Yeah, the cool of the new (shock of the new? shock of the old?) has become quite jaded, hasn’t it? Was a time in the early 1990s I thought it was cool to hang out in a coffee shop with a book and a notepad. A few years later, everybody was…

I’ve never had a laptop, pda or cracberry (which I think is a nicer way of spelling); I tend to go to coffee shops to drink coffee and stare at people or daydream, for time away from machines and telephones. To actually be unreachable. Although, of course, I always have a bookbag with me - I guess my security blanket, as laptops seem to be to other people…