8/8/01 - 8.34pm What the hell is this thing in my computer room? My comp is situated in my old bedroom, and when I sit cross-legged like I am now I can absentmindedly swing a strange hanging wood thing hanging from the lower shelf of the bookcase. It's been there for as long as I can remember, but I never really considered it before. It's completely useless. It serves no purpose. It's kind of like one of those unfoldable end pieces that they have on tables. You know, the bits you unfold when you need that extra bit of space on the table. But this doesn't have any struts to keep it horizontal. It just hangs down. Maybe at some stage, before I was born, it had struts so that it could be used as a desk of some sort. But not now. Now it's just a trifle. A play thing for my foot.