A lot of people moan about txt. I know, I'm one. Yet language is open source, and today's smartarse abbreviation is tomorrow's mainstream verbiage. For example, "hello" was rarely said as a greeting before the invention of the telephone, says The Economist:

When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly introduced. And what should one say when picking up the receiver? Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, suggested "Ahoy, ahoy";. But as in many other respects, his ideas lost out to those of Thomas Edison, who preferred "Hello", an expression that was rarely used before the telephone but is now ubiquitous.

The Economist reveals the above as part of segue into how a number of airlines are now experimenting with cellphone and/or data services on their planes. US carrier JetBlue is offering free but limited wi-fi, aimed at CrackBerry junkies; Air France will shortly test cellular broadband, data-only; Qantas is trialling a data-only service on one of its 767s; and Emirates is kitting out a plane to try out a voice and data service.

The old myth about mobiles interfering with avionics has finally been put to bed. The two remaining issues are cost - Irish discount carrier Ryanair will allow voice calls on short flights, with the airline taking a cut from telcos' nosebleed global roaming charges - and of course whether non-cellphone users will strangle their mobile-totting co-passengers.

Mind your step
I have a theory that people who love danger sports have a near-sociopathic lack of imagination. The same goes for dangerous jobs. Bad things do happen. Walking to work around 8am I merrily ploughed through some traffic cones on the corner of Wellesley St East and Queen St. "Stop! Do you want that to fall on your head?" asked a fireman, rushing toward me. Looking up, I saw that the window washing platform parked to the top of the corner office tower had broken free, crashing down onto a ledge above the main street shops. Here's some pics from my phone: