Hello! This is Finlay, age nine, blogging live from Nokia World in Barcelona, as promised.

Nico, Dave, Natasha, Kevin and I went to the Nokia World party on Tuesday night.

As you can see Nokia have gone a bit playlist-tastic.

The place was
plastered from top to toe in context-specific playlists.

Dave and Natasha, in party mood.

You couldn't move for stripes, playlists, etc.

Every screen, every wall, every message.

This last one is a urinal playlist – nice.

At the club room of the Wellcome Collection this evening for an event organised by At Abrahams.
I was chairing the evening, which was themed 'When is enough, enough?"

There was a fascinating and diverse line-up of participants. Science writer Colin Barras talked about what he saw as the need for scientists to continue to push the frontiers of knowledge, even when challenged by self-appointed moral guardians or prophets of doom.

The Neo Futurist Collective performed a few music / spoken word pieces celebrating urban chaos and noise.

Frances Corner, Head of the Royal College of Fashion discussed the role of the designer in a world where there is a proliferation of cheap, widely available, disposable fashion.

And expedition organiser Andy Pag talked about how he drove from London to Timbuktu in a chocolate-powered lorry and organised a rally to Greece in which the cars were all fuelled by vegetable oil scavenged from the waste fat from chippies and kebab shops on the route.

Seemed like a genuinely interesting evening to me and I think I got away with my somewhat ill-prepared remarks in defence of advertising (in the broad sense) as a potential force for good in a world where people are deluged at every turn by a torrent of crap sales messages. At least, no-one threw anything at me.