Well there we go. A whole new kind of fun: talking to anonymous people you don’t know in places you’ve never been to.

I installed Skype this afternoon and dug out my old PC telephone. I’ve not used it in years - not since I did an interview on it on the radio about how it was the future of communications. The phone is dead and all that. Then Sandy Waugh, who was on the studio end of the conversation asked why you’d want to make cheap international calls that way instead of using a calling card and I didn’t have a decent answer.

Anyhow, Skype’s different because as well as letting you call landlines all over the place for

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