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3-way iChat

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iChat with 3 people

The other night at work, I finally found myself surrounded by enough Macs to pull-off a video chat with two other participants. The feature has been part of OSX since 10.3 (Panther), but I’ve never known enough people with iSight cameras to do it. It requires a G5 or Intel processor to initiate a chat with multiple video feeds. Being on a Powerbook G4, I couldn’t initiate the chat, only participate.

It was quite fun. Full disclosure: two of us were already sitting right across from each other! So, I wouldn’t call it a test of the capability, just good old fashioned geek delight! Find a couple of friends with Macs and get the party started.

Olbermann swings a truth mace.

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Over the past few weeks Keith Olbermann has made it a point to question the ethics of the Bush administration. In several eloquent commentaries featured at the end of his Countdown news program on MSNBC, Olbermann has made minced meat of the policies of fear the administration has implemented since 9/11 and called many administration officials out on their ergregious lies.

These are excellent commentaries coming at a time when America needs to hear them. This president � in his primetime speeches � preaches tolerance of political foes and differing opinions. Then he goes to rooms full of party donors and savagely attacks democrats as unpatriotic terrorist sympathizers. Statements such as that need to be answered with nothing short of Olbermann’s primetime indictments.

Take a look at Olbermann’s commentary from Friday on YouTube (part 1, part 2)

The Office

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For the past week, we’ve been watching the UK version of The Office on DVD. I shouldn’t say week. It’s actually about 4 days, the show is very addictive! It is easily some of the best television I’ve ever seen. Mainly because it is so painfully awkward to watch David Brent, the office manager, played by Ricky Gervais. Gervais is absolutely brilliant as the “where would you be without me” type of manager who makes you seriously rethink the value of an office manager in general. What I really enjoy the most though, is the subtlety of a lot of the comedy. Behind the outrageous Gervais is a very capable cast that displays an awesome sense of comedic timing. It ends up being very rich with silent funny moments.

It only aired on the BBC for 2 seasons, which I think is good. We just finished watching the second season last night and I laughed just as hard watching the last episode as I did watching the first. That is the way it should be. American network television programs go on painfully longer than they should in most cases. This show ended just right, and not the way you’d expect.

If you haven’t seen it yet, go put it on your Netflix queue.