He doesn't actually specify whether he means this one or this one.

But either way: welcome to 2005, Dave!

Viewers! The beloved Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is coming to Bath this [EDIT: Friday] for "an open question and answer session" with the electorate.

As a Lib Dem voter for the past 20 years, I feel I ought to pop along and hear his views on the topics of the day. What should I ask him?

Come on. It must have been one of you, or someone you know, and it's time to own up. Because until we deal with this serious issue and reach some sort of closure, Jobs is going to keep taking it out on the rest of us.

There's simply no other remotely plausible explanation for the staggering hostility – no, make that absolute naked loathing - with which Apple continues to treat the hundreds of millions of customers who've made it so rich.

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I had a bizarre consumer experience today, viewers. My four-month-old 64GB iPod Touch decided yesterday to commit suicide for no particular reason – it crashed mid-browse in Safari and then locked up on the Apple-logo screen. I tried all the normal and emergency restore methods without success – iTunes wouldn't even acknowledge its existence.

Then things got interesting. But if you're pushed for time, the moral of the following story is never buy anything from Currys, and never believe the government.

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So, WoSblog has an iPhone 4 now. Complex equations of justification had been agonised over at length, and eventually I managed to arrive at a view whereby I could construct a reasonably rational case for buying the SIM-free 32GB model at a horrendous £599, on the basis that I could recoup at least half the money straight away by selling stuff it replaced – old phone, HD video camera, the smaller of my iPod Touches etc.

The first thing the iPhone 4 appears to do is make the iPad completely obsolete, but more on that in a bit.

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Because when you're illustrating a point, you haven't got the whole story until you've got the "after" as well as the "before".

(If you haven't worked it out, the little green $ sign is "price go down" and the little red $ sign is "price go up"…)

Also incorporating: The Story So Far.

Turns out that this one just keeps on running.

Today's thrilling developments include WoSblog's new best friend Olin Coles, Executive Editor of "independent" "reviews" site Benchmark Reviews, being exposed for some fraudulent DMCA claims and for yet more instances of lying to to his innocent, trusting readership. Read on!

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WoSblog apologises for any inconvenience caused to would-be viewers this afternoon, when for several hours visitors to the site were confronted with the image below.

The blog's suspension for much of yesterday was the result of yet another desperate attempt by Olin Coles, the in-no-way brainless and cowardly owner of widely discredited "review" site Benchmark Reviews, to suppress the evidence of his site's not-at-all dishonest practices.

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Ooh, things just got even more interesting. Viewers following the mysterious tale of Benchmark Reviews and where their fully independent reviews come from will recall that WoSblog's shadowy agents tracked down the text of their glowing review of a $1200 office chair to the website of an online retailer called Smart Furniture. When asked, Smart Furniture asserted that the text was their own original work.

Since then, further developments have transpired. Read on!

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WoSblog is internationally renowned for its psychiatric expertise, so I wasn't surprised yesterday when a viewer of the WoS Forum asked me, quite out of the blue, to assess their mental stability.

"I want to know if I'm going barmy", wrote the clearly-distressed reader, whose cause for doubting his very sanity was – of all things – a review of an incredibly expensive office chair.

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At least, it's statistically probable that you do. The majority  – 53% – of votes cast by the British electorate last Thursday were worthless, because they were cast for candidates who didn't win, and are therefore simply thrown in the bin by the First Past The Post electoral system.

So if you were one of the thousands of people locked out of polling stations across the country on Thursday night, don't fret too much. Your vote would probably have been completely ignored anyway.

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All my friends seem to be doing this at the moment, so I figured I'd join in.

And also because people rarely ask me interesting questions. Have a go.

WoSblog would like to take this opportunity to admiringly offer its warmest congratulations to Christoph Waltz, who was this week quite rightly rewarded with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of his superb portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's excellent WW2 knockabout Inglourious Basterds.

But what's going on here?

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We all remember Mr Do!, right? The smiley-faced star of a series of rather good arcade games by Universal (and a rubbish update on the Neo Geo) is one of the icons of early videogaming. But did you ever wonder why a clown was digging underground for cherries? After more than 20 years of tireless investigation, WoSblog has finally uncovered THE TRUTH.

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