To be honest I could go for one, if I had some money to throw around. It is cute, but there are alternatives. I just saw this at Cheeplinux. I don't know anything about the company, but for the approximate price of the Mini you can get something with a DVD re-writer, wireless keyboard and mouse, a much bigger disk and a card reader. It's not as fast, but it's probably fast enough for non-gaming use. I'd be interested to know how quiet it is. That's becoming one of my priorities for any future computers. My old PC is making a real racket here.

When I was living in Germany I kept a diary that I can go back to and cringe over. I keep thinking I should start it again, but of course I can't be satisfied with writing in a book these days.

I tried a diary application on the Palm, but it was awkward to use and the Palm is not great for entering lots of text.

Recently I thought that I could do something in email. I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer and email is convenient. My thought is that I would mail myself, possibly using a dedicated account. Entries would be automatically date sorted. I could even encrypt to prevent anyone else getting at my secret thoughts.

An extension of this would be to then extract the emails and convert them to some easily searchable format.

This is a diary for private thoughts. Anything public can go on here or Multiply.

Strange coincidence on the radio coming home last night. I got in the car and Classic FM was on playing Verdi's Anvil Chorus in it's traditional form. Tuned over the Radio 4 and listened to the amusing The Consultants, then flicked around for something else. A show was just starting on Radio 2 and kicked off with.... the Anvil Chorus, but this time as performed by Glenn Miller. Slightly different style.

A couple of times in the past I would be flicking around the channels in the morning and find the same song playing on both Virgin and Xfm.