My brother (who is 10 years younger than me and lives in Sydney) and his wife visited us on the weekend.

According to my kids, he is COOL! (in my terms, he understands convergence).

He is an engineer who works on systems so he is up with the latest technology: he brought back from China a tiny MP3 player which also has a voice recorder, FM radio and 256MB Flash drive! He was able to demonstrate it to my son and explain all the options.

When my daughter’s digital camera wouldn’t download he brought out his memory card reader to check out the problem.

He is checking out prams at the moment: they now come with MP3 players!

A great visit! Every business needs someone like that who not only understands how things work but how all the uses integrate with each other.