To cut a long story short, it took me 30 minutes yesterday to establish that I can retrieve an accidentally deleted voicemail message from my mobile phone - but only if I don't hang up on the original call in which I deleted the message. Unfortunately, I had to hang-up the original call to ring Customer Care for assistance to find this out.(And I had to make two calls to Customer Care, because the first operator didn't answer my question correctly.)

The Brisbane International Film Festival began last night with the likeable A Prairie Home Companion. Among BIFF's hundreds of offerings is the controversial 2:37, whose director, Murali K Thalluri, was there last night.