Oh alright... I went along to SWIM at the Sanctuary Cafe. It was an open mic thing, and I was only really there to see James spit out one of his filthy word bursts - The Terrible Secret of the Librarians, which he delivered well. The thought of librarians locking themselves into underground cells and perforating their own eardrums tickled me. Particularly when combined with mental images of librarians I have known and loved.

But I was pleasantly shocked to find myself enjoying quite a lot of the other stuff I heard too: whether it be a man who seems to have spent 30 years narrating Lord of the Rings to himself in a darkened room, the guy who brought up "the conflated ugliness of John Major and Chris Evans - with John Major on top", or the bloke who referred to Christ as a failure who "couldn't even die properly", I heard a lot of things which supplemented my Inner Grin. So I suspect I'll be going back at some point, if only to hear a proper clown story.

Ah well. Next stop pilates classes and a child called Tarquin...

Non photography day: "...an effort on my part to revive the moment by putting down the camera. It is a day to think about how life exists, in essence and not appearance and to understand the inadequacy of the photograph in describing this essence, to bring awareness of the perils of living through the view finder or the display screen…"

Guilty as charged.

No critical cocktail will force operators over to IP: ""There's no 'critical cocktail' of applications," he claimed. No one specific application like IM (Instant Messaging) or location based service was going to swing the balance. However, operators will eventually work out that if they want to launch loads of new services, they'll have to move to IMS."

Reminds me of a lot of the talk we were hearing a few years back about mobile in general: how there wasn't one single universal "killer app", but consumers would pick and choose the ones they wanted.

Mobile Web: the dark horse of mobile data services?: "At events like 3GSM and CTIA, the mobile community talks a lot about "mobile content" these days. But Web access is almost completely absent in these discussions. Mobile content means music downloads, multimedia messaging and, of course, mobile TV - not Web access. But the market seems to tell a different story - over the last six months, good news on mobile Web use has been pouring in"

Completely agree. All that stuff you read about WAP being an initial failure, and then coming back into fashion recently? It's rubbish. WAP traffic has built steadily from day 1, since it was launched into the UK (look at this graph from the Mobile Data Association). There's been no bust/boom cycle at all.

Hiding The Mobile Internet at MobHappy: "Second, operators should focus on adding value to users’ internet experiences by recognizing that mobile browsing is different than browsing from a computer and add to (not replace) the open access with more customized services and sites for users that want them. It should be an additive strategy that takes full browsing capability as a starting point, then builds on top of it, not a plan that throws the Internet that people know and love out the window, then opens up tiny holes to let only particular content through."

Sounds very sensible to me. Context of use is different for mobile, but there's a wealth of stuff out there already which folks are used to consuming through their mobiles. It seems reasonable to supplement this (typically free-to-access) information with billed, mobile-specific services.