Random neural activity

Yesterday I attended the forumWeb.mobi event in Rome.

Let’s say that getting there has been difficult. Wednesday evening our train from Florence to Rome stopped just outside Florence’s main station, and wouldn’t move again. It took one hour and a half to bring us back into that very same station (we should have been in Rome by then!) and to be boarded on a second train. We made it to Rome just 135 minutes late. Thanks, Trenitalia (main Italian railway company).

In Rome we found an unannounced, totally wild strike involving all taxi drivers. Thanks, who-cares-about-the-rules taxi drivers, hope you get what you truly deserve (no, I’m not thinking about higher fares). Somehow we made it to our hotel just before midnight, and the following morning we managed to get to the meeting venue.

Back to the event, the topic being discussed was bringing “the Internet” to mobile devices. I have both professional and personal interests in this, and although I expected a bit more of technical discussion I enjoyed the event.

It has also been the occasion for meeting a few old friends that work in the field, like Luca and Andrea. Although they definitely moved on in their carriers I still call them “the WURFL guys” and here you can see them in a frantic “handset discovery” session