Guardian Unlimited | Online | How to save your life

Very good article in the (excellent) Guardian Online section about the extent to which technology is enabling people to record everything they encounter in their daily lives. The diary as it exists in the modern world, which is something of an extension of the blogging concept: 50 years ago you might have kept a paper based diary, in the last decade, you might have captured your life in a blog like this one, or perhaps published to a static website to achieve much the same, in the future, increasingly, everything you do is recorded in a digital form, and if it isn't you can choose to make it so with a device that you'll probably have in your pocket.

The extent to which you'll want to make this public / restricted to friends and family / private becomes a significant decision, and software is likely to make this a critical part of the decision to publish. Seems to me that everyone will grab the chance to record everything they encounter as it become trivial to do so, and this won't be about what I record, but who I publish it to. Whatever....exciting times..... The Warhol 15 minutes becomes irrelevant as everyone grabs a lifetime in a morass of published lifetimes.....

Still not smoking (!) after 19 days, not a puff. So I have rewarded myself by spending three times what I would have spent on fags on underpants, shirts, TFT monitors and digital cameras. Something of an incentive to remain non-smoking, I have to remain fag free for another 5 weeks to fund all this stuff. But that's not, frankly, a bad thing.

Spent the afternoon at my sisters, as she hosted a 2nd birthday party for all the toddlers borne by the mothers that she shared an antenatal swimming class with. Not a bad do really, another of those that leaves you recognising how much your understanding of the world has changed for having a child....hundreds of toddlers charging around pursued by concerned parents, grins on the faces of all the Mums and Dads. I'd have found this a very non-grinning event before Abby...