The Lair

Yes, grammarians, that missing apostrophe is intentional. Sue me. Don’t come here looking for good quality humour, I aim for ultra cheap and irritatingly frequent instead of occasional and classy.

Recently switched back to Pidgin (IM not confused with Gaim, honest) and I’ve discovered it’s not so bad after all. This is because my expectations are based on the not-updated-in-3-years-or-more Trillian, which makes me pretty easy to please. Randomly: use Gtk+ themes on Windows. They make Gaim look tons better. Almost not-ugly. I may have plugged the themes before, but it’s worth another reminder. The themes have made me almost-forget my cringing uglier-than-rhino-ass reaction to the Gaim UI…

Also had an almost-migration (yay for randomly and inappropriately hyphenating-words) from Twitter to Jaiku - only to discover that Jaiku doesn’t support IM notifications. A brief moment of panic - a reasonably well configured IM client, like an email client and newreader, can helps carve up the whole information overload into bite sized chunks. Fortunately, I discovered the intriguing Anothr - which promises to send RSS feeds as notifications to an IM client.

The whole idea is so simple that I wonder why people haven’t thought of it before - there is a cutesy syntax for adding, querying and removing feeds. In some ways, this reminds of an AIM bot I wrote ages ago (thanks to Net::AIM, I actually did very little of the actual code) for monitoring servers. Except this is for feeds, works on across multiple mediums and is probably less buggy than my concoction, but whatever.

I still like the Twitter API better though. But in the face of overwhelming peer pressure (or not), I have caved and become a jaikunaut. I mean, hey - facebook, last.fm, flickr, twitter, jaiku. How many accounts can one have before it all becomes too much? Oh, by the way - I need one of these too.