Before taking a 2-week break from the world, I was excited to discover that Skype had been released for OS X. Just like I had been earlier excited by the discovery that I could talk to my family using iChat, I now discovered that I can, using my laptop, call anyone in the US for 2 cents a minute. That is, my voice goes through my computer, over the Internet, and pops out somewhere in the USA and lets me talk to friends on the phone.
Given that I am rarely far away from an Internet connection, this makes it much easier to try and stay in better touch with people on the other side of the Atlantic. I can make calls from home (over our wireless network, even), or from my office. Very, very handy.
So, if you’re keen, go download Skype, and drop me an email with your username. Calling from PC to PC is free. Or, if this sounds like too much technology, drop me an email with your phone number; I have fewer excuses now for not keeping in touch!