SKYPE

For a while now some of my friends in other countries have been encouraging me to get skype so we can talk through the internet for free, but I've resisted as I reckon there's nothing wrong with the Mickey Mouse phone on my desk. Anyway, I already have a pretty competitive international calling plan from Verizon.

Today I got an email from Josh Warren (son of you-know-who) to say that since he was now their liaison person with the Moderators of their Pastors' Forum, he thought it would be good if we could do conference calls on skype, especially since they would be free.

So, a quick download, a $7 microphone and within minutes I'm having a conversation with a friend half way across the country.

For someone born at a time when few homes even had TV's, way before the VCR and an eternity before the laptop computer I am sitting here using, this is all very Twilight Zone-ish.

I'm better not thinking about it, but it is definitely weird to be sitting at your computer and talking to someone thousands of miles away. I do have a webcam and I could stretch things by using that too, but I fear that to be talking and seeing the other party at the same time might well cause me a fatal brain misfunction!

Mind you, I do like the price!