Yesterday I helped Dad set up his new surround sound system. The box says 1,000 watts of sound power. I've seen electric fires with less ouput. I reckon that you probably only get that kind of output for a tiny time interval, but it does seem rather a lot. We put some music on and it sounded rather nice. We are going to try with some nice noisy DVDs next..

Then we watched "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". A compelling little film with a nice take on the way the mind works and the inevitability of fate. Watch it and enjoy, but make sure that you read the back of the box first so that it makes sense....

For me the best bit was seeing that they used an ancient Amstrad Portable PC as the controller for the memory eraser. Very strange.