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aidan_skinner had a party. It was ace. There was tea, and carrots. And lots of cool people.

I drove lots in not-quite-snow.

I eyed up toys in Tesco. Gave up on trying to shop in the Fort (couldn't park the bus anywhere, toyed with the idea of parking on the utterly-needless bit of paving bang in the middle of one lot, then decided I'd hate myself too much and left when someone cut in front to nick a space and I considered just pushing their car back out of said space).

Aidan has an Eee. They're smaller, lighter, and more robust than I thought. Less "volume" than my Ubiquio. Also produces a decent amount of volume for such a small and inexpensive device; would make a nice "taking notes and listening to internet radio" device. I feel I should pursue a review unit from RM or Asus.

Things sold. Not everything sold; I still have a Alpha Syntauri. People baffle me. £62 bids? It's a sodding 28 year old wavetable synth of fairly significant historical (for a certain value of significant and history) interest and quite a fun device in its own right. Yet the D50's patch card got £34, when a D-50 only got £87 the other day.

And I've had two £50 offers on my VZ-10M - priced at £125 or "Best Offer", and including a brand new backlight and an RC-100 ROM card which are worth about £50 on their own. I cleaned it VERY thoroughly since the photos emphasised all the dust, and put it back in the rack, then took a couple more pictures of it. If it's really only worth £50, then I'm not going to sell it! Unlike keyboards or guitars, it takes up space in a rack which occupies the same area regardless of content - it can have 14U or 4U of kit in it, it doesn't get any smaller!

Played with Nikon D3; I'll probably take it down to Birmingham next week. It's rather lovely at first glance, though I need VR lenses.

*eyes Ubiquio, wonders if 4GB (or 8GB) would be sufficient, if the Eee's keyboard and 'robust' feel would adequately compensate for the loss of a 2.5" HD mechanism*