Broadband connection is back on -- obviously -- and not only is it back, but it's double the speed of the old place at a whopping 1 Mbps.

House move went more or less by the book. Lots of cuts and bruises from fixing, ripping, carrying etc. LOTS more space.

After much subliminal advertising and plugging by Adam Curry, I succumbed and bought a Philips Senseo coffee maker yesterday. Most excellent if a little 'wiredness' inducing through repeated use.

While I was away I noticed that we appear to have attained a new level of omni-media-utopia where you can watch your own airplane drama unfold live from your seat in said plane while it happens. The signficance of this should not be under-estimated or over-looked.

Insomnia led me to spend the early hours of last Sunday morning (not yesterday) unpacking what seemed like an endless supply of cardboard boxes containing many randomly packed kitchenware items. And I'd forgotten just how long it takes to unwrap a tightly-triple-wrapped wine glass : a mind-numbingly tedious thirty-four seconds from start to finish.

At the same time I also noted that unwrapping your belongings after a house move is like an insane Christmas Groundhog day combo when every mystery item you eagerly unwrap builds to a such climax of anticipation and wonder only to be instantly blasted away, over and over, when you realise that you already had such a gift. Times 300. At the end I felt equal yet conflicting measures of homely satisfaction and a strange sense of intense disappointment.

Picked up one of those cool Belkin Mac Mini hubs today at PC World.

Stuck a vintage rainbow Apple sticker - complete with "apple computer" underneath in that original fat font they used - onto the top of my Mac Mini. Thought long and hard about it because I didn't want to tarnish its cool, understated design, but in actual fact it makes it look even cooler.