+ Why is it that, when I am with my wife at a cafe or pub and she pays for something, the waiter inevitably gives the change to me? (Not that I'm complaining ...)
+ Why do we take home the small packs of soap and bottles of shampoo from motels and hotels? The only reason I can think of is so we can have a small amount of the product to use while we're away from home. But then we'd most likely be in another motel or hotel, where they provide enough soap and shampoo for us to use - and take home!

Not all mobile phone owners are equal - at least not in the eyes of Nova 106.9, it would seem. The station's website lists the following competition rule:

4.4.3 SMS entry is available via compatible mobile phones which are connected to Telstra, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Optus mobile digital network and participating service providers. Entry is not currently available to those whose mobile phones are connected to 3, Orange mobile post-paid, Orange mobile pre-paid Optus MobilSat and Optus CDMA.

I wasn't watching, but I gather there's been an upset on Australian Idol tonight. Ijust got this SMS:

Idol is f----d, how dare bobby flynn go. I've turned off.

I guess we'll be reading and hearing more tomorrow.

"Hi guys, I'd like you to meet my new best friend - American actor Bill Murray." Murray, who played a middle-aged actor who befriended a young woman in Tokyo in the film Lost in Translation, apparently accompanied a young Norwegian woman to a student party at a flat in the Scottish town of St Andrews. He even drank vodka from a coffee cup and helped do the dishes! The story is here and here (in a Japanese paper). Although there are pictures, I would treat this with just a little caution. There were rumours a little while ago that Murray was in Australia and it just wasn't true.