Trying to keep up with high-tech change

I suppose you reach a certain age when you don't want to be seen as being as outmoded.

I remember at a former newspaper where I worked in London, there was a sectioned off area of the office for journalists, whose glories were perhaps more in the past than the present, that was referred to by everyone - apart from its inhabitants - as Jurassic Park.

Feeling too much like I was following in the wake of these Jurassics (a number of them now late lamented), I set off recently to buy a DVD player in Beijing.