feeling listless

SMS Watching Mtv's Video Clash is always a dubious and curious option. Apart from the choice of combatants (in recent episode the boy band 'Blue' Vs PJ Harvey), is there real value in watching a scrolling message featuring comments like 'show us your arse robbie we luv you b & jules'? And I always wonder how many people actually txtd anyway. Well it seems too many. Thousands of messages are actually being junked before they even reach the channel's servers by the network operators: "The problem arises when broadcasters don't warn us they are publicising a text message number," said an Orange spokeswoman, "Radio 1 uses a machine attached to the back of a PC, which can only handle a slightly greater volume of messages than an average mobile phone can."