Buying new computer is a major decision in your virtual life household, and I was looking for a really powerful horse to pull my online presence. Instead of upgrading both laptop and stationary PC, I went for a mighty fine hand built Danish laptop named Zepto. I'm now  running Vista and so far no major problems with that. I can go into Second Life, I can Skype and there is a built in firewall that seem smooth. My first disppointment arrived when I tried running on battery because it lasted only about 45 minutes on a full charge. When I had this expereince twice, I called Support. The guy was really helpful! He suggested that my battery was perhaps not good, and will send me a fresh replacement part at once! This is what I call conduite and kudos to Zepto for this gesture.

On Friday evening, I had invited Etienne Wenger to engage with me in a skype cast dialog examining how the Community of Practice had emerged in the case of Webheads in Action. Of ourse we ran into some typical last minute challenges with tech stuff; such as sharing our collaborate slides on Slideshare (where they just looked ugly and useless, so I had to delete them and instead improvise slides as screendumps, uploaded on Flickr instead). I am very eager to find some time to go back and listen to this recording. Although most listeners were muted by default by Jeff Lebow who was our technical assistant, they were invited in turn to join us and take part in the conversation,