Monday, May 03, 2004  

Sometimes I amaze myself with my ingenuity. You all know how much I love the Lakers. You might also know that I haven't been able to watch them over the past few years, partially because they didn't show ANY NBA game on ANY channel in the UK, and partially because the few they show in HK are at Ravi-unfriendly hours. The opening game of the Lakers-Spurs series, however, was at 3:30am... which is a very Ravi-friendly hour. Except it wasn't on.

So then I had one of those EUREKA! moments. I messaged fellow Laker fan Leo, who I knew had to be watching the game, asked him to turn his Apple iSight webcam towards the TV and start an iChat video conference with me. Which he did. The quality wasn't the best, naturally -- the TV's colours were all washed out, so the white-clad Spurs virtually blended into the court, and it was kinda blocky -- but it was better than nothing and CERTAINLY better than the SI.com Box Score updates that I've been using to keep track of the Lakers over the past four years. And it's a really cool use of the iSight.

Alas, it was all for nothing, because the Lakers lost the first game.

Posted at 6:30 AM

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