What鈥檚 your favourite website? Cyclingnews.com, to keep in touch with worldwide cycle racing and the BBC iPlayer

What have you recently bought online? Books 鈥� I really loved The Time Traveller's Wife 鈥� and I also just bought a big, expensive Bob Dylan compilation.

Do you network online? I much prefer to interface eyeball to eyeball!

What鈥檚 in your digital holster? Dell laptop, Nokia mobile phone. I also have an iPod (and iPhone, but have been too busy to upload anything of use).

Where shall we play? Computer games are not for me, though my company has worked on some top games, such as iRacing based on our scanning of Silverstone Circuit and race cars.

Favourite tune? Green Onions (by Booker T and the MGs). Jools Holland and his eclectic mix appeals to me also. I even like Razorlight!

Postscript

Simon Barnes is chief executive of geomatic surveying company Plowman Craven