The lovely Katy just tagged me on a wee 'view from the trenches' thing... but it's more like 'news from the front', as I'm working at home in Brighton today...
...as you'll remember from this post, I'm a big believer in working wherever you need to, not in one centralised locale...
Anyway, let's spend ten minutes on it - what's the view like from here?
Well, as ever I'm on the delightful little Toshiba R500 Portege, which after nearly two years of day-in-day-out service has developed it's first fault... the DVD drive has stopped working. Grrr. Not annoying enough a fault to hand it over to a repair shop for days, but annoying if you want to rip any CDs or owt.
Is two years a good lifespan for a faultless laptop? Thoughts please...
Anyway, onwards...
...round to the left we have the sofa, which hides some of the old school meadja (CDs, Books, Graphic novels etc) that are increasing more ornamental rather than functional. That's Helen's knitting on the sofa.
Knitting really has come back in a big way; I kind of think it fits with the whole folk music / allotments / coffee shop conversation thing; the more technology creeps into our lives, the more people feel the need to draw on the things that previous generations did in order to make them feel, well, part of the real world.
Then, a decidely old school phone...
...which I've been using to dial in to various conference calls. I wonder when (if ever) phone manufacturers will concentrate on making a mobile phone that offers a quality and consistency of phone call that will actually rival a landline?
And yes, I'm sitting on the floor, that's why the phone is down there. I like sitting on the floor, always have, don't know why.
Finally, the view behind is out the window, overlooking Montpelier Crescent...
...it's not very sunny. Probably because the Great Escape is on this weekend, and the rain god loves a sodden Indie crowd...
So, let's pass on 'View From The Trenches'... Chris, Matt, Dan, Ted, Mark... take it away...
