Well blow me down. What a week.

On Tuesday our public offer closed. As regular readers will know, we were aiming to raise just over half a million pounds to fund the rapid expansion of The Friday Project.

To be honest, before the round kicked off, we were shitting ourselves. What if noone invested? What if we didn’t reach the minimum investment level (just over £200k) and had to send all the cheques back? But turns out we needn’t have worried – in the end the demand for shares was so high we had to (very reluctantly) refuse almost 10% of applications. Crikey.

So congratulations to the new mini-army of Friday Project Media Plc shareholders – we hope to make you incredibly happy, and not entirely un-wealthy in the coming years. Look out for your share certificates and the first issue of our investor newsletter in the next week or so.

Huzzah!

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To celebrate the close of the round, I decided to buy myself a new MacBook Pro. My first ever Mac. As a dyed in the wool PC user this was a big step for me – not least, to be honest, because I have always thought of Macs as toys and because almost every Mac user I’ve ever come across has sounded like a sanctimonious prig when they describe how a piece of white plastic had changed their life and that they’d never go back to a PC. The same kind of priggishness one tends to witness at a coffee morning of new parents.

Parents of toys with only one mouse button and stupid cutesy icons.

And so it is that I’m ashamed to report that my new toy is beautiful. Everything – literally everything – about it kicks my PC’s sorry ass. It’s got a remote control for crying out loud. And when it detects that I (or rather my Bluetooth phone) has left the office to get a coffee, it automatically pauses iTunes and locks itself to foil thieves. Suck on that Gates, you loser.

Right – time to go home for some beans on toast. I’ve spent an evening learning everything there is to know about social networking, tagging and – get this – ‘folksonomy’. What a Friday night! But just wait ’til you see the project that Pond and I are working on.

Ooh yes. To the future…