h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A pattern is emerging. The daily diary goes onto a Psion 5. The diary goes in here.

Chunks of a paper diary, kept initially in a Five Year Diary, then in lever files, but for the most part in hardback volumes over 24 and a half years, are slowly going on line. As yet, there's no order to this, though the most likely approach will be to post a clutch of entries for a particular day going back as many years as I care. For example, I have 17 entries going back over the years for October 16th.

In terms of secrecy, sins of deed or thought, if these find expression they will most likely go into a paper journal for now and be picked over in a decade or so. If I want to be honest then I can't see it going on the MAC, the PC or the Psion.

Having a gap in those old Five Year Diaries was the greatest incentive not to miss a day. 7 or 8 years later it became easy to slip into the discipline of writing in a book. Though not so easy to avoid prattling on ... and on. I soon stuck to an A4 page, every day, year in year out.

I may decide that 1000 words a day is the right target. Or less, 750?