I did it because I wanted to schedule in advance some of the things that Anthea and I don't get round to doing often enough— going to the cinema, the theatre, galleries and so on.

[4] In addition, the diary covers Eno's involvement with the non-profit War Child which has helped children affected by the Bosnian War, as well as his correspondence with pen pal Stewart Brand.

[5] The diary covers the period of Eno's life during which he used SSEYO's Koan Pro software to create generative music, work which led to the 1996 publication of his title Generative Music 1 with SSEYO Koan Software.

The appendices, which are delineated by pink paper in the original book, cover a number of different topics with some of the writing dating as far back as 1978.

His publicist, Michelle Ferguson, who worked with him throughout the year suffered a burst appendix by the end of his busy year at the Pavarotti War Child Concert event in Modena with U2.