chirpy but technologically outdated bookseller attempts to engage with contemporary electronic superhighway

Today i have been working out how to have a myspace... space. It all looks like jolly fun and I find I am already getting things called "friends". No matter that I didn't spend eight years in scotlands coldest and most violent boarding school with them, or four drunken years in academia; they are counted in with those longstanding soul-mates. Come one come all.

Myspace say I have to insert a photograph [but cant find the slot in the back of the typewriter boom boom] and now find that I really don't look like the svelte debonair model of my daydreams. Yes, chaps, you know the one that starts with Susan Sontag calling to ask for theatrical design tips and ends with Peter O Toole teaching you how to mix a margerita. In fact i look a cheerfully opinionated bookseller who is carrying just a couple of pounds too much, in his early thirties......

Anyway this is all part of a general upgrading of our IT presence as I understand it to be called [in my time it was a slightly disappointing Led Zep album] so that we look more like a professional company. Perhaps the fact that you are reading this means you can scoff; but please dont. Drawing attention to the faults of others is almost as bad as drawing attention to oneself you know.

We look forward to astonishing you in due course

Have a pleasant day

Andrew MishMash