I don't know about my readers, but I spend a good 10 hours a day on my computer, and a good part of the balance on my Crackberry. I posit that the social web evolved as a result of our need for human interaction combined with our work keeping us tied to our computers. We can't interact physically as much as we would like to, so we find outlets online to live them digitally. And yet, by living "digitally," at least as far as I'm concerned, I feel that I've made so many more connections with people, had so many more interactions, than would ever be possible without the social web. The web is becoming more human. Humans are becoming more digital.

So, I ran out of tonic water tonight mid-way through my second vodka tonic. Thus, the Bloktonik was born. It's 1/3 Vodka, 1/3 Tonic Water and 1/3 Sprite, with a teaspoon of lime juice. Mmmmm Blok-y. It's based on the popular Robotube Games mobile game. To really make it authentically, you have to use those little plastic colored ice cubes. You can get them pretty cheap from Crate & Barrel

I hear Robotube is going to release a PC version of Bloktonik any day now.

Anyone involved in designing and building websites back in the early 90's remembers how difficult it was to get your site working across browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. While this is still a challenge today, it's not nearly as bad as it was. Now, imagine this problem compounded times 1,000. This is where we are with the mobile internet. There are a couple of ways of detecting what's referred to as the User Agent, which is the string that the devices browser creates to let us know things like the make and model of the handset, the screen size, the browser, etc. Both are clunky, unreliable and time-consuming to implement.