  Such has been my state of distraction that a blogworthy thought that occured to me a full ten days ago hasn't yet made it into the blog. It was only because it cropped up in conversation in the pub last night that I'm recalling it now: has anyone noticed how tech shops are changing their look? It struck me, as I say, about ten days ago when I ventured into Tottenham Court Road to buy a hard disk.
As the kit becomes smaller, computer shops are starting to resemble jewellers' stores, as the merchandise gets smaller, ever more bijou : only the secondhand stores have the ranks of beige boxes that used to fill the storefronts of TCR... I wonder if the stores themselves will eventually shrink around the wares they sell, or if the space will be more taken up with the glossy lifestyle projections that come with the selling of consumer electronics... 
