Liveblogging

I'm at my son's end-of-term violin concert. Wonder if I can blog from the new smartphone w/o using email and a human intermediary?

[Yay, I could! The Samsung for some reason comes with both IE and Opera preinstalled. Though Sb's Moveable Type installation still doesn't work with IE under Windows Mobile 6.0, it does work with Opera.]

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Yeah, he plays the violin and the sax and he sings. I think he's great, but with 200 kids on stage (ages 7-10) the concert was in no way dominated by his own personal greatness.