I use twitter quite a bit. I like to post to twitter in the most unobtrusive way possible. I don’t like to interupt my workflow to post a quick thought or update. When they used to have their Jabber bot running – it was easy for me to just type in my update and get [...]

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Last week my friend Mark pinged me and mentioned that I should get together with a friend of his who was in town for PYCON. I am always into meeting new people so I had dinner with Brian Dorsey. It was awesome. I was able to rant and rave about all my ideas, interests and [...]

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Today I spent a minute setting up a Ejabberd Server for the OLPC Chicago group. This will allow all of us OLPC XO hackers to be on the same “mesh.” To get started using the jabber server with your XO follow these simple steps:

Boot the XO
Get connected to the internet
Open a terminal (activity or ctrl-alt-f1)
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I love jabber. I love Google talk because it is jabber. I really like what jabber supports and how it works. And the Google talk desktop app is pretty smooth.
A couple weeks ago Google released Google talk gadget that allowed group chatting. This was super weird since the flash based gadget has totally blown [...]

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You know when you are speaking and you are have a word stuck in your head and you can’t quite think what it is. it is on the tip of your tongue or whatever. Well for the past couple weeks, whenever someone mentions jabber, gtalk or xmpp or whenever I start thinking about those topics – [...]

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