Cheers for the Internet
After seven weeks of waiting, the Faroese telephone company has successfully installed my DSL connection to the internet. How wonderful to have access to my email from home, instead of walking up to the library. I can also keep up with the news online, now. I don’t have a television, I don’t understand the radio, and it takes me a very long time to read a Faroese newspaper. I can also see a view of the construction project for my church in Berkeley, and I even listened to a recent sermon by Josh McPaul. Now Jonathan is teaching my how to maintain the site myself, so he won’t need to copy my emails onto the website.
September 24th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Hello! It was great to talk with you the other day. Espescially once you’d gotten your microphone working…
For those of you who weren’t there:
My mom & I are using Skype to make “phone” calls over the Internet. I called her Tuesday evening (after her Internet connection was working), and we managed to connect, except for one thing: although I could hear her, she couldn’t hear me. So we talked for about half an hour, with me doing all the talking and her typing responses over Skype’s instant-messaging tool. Basically, it was a 30-minute monologue.
It was the weirdest phone call I’ve ever made in my life.
It turns out that there was some configuration problem with her microphone. Once she got it set up correctly, we had a more ordinary conversation the next day.