Live from Billericay, er I mean, Las Vegas

Here’s my badge.  Not ordinarily of interest, I know, except the fact that when the polite chap at the registration desk handed it over, I had to wince, silently.  Billericay.My home town.  For some reason I put on my home, home address on the CTIA media sign-up form.  So instead of proclaiming the fact I’m from London, one of the key centres of mobile innovation in Europe, … well, my badge says ‘Ewan MacLeod, SMS Text News, Billericay’.Right.  Lots of folk have been staring.  One person asked what part of Ireland I was from.  Theoretically I could be from Northern Ireland (the ‘United Kingdom’ bit is a dead giveaway that I’m not from Ireland, but I didn’t say anything).