It might be one of those experiences we have to consign to the past: madly scrambling through the cutlery drawer trying in vain to find a corkscrew and ending up trying to invent some other way to open a bottle of wine. I actually used a corkscrew tonight for the first time in quite a while. A lot of the wine we drink - and not just the cheap stuff - is now in bottles with screw caps.

One expects the commercial media to push its own barrow, but I'm a bit disappointed that this ABC story about the Australian Cinematographer Awards only mentions gongs won by the national broadcaster itself. Where might one go for a full list?

The recent changes at Brisbane's 97.3FM have left Marnie Titheradge without a job, although she has been offered some sort of position with the Australian Radio Network. She is not the first, nor will she be the last, person to be displaced in radio. It reminds of something Jamie Dunn told me years ago when I asked him why he worked so hard and why he was obsessed with money. He said: "I've always worked on the premise that one day I'll be told, 'Don't come Monday'." Dunn's 16-year run on B105 finally came to an end around this time last year.

Fate works in strange ways. The two latest additions to my Celebrity Deaths Archive are Spoony Singh, who created the Hollywood Wax Museum, and Phyllis Kirk, who starred in The House of Wax. They died within a day of each other.

Haven't heard what Brisbane's two new breakfast radio shows sound like? Well, there's audio over at the ie blog.

According to a report in today's paper, there are plans to produce a biofuel from bananas. All very well, except that bananas are currently more expensive than petrol. What next? The caviar-fuelled car?

I heard over the weekend that many Australian schools and childcare centres don't allow the celebration of Halloween. I know it's an American idea - but so was invading Iraq, and we went along with that one.