Check out the little red button to the right hand side of the page (not the huge big one above, which is just a cracking image, I think, but the one saying 'click here to see bdoherty's profile' or something). Ok- you click on that, and you go to a site called 'Last FM', and there appears a chart of what has been playing through this computer over the last week, and I believe you can hear samples of the songs, or some of them, too.
Doubtless, this will be very embarrassing at some point- it seems like a good reason never to put Meat Loaf or Queen on the computer- but it is also a nice toy, and we love the stats. The more people who do it, the happier and quieter the world will become.
Interestingly, in the overall chart on that Last FM site, The Postal Service's 'Such Great Heights' is the number one listened to song- we're in good company. (The less said about Coldplay being number one listened to band the better).
Not that any of it matters: in fact, there's a book called 'Important Things That Don't Matter', which I think is a good title (although, that said, leaving out the word 'that' to make it 'Important Things Don't Matter' might have made it better), but that doesn't matter either. I ate a falafel sandwich today, which doesn't seem important, but it mattered at the time. I wouldn't have thought that I would like it (the sandwich, that is), but I did, and it seemed fairly healthy, or at least not too unhealthy, and I might have another one tomorrow.
