Weblog of Sunday 08 June 2008

Linden distributes freebies to everyone's inventory:
http://sl4nowt.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-silently-delivered-freebies

My Jabber fiasco

Mal Burns' SL Edu-Blog on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/136293.html

Mal Burns profile on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/profile

Looking at the LiveJournal profile of Mal Burns, I see I could IM him using Jabber.

Instructions for using Jabber chat on LiveJournal:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat

I download Miranda Jabber Client:
http://www.miranda-im.org

Which in turn requires download of OpenSSL:
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

The Miranda installation process for some reason requires registration for ICQ chat:
http://chat.icq.com/icqchat

I end up with Danton's page on ICQ chat:
http://www.icq.com/people/about_me.php?uin=460249671

The Miranda menu shows Jabber, but won't open it. And ICQ is not a Jabber client. I go back to the list of recommended Jabber Clients on the Livejournal Talk page and decide to try Pidgin:
http://www.pidgin.im

I install Pidgin without noticing that Jabber is NOT one of the systems that Pidgin can work with. So next I try Gizmo LJ Talk:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat/download

But then when I try to entre my screen name, dantonsideways@livejournal.com turns out to be one character too long to fit in the window! Sheesh, they coulda told me there was a limit. So that is screwed too!

So I use Google to find a list of Jabber Clients:
http://www.jabber.org/clients

At the top of the list is Psi, which I installed once, but disinstalled because it would always open when my computer did, and I couldn't unset that.

to be continued...