Minor celebrity broadcasting live from the train...

...even 'minor' is a bit strong and it wasn't really broadcasting per se.

Getting on the train last night at Waterloo I received an email from 7th Syndikate's Agent Curtis.  It informed all of us lower-clearance agents that our cover had been blown due to us being splashed all over the London Evening Standard*.  Methinks there was a spy in our midst of, um, spies.

24092008211 - That's a secret code, don't you know?

Damn shame that I didn't bag myself a copy of the paper.  I figured I could pick it up when I got home but nowhere seems to sell it any more.  Google Maps Mobile did prove useful though as I was able to get into it within seconds and get the numbers of all the local supermarkets (which saved me going around to them all to find out they didn't have any!)  Fortunately a friend who was leaving London a little later than me grabbed one.  Phew!

As for broadcasting live, well I Skype videocalled my niece from the train on my Eee PC.  It actually had some battery power after 30 mins use earlier in the day.  Whoa.  My mobile broadband kept cutting out though.  C'mon 3, sort your coverage out along the London commuter lines - if you were the only network that gave rock solid signal on these routes you'd have a helluva lot of folk switching to you.  Your signal is also patchy near my local 3Store and non-existant in Nando's (which is a short walk away from said 3Store).

Oh and the looks on the other commuters faces as I'm doing a videocall whilst talking about my previous night's espionage was totally Mastercard!

*until later today it will be the site's Picture of the Day