn't spent on slightly more practical initiatives - as it is, we're in danger of undermining the whole environmental battle.

Even if it does look cool.

As a journalist, one of the least attractive jobs going is to be the editor of Press Gazette. Imagine it - thousands of hacks dissecting your magazine every week. (That's if they ever pick the thing up, which certainly wasn't the case during Piers Morgan's brief ownership of the title). But I digress.

It was with a certain amount of admiration that we learned that Daniel Quint had been appointed the new finance director of the ICAEW. So, hats off to Mr Quint ...he's certainly not afraid of a challenge.

What next? Lewis Hamilton's chauffeur...?  Sebastian Faulks' ghost writer...?

It used to be said that the most valuable thing was information. Then, in an intro to the Len Deighton spy thriller The Ipcress File, it was said that no, the most valuable thing was 'people with information'.

News breaks that somebody has broken the Harry Potter embargo by photographing every page of the new book with a digital camera - but according to The Times, the person who did so could be identified because the camera's serial number is embedded in all the images that were posted on the internet. The virtually non-erasable 'meta data' could be the culprit's undoing as it's thought that they used a Canon Rebel 350, serial number 560151117. Sales or service records may identify the spoiler (and copyright violator).

So now you know: the most valuable thing isn't information, or people with information, it's 'information about information'.

Two Irishmen, Paddy and Mick, decide to open a pub. But bizarrely, it is a complete disaster. For reasons they simply cannot fathom, they have no customers. The pub is a failure. They are staring financial ruin in the face.

"Mick," says Paddy, with an air of desperation, "I think we should close the pub and open a brothel."

"Don't be ridiculous, Paddy," says Mick. "If we can't sell beer, we'll never sell soup."

A letter to the Sunday Times this week highlighted what could become a growing trend - the growth of climate change being used as, well, a bit of an excuse really.

One frosty-fingered correspendant wrote to the paper to complain about the temperature of the cabins on board a Thomson Holidays flight. When they asked for a blanket, they were told it would cost £4. So, was this an example of cheap airlines earning a few extra bob by surreptiously turning down the air-con?

Not a bit of it, insisted Thomson. It was down to the discretion of stewards to decide whether turning down the air-con was in the interest of all passengers, said a spokesman.

As for charging for blankets? Well, as part of trying to reduce Thomson's carbon footprint, the company decided it would reduce the weight of airlines by removing a large proportion of the blankets. Hence, they would only be made available at a cost...

Just how heavy are Thomson Holidays' blankets?