Starting up Bloggin' (a little late I guess)

Well, here I am starting out a new life in a world of Blogs. Or maybe.

Anyway - what prompted me to start this was actually several things; I read the article in BusinessWeek about blogging (not that I didn't know the phenomenon) and got curious. And I've had some thoughts lately that somehow relates to my field of expertise that I wanted to share. I'm a user experience professional.

I'm moving to a new house in a couple of months and I'm seriously considering dumping the old stereo in favor of something a bit more sleek (i.e. should take up no room what so ever, be stylistic to look at, and take me into, well not exactly the next century, but at least the age of Internet). During my research I've come up with several alternatives.

• My first choice was the Beocenter 2 from Bang & Olufsen which is really cool looking, but will set me back the approximate cost of a second car (oh! and it's also not exactly state-of-the-art in terms of Internet-readiness).
• Next on my list were the Tivoli 2 designed by Kloss - advantages being that it would go into my bookshelves and be fairly un-obtrusive AND could be used with my computer (i.e. it has a mini-jack in the back ;-)). I still wasn't really happy as I wanted some more computer into this (using it for radio and storing music) - BUT I don't want a Computer in my living room.
• So I came up with a (brilliant?) idea - I'll get me a Mac Mini, an LCD TV/Monitor, a pair of decent computer speakers and a wireless keyboard/mouse for the Mac. The mac will go into the bookshelf, the TV will double as computer monitor. Neat and clean.

Now - and here comes the user experience part - through all of options I've been, worried is perhaps too strong a word, but then, anxious that I would be able to put all the parts together and make them work. I've never ever had that kind of anxiety before - used to be it was a challenge. Is this because I'm getting old? Is it because I'm going into unchartered territory here? Or is it because I'm suddenly aware of it (from a professional point of view) and never have been before even though it was there the last time I bought some stereo?

Anyway - I'll let you know how it turns out. I have a feeling that my next post will be about a Danes user experiences with USA.