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I've just seen my first videophone conversation, between my parents in the UK and my brother in Vancouver. Call me a technological retrograde, but I was astonished. Not by the technology, but by the use of it. For years it was axiomatic that videophone technology hadn't taken off since the first attempt to launch it back IIRC in the 1980s, not because the technology did not exist, but because people didn't want it: did not want to be seen on camera during a conversation, when they might not be looking their best, or whatever. And here were my parents clamouring for Darren to turn on the camera when he accidentally hit the wrong button and killed the video.

Well, it just goes to show. What it just goes to show I'm not sure. But I'm sure it goes to show something.

In other news, לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה to blue_pork, livredor, rav_hadassah, wein_glass, hatam_soferet, curious_reader, wub, snjstar, dhole, awful_dynne, troo, darcydodo and pseudomonas; also to spin0za1, justinep, yobadazizi and calliope_epic if they're still reading this; also to zsero, jonahrank, yoelishkeit even though I wouldn't know you from Adam. :o)