At the weekend I saw the coolest damn piece of graffiti ever! It was on a lamp-post near where I work in Derby.

Derby graffiti artists are lazy bums, with the obvious exception of the guy who went and made himself an autobot stencil. I wonder if decepticon stencils will start cropping up too. That would be a nice touch.

On an unrelated note, what’s so special about blackberries and email? The 2-letter-per-key QWERTY layout on the newer models has me intrigued, not to mention the generous colour screens, but for email as far as I can tell they just connect to POP and IMAP over GPRS (yes, I realise they can connect to your hotmail too, but who uses hotmail any more?). Last I checked any series 60 phone can do that, not to mention all Sony Ericsson’s P-series handsets and some Motorola phone’s I’ve played with (the RAZR does it very well). The real problem is getting your mobile operator to play nice and let you use your GPRS for something other than WAP.

Speaking of which, GPRS pricing is a complete fucking con. I can’t be bothered to look at other mobile providers, but O2 charge £1 per Mb or £15 a month for 5Mb. It’s still cheaper than SMS (a text message can’t be more than 200bytes, and it costs 5p!) but a complete rip-off nonetheless. Maybe if £15 got you unlimited use…