My poor wife. She came along to the geek dinner last dinner. She discovered I'm not alone in my obsession with electronic toys. Rachel had her Portable Media Player, complete with dodgy video, then Keni and Frank Shaw our guest from Waggener Edstrom produced the tablet PCs. Keni's Toshiba was sexy enough, but Frank had a little slim light lovely little thing, which I think was an Electrovaya Scribbler. Hard to choose really, Frank's had a decent battery life but Keni's had a decent keyboard. We even had a proper astrophysicist, Andrew (whose blog also mentioned Galaxie 500, damned if I can find their CDs in my pile now, and MSN Music doesn't have them available for download).

The wife couldn't understand what I would do with a tablet PC, or a portable media player. I tried to explain to her that wasn't the point, but I think finally asking "Well, what would you do with a new pair of shoes?" explained it in girl-speak.