Thing 7- blog post about anything technology-related

Our family has been very excited about SKYPE. It has been wonderful for keeping up with our daughter at college this fall and when she was studying in Italy over the past summer. In additon to being able to phone her on the computer, she has a camera on her laptop at her end, so she gave us a virtual tour of her apartment in Perugia and introduced us to her roommates at home in the living room. This fall at college she called and showed us the Halloween costumes she and her boyfriend had put together for the big college party (they went as the Cold War: she as the USSR, he as Uncle Sam)- It is wonderful to be able to share in real time. We are trying hard not let it supplant other forms of communications, because email and actual letters are important, too, but SKYPE is a wonderful technology.