A Gentle Push for Skype

Since I do have the internet back, I am going to take advantage of this opportunity to make a quick plug for Skype - sometimes I do actually want to see your smiling (or if the Hawkeyes lost again, perhaps frowning) faces instead of just text on the screen.

So...http://www.skype.com/download/
There it is. Just press the 'download' button.

Interesting New Zealand Fact: according to one of the annoying public service ads, half of all house fires are started under the influence. So if you are throwing back a couple beers, don't turn on the stove - go get takeaway. Or else move to another country where they have managed to figure out how to avoid this serious problem.