You know the old adage ‘If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.’? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better example of that than The Eyeborg Project. Film-maker Rob Spense, lost his eye in a childhood accident but with the help of a prosthetic eye which is also a camera he will be able to take his art to a whole new level.

What a strange and wonderful development – as long as it is not eventually put to sinister use by those who are already watching us a little too closely. Kind of puts a whole new spin on Big Brother is Watching You, doesn’t it?

January 2009 was a good month for flights to Tenerife and Lanzarote according to Monarch Airlines who report an overall 8.42% increase on bums on seats with these destinations in the top two spots over January 2008.

I wonder was that as Monarch say simply because of the cold snap or because worries about the gathering clouds of recession made some people choose shorter hauls than they would have otherwise?