Month: August 2005

I’ve pretty much switched from Firefox to Opera now, though I’m not sure I’ll stick with it. It does a few things better than Firefox, but it renders some pages kind of funny. (Some of the stuff on the Blogger home page looks off, for instance.) It does seem to be generally faster than Firefox.

Opera is giving away free registration codes for their browser today. I’m not sure how long they’ll be doing this. Opera usually costs $39, I think.

This stuff might be what I’m looking for, to start messing around with Jabber / Google Talk.

Just for yuks, I downloaded Google Talk today. I’ve never been much into IM, but since this is from Google, maybe I’ll be able to do something interesting with it at some point. I’ve been kind of curious for a while about the possibility of using IM for various system notifications and stuff like that. Other IM clients I’ve played with haven’t had useful command-line versions (or APIs) that could be called from a script. I’m kind of curious to see what’ll happen with this one.