I was invited to web conference today. I spend a lot of time in web conferences and phone conferences. This one was being hosted on the Sametime Unyte service (formerly WebDialogs). I was connecting from a new machine so I ran the “system test tool” It said I had the right browser, JVM, plugin, and [...]

I was about to sit down for a little mindless television when the phone rang. It was a recorded message but I actually listened for 15 seconds. It was an automated system announcing that U.S. Congresswoman Thelma Drake (2nd District Of Virginia) was having a teleconference town hall meeting and if I stayed on the [...]