So it did dawn on me on Monday how good my job is. There I was sitting in the Aberdeen Music Hall surrounded by only a handful of other people watching Amy Macdonald sound check. But not just for a couple of minutes, or a few songs, but for a whole 45 minutes.

I, along with my colleague from Original 106 David Heane (who was conducting the interview) managed to witness a perfomance of Amy covering Somebody Told Me by the Killers, a song she didn’t even perform at the gig.

Here’s the interview that went out on Original 106. Amy was genuinely such a nice person.

And one of my favourite songs of the whole gig, a brand new song I’d never heard before. The quality isn’t great, but I found it on YouTube.

So I bought a new laptop today. It took all of one day to convince myself that a new laptop was needed.

The old one was falling apart. It would randomly switch itself off every time I moved it. The screen was beginning to give way. It was slow. It was heavy. And It was a nightmare to cart to college and work.

My new laptop solves all that. Although now I can’t afford to eat.

I’m slowly mastering Vista, and slowly getting all my music, photos and various documents over to the new machine. But all of that is irrelevant.

What is relevant is the finger print scanner on the laptop. The idea, I set it up with my finger print and then I only ever need to sign in to any sites I use with my password once, after that my finger print can do the job.

In reality, doesn’t work too well. It works, but it sometimes takes a few goes and it’s just easier to type my password in.

Although it was nice of the computer to inform me that I should set it up with at least a couple of different fingers just in case I ever lost some in an accident. I think if I lost any of my fingers in an accident, logging in to Bebo would be the least of my worries.

David