Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Breakfast: a banana. Worked on schedules with Lucia. She's getting to be a real pro at InDesign now. Made dupes of the ergonomics CD-ROM that disability management sent us. The Mac Mini to replace my old G4 arrived today! Hooray! Linkchecking. Minor updates to the current students calendar and news. Deployed a new USB drive. Started setting up the Mac Mini. Realized I don't have the right cables for hooking up to my KVM, so placed an order with Cyberguys along with a few other items our office needed. Susie and I met with Harold Mann of Mann Consulting to ask questions about taking raw video content to the web. Harold was very helpful and a clear communicator. Today Chris and I tested Skype-to-Polycom and then Skype-to-Skype in a conference room for a forthcoming meeting while he'll be in Asia. We were surprised to find that the Skype-to-Skpye sound quality was significantly better than Skype-to-Polycom (using SkypeOut). On his end he was using headphones and a microphone, and on the conference room end I was using just the laptop's built-in speaker and microphone. We are very pleased with Skype's performance in this test.