Sweet, docile old man Rupert Murdoch is having a lovely time on Twitter, keeping his merry band of followers entertained with tales of his daily exploits, including why buying MySpace was one of his Worst Ever Decisions, the silly fool.

In a message on the site he admitted that there was nothing in the purchase that had gone right but at least he'd learnt a few life lessons along the way.

"Many questions and jokes about My Space. Simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons," he wrote, with refreshingly candid honesty.

Expensive isn't even close: he bought MySpace for $580m in 2005 just a year before Facebook launched and within five years was selling the company for a paltry $35m, a staggering loss of $545m.

What Sneak is more interested in, though, is a Tweet that appears to show Murdoch sent a personal message to Twitter by mistake. How else do you explain the cryptic message, "Jack. Tokyo sounds great but be careful of that full moon".

The full moon? Why, is this Jack character a werewolf of some kind? Or is the media mogul perhaps a closet fan of Japanese author Haruki Murakami?

We can only hope this is indeed what happened and that in future a more racy, or indeed, incriminating text is sent to the wrong location.

The Department for Health (DoH) is vaguely planning to probably introduce electronic medical records online for patients at some point in the future. A confusing message? Yes we thought so too.

Although a report in the Guardian on Tuesday said the government will implement a new system of online patient care records by the end of parliament, the DoH was unclear of its plans when V3 asked for more details of the strategy.

Electronic medical records was one recommendation made by the NHS Future Forum last June in a report that also advised the government on a number of other ways to modernise the NHS.

On Tuesday, the DoH said it would accept the advice from the Future Forum, but in a press release the department only outlined its plans to improve the education and training of health care workers, improve integrated care for patients and promote healthy living.

No reference to online electronic records was made.

V3 contacted the DoH to ask how it was planning to implement the online system and when patients could expect to see it in action.

"We support the recommendation," said the spokesman, before adding that he could not comment on whether the DoH has any online electronic record strategy in place, or whether the department was even discussing the issue.

"We can be certain about implementing it as much as we can be certain about anything," he added. Well that's crystal clear then.

Sweden has long been a hotbed for the file-sharing movement. From the early days of the Pirate Bay to the establishment and eventual triumph of the Pirate Party in European Parliament elections, Swedes have been on the forefront of the battle for the free exchange of information.

This week things were taken one step further with the recognition of the first church devoted to copying and sharing information.

Dubbed the "Church of Kopimism," the group has been recognised by the Swedish Kammarkollegiet as an official church. On the official Church of Kopimism site, the group said it had to apply three times before finally gaining recognition.

According to its site, the church considers the act of copying information to be a sacred act for its members.

"For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament," the group said.

"Information holds a value, in itself, and in what it contains and the value multiplies through copying."

A posting to church's Wikipedia entry further suggests that Kopimism considers the "Ctl+C" and "Ctl+V" symbols to be sacred

Kanye West had a rather inspired Twitter session on Wednesday evening, and suggested that it was he, and perhaps some people like him, that could save the planet.

The rapper, who incidentally claims to have not bought a car or jewellery in the last two years, thinks that the world is missing something, and apparently it is an amalgamation of himself, Steve Jobs and, perhaps, Steve or Alexander McQueen.

The world will be improved through the launch of a company called Donda, that West said could change the world and the way that it consumes - oh, and arrange MTV music events.

DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas...

— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012

"I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts, app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist, doctors, scientist, teachers," West explained in a stream of messages that look like they are fuelled by something other than his creative juices.

Donda will be split into 22 divisions that will go around doing exciting things all the time.

We need to take what Michael Jackson felt and Mcqueen and Steve Jobs and we need make things better...

— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012

"We need as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people to be involved... Come get on board... don't just sit there... reach out. We can collectively effect the world trough design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off."

We're pretty sure that was with the release of Apple television or the iPhone 5, but we don't think that Apple would thank anyone else for releasing those.

[Editor's note: Spelling all Kanye's own, we didn't want to restrain the creative genius with our house style]

It is fair to say Rupert Murdoch had a pretty hectic 2011, with his firm involved in the huge phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World and the ongoing Leveson enquiry.

This also saw Murdoch grilled relentlessly by MPs at a Commons Select Committee in which he proclaimed it was the "most humble day of my life", before being hit in the face by a foam pie - by "comedian" Jonnie Marbles, not the MPs.

Now, in a move even the most daring Hollywood scriptwriter wouldn't have tried to pull off, Murdoch has joined that most public of forums, Twitter, in order to share his thoughts and opinions with the world, which mainly involves him praising Fox.

One message reads:

Saw Fox film Descendants.Thank God, one to be proud of. Star Geo Clooney deserves Oscar, maybe film too.

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) December 31, 2011

while another proclaims:

I LOVE the film "we bought a zoo", a great family movie. Very proud of fox team who made this great film.

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 1, 2012

Sneak isn't sure where to begin really: the utterly appalling grammar (perhaps he needs an editor, is Andy Coulson available?), the brazen bias, the willingness of Rups to open himself up to an almighty online backlash, or his chutzpah in joining Twitter when you'd have thought he'd be keen to stay out of the headlines for once.

Then, as if things weren't bizarre enough, his wife Wendi Deng - her of Commons-pie-attacker-hitting-fame - apparently joined up too, and not only started defending Rups (obviously) but also flirting with Ricky Gervais.

However, it sadly became clear this was a hoax account, despite Twitter giving it the blue tick of verification for a short while.

Sneak would like to think it is all some form of April Fool's stunt, but sadly it is most definitely still early January and Rupert Murdoch really has joined Twitter. Happy New Year - 2012 is off to a flier.

Google owns the search market. This is well known and is why the firm releasing information on the most searched for terms is an annual event that provides the best snap-shot into what occupied the world's attention in a given year.

As it turns out it is mainly celebrities, which is not surprising really. Yet Sneak was surprised to discover that in Blighty, the fifth most searched for term on Google was 'Google'.

Aside from the dangers of destroying the internet by Googling Google, is it not a bit odd that so many people are searching for the very thing they are already using?

Sure, there must be some legitimate reasons to Google the firm itself, but Sneak suspects there's something amiss here.

What could well be happening is not-too-smart internet users are searching for Google from the corner search boxes provided on browsers such as Firefox, not realising that it is Google.

What is worse, though, is that the world's most popular sites are the most popular searches too, including Facebook in number one, YouTube in two, the BBC in six and Amazon in seven, which is odd if you think about.

All of these sites have some of the most recognisable URLs on the planet and it is highly likely that most people will have the address stored in their URL search bar on their browsers and so could just go there direct with a few keystrokes.

Or, better yet, use the handy bookmarks tool bar function (best served in Firefox) to create a nifty list of your favourite sites so you don't have to clog up what would be an otherwise interesting list with searches that make the UK look like a nation of morons.

News today that local authorities have managed to lose sensitive data on individuals over 1,000 times in the past three years is serious stuff, and underlines how much information we place in the hands of civil servants tasked with running the country.

The data, uncovered by privacy advocates Big Brother Watch, revealed that most of the incidents councils fessed up to involved the loss of devices such as laptops, mobile phones and USBs, which is not a huge surprise.

However, there were one or two bizarre incidents that caught Sneak's eye and show that for all the legislation and technical measures you can put in place to try and stop data going missing, you can't legislate for every eventuality.

These incidents include a staff member in Kent leaving a diary on top of his car before driving off, causing the diary to go missing, while the same error befell an employee in Gloucestershire who left conference case notes on the roof of his car.

An even better Gloucestershire incident, though, was the case of a van delivery door swinging open causing several bags of files to go missing, although all but one were recovered in the end. The council's action? "Van door fixed".

Sneak's favourite, however, was the report from an authority in Aberdeenshire that it lost sensitive data when a paper file was "blown away in the wind". This led to a verbal warning for the staff member involved and a "review of handling paper outside".

Basically, if it's windy, don't let go of paper, is the thing to remember. It certainly gives a new meaning to the term cloud computing anyway.

Steve Jobs (pictured left) and George Clooney (right).

Sneak's not known for his ability to rank the attractiveness of other males of the species but even he has to admit there's not much resemblance between oh-so-dreamy George Clooney and other man Steve Jobs.

Sure, Jobs was a great guy and Sneak loves using the iPad as a make-shift dinner tray when he can't be bothered to wash up his single, solitary plate, but let's not pretend he was as hot as one of the most attractive men on the planet.

But yes, according to movie gossip from Digital Spy, the former doctor from ER is in line to play Jobs in the forthcoming biopic that will be written by The Social Network scribbler Aaron Sorkin.

The report also suggests that someone named Noah Wyle (also from ER) could play Jobs, and a look over a few pictures of Mr Wyle does suggest he has a far more Jobsian appearance than Clooney.

Wyle actually played Jobs once before in the awfully titled Pirates of Silicon Valley, which given the fact Sneak's never heard of it, can't have been that good, but he's stuck it on the Lovefilm queue anyway.

The real question this all drags up, though, is who would play Sneak in a biography of his life: probably Javier Bardem as seen in No Country for Old Men. Same haircut.