I'm packing for my trip to Seattle, and I just put two web cams into my bag? Why two, well one works with video4linux v1 applications (and isn't a very good web cam), and the other one is the fancy

read from his latest book. I was accompanied by Amy, Miss Fee, and the Sock Victim, and we all had an awesome time. Sedaris was oddly boyish for a 50-year-old, I thought, but his stories had a packed-out concert hall

HSBC has cut its fixed rate mortgages, but there's still no relief for borrowers on variable rates.

BHP Billiton has set an Australian corporate record after the mining giant delivered its highest ever profit.

A $3 MILLION upgrade to the Caltex terminal in Brisbane will enable more service stations to offer ethanol blended fuel, the company says.

WORLD oil prices rose today, boosted by the risks a tropical storm posed to oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico while the market remained preoccupied about slowing economic growth, dealers said.

TELSTRA'S head of public policy and communications Phil Burgess is leaving the company and will return to the US, due to illness in his family.

A VIDEO store which paid six students with free rental videos and DVDs has back-paid workers after a Workplace Ombudsman investigation.

A 24TH person was arrested and charged today over recent raids connected to the world's largest ecstasy seizure.

A MAN who was driving a ute in which two friends were killed when it crashed in Victoria while they were out rabbit hunting has had his conviction quashed.

THEIR homes and cars are more secure, but when they're out in the street, Victorians are more likely to be attacked.

THE former manager of a hit 1980s band who had sex with an underage girl he met on the internet has been jailed in Victoria for four years.

DOBBING in hoon drivers with footage taken on mobile phones would only encourage dangerous vigilantism and could cause prosecution headaches, Victoria's top cop says.

THE truck driver involved in the 2007 Victorian Kerang rail disaster that claimed 11 lives has been ordered to stand trial.

BABCOCK & Brown Power (BBP) has declined to say whether expressions of interest in its business include a possible full takeover offer after it unveiled today $451 million in writedowns.

THE nation's banks are doing better than the broader market in the three months to September but some say they are still overvalued.

BHP Billiton says it has positioned itself to sell uranium into China after the Olympic Dam mine expansion in South Australia.

SUPERMARKET giant Woolworths is entering the financial services sector by offering its customers a new credit card.

THE family of alleged Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai says a recommendation to extradite their father to Hungary may be challenged all the way back to the Australian High Court.

WEST Australian Premier Alan Carpenter admits he's seen as arrogant and it's a problem he needs to work on as his government seeks re-election.