I’m not really an instant messaging person, but I just got out of a chat with my old co-worker from Sri Lanka who is now in Damascus, Syria. Damascus. We were talking just like she was in the cube with me. Now, I was hyped for the ‘mind boggling global potential of the internet’ in 1992 (at ~3am on a late night in March) but sometimes it just hits me afresh what a beautiful thing such said global communication is. How cool is it that I can talk with this woman who, a few years ago, I would have lost track of as she made her way across the world to learn Arabic and finally back to Sri Lanka? Instead she’s online telling me she’s going to stay for a year and I would love Damascus and how I should come visit her. I love you internet!
I am a hopeless geek.
michael | 03-Sep-04 at 12:30 am | Permalink
put the fancy new microphone to another use and plug it into iChat, or check out skype!
http://www.skype.com/skype.html
yara | 19-Sep-04 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
and you could talk to me too! i’m all set up on Skype (yarafish). i thought of you today. i went down to Portabello Rd Market and tried on velvet coats and ate cupcakes.