Always in search of a good community activity.    This year,  I am running a balloon race for our village fate.    You know the type of thing lots of children buy a ticket.  Ticket gets attached to helium filled balloons and they are all launched.    The furthest found balloon results in a prize for both the ticket holder and the person who finds the balloon.

So,  how may you ask,  has this got anything todo with mobile line of business?       We’ll I’m going to use a Virtual Earth map on a website  to plot where all the balloons land.   Rather than the people that find the balloons posting their found ticket back   I’m going to have them register their find on the website also.   Anyway,   the website is up and running in test mode at the moment   with a launch date of the 5th July.    All proceeds are going to rebuilding the swimming pool at our children's school.    I'll let you know when the website is live so you can all go have a look.    Oh yes and the mobile bit.   All balloons are carrying a barcoded tag so we can spot check them at anytime using a Windows Mobile scanner.