• Up with the lark. I must’ve been drunk last night – I don’t remember bringing a lark home. Beer goggles again. #
• Weird dream last night. I was in a sitcom set at a party conference. Everything else was normal. Except I was played by Nicholas Lyndhurst. #
• Sitting on the registration desk at #smclondon08 (which I hope I’ve hashtagged right). #
• Saying hello to @billt who isn’t supposed to be here 🙂 #
• Reading messages from people downstairs and on there way on http://twemes.com/smclondon08 #smclondon08 #
• http://twitpic.com/ehpa – Tom Whitwell from The Times #smclondon08 #
• Tom Whitwell highlighting Drudge Report as the best user of story headlines #smclondon08 #
• Tom Whitwell: “Write your headline first. Really. Always.” Good story that can’t find a headline isn’t a good story. #smclondon08 #
• It feels very odd to be happily tapping away on my phone while someone’s talking #smclondon08 #
• Giant picture of @plasticbagUK on the screen at the session “Native in a Web of Dudes”. #smclondon08 #
• “It’s not you, it’s I.T.” says listener as she apologetically leaves talk #smclondon08 (@diamondgeezer unfollow me, I’ll @ when done 🙂 #
• http://twitpic.com/ehzw – The smclondon08 crowd lunching #
• Now Measuring Engagement in the Web 2.0 World, using Web 2.0 as content created for teh internets rather than translated for it #smclondon08 #
• I love Twitter. Via the #smclondon08 hashtag I’ve just seen a Twitter from @DrPep who I realise from his avatar is sitting next to me. #
• @benxo I have laptop-related hot legs too. Think I might go back to phone-based twittering for next session. #smclondon08 #
• Really nice food. Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? (As long as you have generous sponsors. Thanks!) #smclondon08 #
• Entirely concur with the slagging off of snap.com #smclondon08 #
• http://twitpic.com/ei6d – @qwghlm is presenting #
• Yay! I can haz 3G. New SIM just activated. #
• http://twitpic.com/eic8 – Ben Godfrey about to talk #smclondon08 #
• Very much need an injection of coffee. #
• Just discovered who @anniemole is. No, I didn’t know. Listening to her on blogging. #smclondon08 #
• Blogs more influential than social networking sites. More US readers than Facebook users #smclondon08 #
• @anniemole inspiring me to reinvigorate my too quiet blog #smclondon08 #
• I can see my twitter on the screen in the Big Room 🙂 #smclondon08 #
• http://twitpic.com/eizk – The Big Room screen #smclondon08 #
• I’m behind you! #smclondon08 (sorry to everyone else) #
• I’m slightly disappointed we haven’t managed to break twitter today. Bring on the fail whale! #smclondon08 #
• @girlonetrack You probably need a plugin for that. #smclondon08 #
• Want to make a dirty joke about rich structures but considering my online reputation. #smclondon08 #
• @anniemole Good tweeting! #smclondon08 #
• @qwghlm declares that you never win a business card draw with a minicard and then promptly wins with one. #
• @diamondgeezer Done now. Thanks for forebearance. #
• @jamesgraham You were too late to get on the screen. And don’t diss Sussex. #
• @secretlondon Not deliberately. But when 90% of people there are on twitter… #
• @secretlondon Genuinely think it was a bit of fun for a very silly last session of the day. #
• Exhausted now and watching Robot Chicken Star Wars DVD. May have to go to bed before 10. #

I see from the Beeb that Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the Leader of the Lords, is to replace the repatriated Peter Mandelson as the UK’s member of the European Commission.

There was speculation previously that Geoff Hoon could have been the nominee, which would have prompted a by-election in his parliamentary seat because you can’t be an MP and an EU Commissioner.

But can you be a Lord and an EU Commissioner?

Section 1.1.1 of the Commissioners’ Code of Conduct (PDF) states:

Commissioners may not hold any public office of whatever kind.

Now that sounds fairly unambiguous. Being a member of a legislature, however that position is obtained, must surely count?

Baroness Ludford, the Liberal Democrats’ London MEP, has a similar problem: MEPs are no longer allowed to sit in national legislatures, so in order to continue in the post after the European elections in 2009, Sarah Ludford will either need to get the rules changed, or resign her peerage – something the law doesn’t currently allow her to do.

Until now, it’s not been in the Government’s interest to help out by introducing a law that would give “life” peers the ability to give up their peerage – a change similar to that made to hereditary peerages following pressure brought by Tony Benn in the 1960s when he became Viscount Stansgate.

Will Baroness Ashton’s new post prompt Labour to act so that she can avoid a conflict of interest? Or will they try to fudge the issue by claiming that a voluntary “leave of absence” from the upper house – during which she could effectively return to and vote in the Lords whenever she wanted – would be enough to meet the European Commissioners’ Code of Conduct?

• Mandelson coming back to the Government? Gosh. #
• Does open the way for Geoff Hoon to become an EU Commissioner as rumoured… #
• Except, no, Geoff Hoon becomes Transport Secretary. #
• Going for Gold is going to be resurrected by Five? This is much more important than a Cabinet reshuffle – why did no-one tell me? #
• Now I think about it, Five have largely brought Going for Gold back once before, calling it One to Win. They just dropped the first round. #
• Hurrah! Big Project Stage 2 has had its first big leap forward. *does a little dance* #
• Several missed calls and one odd voicemail from number Google tells me is Leeds hairdresser specialising in extensions. Probably not for me. #
• On train to Slough hoping to make it to Pinewood in time for I.T. Crowd recording. #
• IT Crowd was very fun. Graham Linehan was marvellous. Must blog about. Now to get home from Pinewood. #

• Impressed by O2 customer services for the second time in as many months and looking forward to my new 3G-enabled SIM. #
• @jamesgraham Surely BE57? #
• Playing briefly with YouTube’s new Hot Spots feature: http://tinyurl.com/4×3297 #
• Using my latent statto powers to cross tabulate some schizzle. #
• @stephmog I am now terrified after Old Googling myself. #
• @HelenDuffett Stop Googling me! I was young and innocent! [I was pleased to see you liked your local bridge :)] #
• Heading into the Tube and hoping – probably in vain – that Sir Ian Blair’s departure makes it slightly less likely that I’ll be shot. #
• Wandering up to @jamesgraham’s for games. #
• So many big red buses passing through Camberwell. #