It’s friday morning and I find myself alone again in the house and considering the purchase of a digital dictaphone. If I’m being honest with myself I’m not sure what need I have for a digital dictaphone, beyond the fact that it’s gadgetry and I want it. As a younger me I was proud to consider myself something of a Luddite. I stuck with vinyl and tapes when the CD revolution happened. I was one of the last people to give up the VHS ghost and buy a dvd player. Mobile phones and MP3 players were an absolute mystery to me for the longest time. But now, a little older and I have developed what can only be described as a fetish for all forms of electrical goods, I can’t resist. We have computers and laptops, MP3 players and phones that play MP3’s, we have DVD recorders and camcorders and digital cameras and phones that take pictures, and a freeview box. Yet here I sit, all alone, flicking through the Argus (forced edit by awardspace.com) catalogue and the pages of Ama don (yet another awardspace.com restricted word) comparing prices on a digital dictaphone that I don’t need. The insanity of it is I have a phone that will voice record, I have a microphone that’ll attach to any of the four computers in the house and record digitally, for pitys sake man I even have a dictaphone!!! Yet still I browse… I need help.

Lets see how long this post stays up shall we.

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