"It was a 2 hour journey home punctuated by @bytebot twittering a delay at Parliament Train station where 3 hoons who were throwing rubbish at a train that led to police arrests. Which messed up all the other trains going thru The Loop."

Unconvinced at the usefulness of twitter? Check this story out.

You get to see me in the picture as well :)

"Mobile application Shifd from the New York Times allows users to easily share any content, from web feeds, listings and maps to personal notes and data, between a desktop computer and a mobile phone...The prototype records presence through an RFID chip placed inside a mobile phone; when a user removes their phone the data is synced through a web interface."

Nice, but there's nothing there that can't be done without the RFID. The RFID only serves to notify the system where you are. What if you could sync data via bluetooth, transfer bookmarks, sync everything by just being 'in range'?

"In the US mobile phone carriers run closed networks: my Samsung phone will only run on the Verizon network, and if I switch to another carrier, the applications I bought over Verizon's service won't come with me. This set up has big Internet companies up in arms. Last March, for example, Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused the carriers of creating "walled gardens" that kept Internet companies out. The carriers, however, say that they spend billions of dollars on their networks and shouldn't be forced to open them up. "They use my lines for free -- and that's bull. For a Google or a Yahoo! or a Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts!" he said."

While not as bad here, they should still open it up more, and the carriers themselves should embrace the internet more.

"The basic idea around GrandCentral is “one phone number for all your phones, for life.” As we change jobs, homes and cell phones, there are a lot of phone numbers to keep track of, and keeping everyone up to date with your most recent phone numbers is a real cost. If you use GrandCentral you can give out a single phone number. What happens when that person calls that number depends on his/her relationship to you, and what you are doing at the time."

This is pretty cool - you can specify what happens when certain groups of people call your special number, e.g. special voicemail message, ignore caller, send to mobile etc. You're completely reliant on GC though, and it's US-only :(

Very interesting interview with Mitchell Baker, 'Chief Lizard Wrangler' at Mozilla, the Firefox creators. Covers everything from its rise, profits, penetration on mobiles, branding, perspective on the interactive/graphical rich web and nearly everything else.

Well worth checking out - skims over a lot of the technical details, some incorrect facts (Silverlight is not completely proprietary - DLR), a slightly biased interviewer, but a nice read to see where Firefox is going and its intentions.

"The idea of offline web applications is getting an undue amount of attention. Which is bizarre when you look at how availability of connectivity is ever increasing. EVDO cards, city-wide wifis, iPhones, Blackberry’s. There are so many ways to get online these days that the excitement for offline is truly puzzling."

Seriously mate, you have to get out sometimes. Maybe in your little world it is like that, but in reality everywhere else isn't. And I'm not holding my breath for the day Melbourne gets city-wide wifi, or cheap mobile data access...