Tittle-Tattle

Its been a long time, lots of things to post but never posted. Workplace changed, blogs labeled Infosys will decrease and those labeled Accenture will increase! Apparent changes in web presence - AOL becomes primary IM. MSN is also there to some extent. And came to know about this nice thing called trillian . Sleek one, useful if you use many instant messengers and you actually chat using all of them. Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ. My home PC recovered from a near crash situation. Its working fine right now, touch wood! Reason being, switching it off from the UPS directly instead of normal shutdown (There's a four year old in house!). Ubuntu is totally unusable now, is not booting up at all and I saw it going from bad to worse while trying to recover. Windows looks normal now after a system restore and multiple chkdsks . Had to buy additional USB harddisk for backup. You get a 160GB Seagate hard-disk, vendor assembled in a Tech-Com casing for Rs 3328/- (tax included) in Bangalor...

This post by Om Malik made me think. How many IMs I know - 1. MSN Messenger (An old version - used inside my office intranet) 2. Yahoo Messenger (My primary IM since long) 3. Skype (Trying to switch to it, one good thing is it works on Linux with voice) 4. Gaim (Use it to connect to multiple servers simultaneously, not frequently, with increased voice chatting, not using it regularly) 5. Google talk (Post gmail integration, my usage is increasing) 6. Microsoft's Live messenger (Yet to try) 7. MySpace (Yet to try - I don't have account on MySpace) 8. AOL (Never used - never been to America ;-) ) 9. Rediff Bol (Never used it) 10.Indiatimes (Haven't used it since long, not sure if its still there) ... Before starting this post, I was thinking why do we need so many messengers. But after listing so many and seeing that I use more than one, my idea changed. What else? What else? Add your messengers... ~mks