The Italian version of Wired magazine is behind the nomination of 'The Internet' for the Nobel Peace prize for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus".

Are you ready to sit in your lounge watching the World Cup Soccer with the players (and the ball) swirling around your head?

Everyone has the right to access information from whatever public source requested without restriction. In the current world this will mean it is a fundamental Human Right to have unfettered internet access.

My first real digital 'gadget' - a camera - was much loved, much enjoyed, but quickly obsolete.

Skype, or at least a Skype-type application, was predicted 100 years ago.

The one 'digital item' I still really want is a large flat screen TV: probably one of the new HD LED screens. I only watch probably 5 hours of TV a week (the news, occasionally sports, and even less frequently films) but the concept appeals to me.

In my day, oh dear - not again!, the idea was to become a pop star or a film star.

Now at 1 million dollars a copy!

Do you 'Spit in the Ocean'? Or maybe you prefer a 'Wild Widow', or even 'Rusty Bedsprings'?

These are names of some of the variations of poker played in saloons, pubs or casinos around the world. Admittedly none of these are very big or popular. THE game of the moment, the one that is generally on TV (the All-Africa Poker Tournament) is Texas Hold'em.

So there it was - in the Barrow Court of the V&A Waterfront - the small wooden cell holding Bob Skinstad captive.

But the cause is good: the bobsforgood foundation was set up by Bob Skinstad to help with a relatively small physical item, but a relatively large item of pride, a pair of shoes for all those children in South Africa whose family cannot afford them. And there are over seven million of them: many who have to walk to school and back, barefoot.