I was supposed to be in Cincinnati this week, attending a meeting. I had a personal thing come up that made it impossible for me to travel this week, but I still wanted to be part of the meeting. Even without a lot of preparation, this is a lot easier than it used to be.

My colleague Arden is at the meeting with his Mac, and I have an iChat video session open on the room. This gives me a fairly decent feel for the meeting. At the same time, we have the audio for that muted and I have a skype out call going to get onto a speaker phone in the room.

That's all going by wired networking here, and wifi in the meeting room itself. THis is all pretty cool. The only downside? If I get up to get coffee, it's just as noticeable as if I were there in person :)