the lake

but i don't bring you fire. i thought about that, but then noticed someone had already done it. bastard.

what i bring is almost as useful, if not more. we now have induction cookers, so the need for fire has dwindled a lot. these days, what we really need is a way to post stuff to twitter.

i had this idea when i saw several people posting to the rglondon twitter stream. sometimes the tweets would have a bit identifying the person who posted them ([bob]), sometimes they wouldn't. this annoyed me. i started thinking about it, and realised that probably they were all sharing the password for the twitter account. which seemed bad. of course, it's not like i have nou or rjw1 on speed-dial, so i set out to make things right (tm).

as it happens, i'd been wanting to do something using xmpp for some time, seeing as pedro has been doing really cool shit (tm) with it and waxes lyrical about how it's the future and all that; and i also wanted to learn anyevent and forget that poe ever existed (not that i don't like poe, i do, but anyevent's freedom to choose, well, everything, appealed to me). so this seemed like a good opportunity to SHUT THE FUCK UP AND WRITE SOME CODE.

which i did.

it's not up on cpan yet, but it'll be rsn. in the mean time, if you're interested in this you have either my email, jid, or phone number; so feel free to send in those bug reports.

note: perl 5.10.0 on darwin segfaults, i'm looking into this. if you run this on darwin, use 5.8.8. on linux you can use either one.

update: it's now on cpan.

i've just got a system message after logging in to yahoo! that went something like "now you can save your conversations on your yahoo! account, where you can later view them like email!". sound familiar?

given the yahoo! - msn messenger promiscuity of late, i'm guessing they're starting to notice the cows are leaving for greener pastures. i can only hope that they die a very slow and very painful death (especially msn, which is probably the worst network protocol of any kind i've ever seen) for all the grief they gave over the past decade or so.

logged in to google talk using proteus, specifying jabber account and port 5222 on talk.google.com.

so... it's an im server. exciting, isn't it? either they do something big with it (and perhaps even give xmpp a much needed shot of adrenaline) or they can fuck off.