I’m trying to use a Pocket PC blog writer app this morning. I have a QTek 9100 phone with a slide-out keyboard, so I thought I could make use of train time by writing blog posts.

The application I’m using is a free one called Diarist2 developed by Kevin Daly in New Zealand. I’ve had a few problems with it so far. Mainly, I lost a post because I had written it before I had my blog settings set up. After entering the settings, my post was gone. Now I’e writing in OneNote Mobile ond copying into Diarist2. It’s actually working very well now. Diarist2 supports images, but I think I need to upgrade my Dasblog engine first.

Diarist2 is a decent tool. Thanks Kevin. His website is http://www.kevdaly.co.nz/

Tomorrow night, the guys from Diggnation will be filming their weekly podcast at the Excel Convention Centre. I started watching the Diggnation podcast about a year ago and it my favourite podcast by far.

If you haven’t seen Diggnation, you should check it out. It is basically two guys drinking beer and discussing the top stories on the Digg.com website. One of the guys is the Digg founder, Kevin Rose. It makes me laugh so much that I can’t watch it on the train for fear of embarassing myself.

The podcast is probably more popular in the States. No one I know here seems to watch it. Maybe I enjoy it so much because of the laid back California jeuvenile humor I remember.

You can find Diggnation at the Revision3 website or in iTunes. I plan on being there to see it tomorrow and am pretty excited.

I’m not really a great fan of graffiti, but you can’t help but admire some of it. In my area growing up, you saw of lot of it. There’s the tame stuff you find in toilet stalls or phone boxes which just seem to be a waste of time.

But some graffiti is truly impressive. I don’t mean impressive in a “Beat Street” sort of artistic way– I mean impressive because you don’t know how someone was able to do it. In San Diego growing up, you would see it on freeway overpasses which must have been very dangerous for whoever carried out the vandalism. Whoever it was, they weren’t thinking small.

For the last month, I’ve seen another impressive bit of graffiti from the train each morning in Reading on my way into London. It’s been there for at least a month. Someone has somehow painted the largest tag I’ve ever seen on the top one of the tallest buildings in the center of Reading. Have a look at the picture.

Like I said, it’s been up there for at least a month (probably longer) and I don’t know how the landlord will be able to paint over it without some pretty expensive painters with mountain climbing equipment.

But, really, how was someone able to do this without being noticed? I have no idea what it means and it isn’t that legible (I think it says “Stenc the CUP”?).

I would complain about it being an eyesore, but the reality is that Coca Cola (or any other big business) would put a billboard up there in a second if they could. If I had to choose, I would prefer it be this daredevil vandal instead.