Remote collaboration can be fiddly stuff.

Right now I'm sitting in a client's videoconferencing suite in London staring at a huge LCD monitor showing a video feed from a similar room in Birmingham.

There's nobody there, of course. Despite all the marvels of modern communication technology, we still can't get folk to turn up meetings on time...

And I can't help noticing what looks like a bowl of sweets on the table at their end. I've just got tea...