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Today my youngest sister had her confirmation party (humanistic confirmation held by The Norwegian Humanist Association) which involved relatives, friends, a lot of food and a challenge solved by Skype.

My other sister is currently an exchange student in the US. And the two sisters are close. The one abroad wanted to give a speech during the dinner party. My brother and I therefore rigged a laptop, some cheap speakers, a projector with screen and a webcam. With the simplicity Skype offers (as well as other IM and video call apps) she held the speech to the main person tonight, my youngest sister, as well as all the other guests.

“Nice moment for technology” I said to myself and took some pictures with my mobile phone, while grandma shed some tears.

As I noted in a blog post earlier I had some issues with some of the installation procedures in VikingCopy 0.1. Tor Henning promised that he would fix them and now he has. This weekend the VikingCopy project bumped up 0.2 versions to 0.3. I haven’t gotten around to install it yet, however Tor Henning left me a note on Windows Live saying “Install path fjaset = fixed“ (fjaset = sillyness)

So I take his word for it

Originally posted at christoph.no and republished with permission.