Incidentally, the second confession I mentioned at the start of today’s blog was to do with the combined forces of technophobia, laziness and being extremely busy. As part of the University’s support for PhD students I was given a brand spanking new Apple laptop, which err… I had no idea how to use. So I continued to use my old pc until it died, then was forced into the wonderful world of Apple. Yes, all the cliches are true, it’s an intuitive and well designed machine which even a fool like me can use. But it still took some time to learn how to drive so the blog got put on hold until I’d worked out the basics.