If you're into your Human-Centred Technology - and we most certainly are - then this event, which Future Platforms are sponsoring this year, might be of interest: "This year we hope to take a critical look at whether the human-centred design approach caters for both collaborative and individualized settings and how it enriches communication, cooperation, creativity and learning while interacting with digital technology."

The Top Ten Lies of Engineers.

We'll put that one into the box marked "good weekends", I think.

Via Cori: "And hundreds of thousands of little wood-and-rubber Things with nickel bells whirring, may be seen ordering around people–who pay them for it–in any city of our modern world.

Now and then one comes on a man who keeps a telephone, who is a gentleman with it, and who keeps it in its place, but not often."

mTLD clarifies .mobi doubts: "However, the whole .mobi concept was attacked by Anil Malhotra, vp for marketing and alliances with Bango. He pointed out that there are now more browsers loaded onto mobile phones than there are browsers on PCs. So why was it necessary to pick out the mobile sector as 'different' from the rest of the Net?"

I don't follow this at all. Mobile is different from the rest of the net primarily because of the context of use and the fragmentation of devices used to access it.