Communication
August 24th, 2007 | Filed under Technology.OK this is getting silly. At one time I had a single PC and it ran an IRC client and I could chat to hordes of random people on the Internet for a few hours, before running up a huge phone bill. I also had email, but nobody to email things to. This was back in 1997 just in case you were wondering.
Right now I’m signed on to IRC, MSN, Skype, Google Talk, GMail and a web forum. Oh and I have my mobile phone.
That’s just this PC. With my N800 I can do all of those too, and, as I discovered earlier tonight, I can MSN from my XBox 360 which is a painful experience without a keyboard (so get a USB keyboard and plug it in). These aren’t just little gimmicks I play with out of curiosity, they’ve now become quite important methods of communication. I use my N800 quite a lot as a portable Skype phone and web browser, since sometimes it’s nice to chat to your friends when making the tea or watching TV.
Now if only the mobile phone operators could make GPRS very very cheap so I could be on Skype permanently when not at home. Of course they’d hate that since I’d not be using their calling plans.
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