I've just spent about half an hour video chatting using iChat with my dad. No big deal, we do this all the time. But he is not at home now, he's on a broadband connection in a quite fancy hotel costing the equivalent of Eur. 69 per night.

Now he's going to sleep, maybe drinking a Heineken from the mini bar (Eur. 2,8) before and watching a movie on HBO or some news on CNN.

My dad is in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.

PS: he just tried to comment this post but he couldn't reach UserLand's comment server. It might be censored. Or maybe is simply a dns problem. :-)