No phone AND IM troubles!

[ciphergoth]

I still haven't got my phone.

I'm hoping that I'll get it back on Tuesday; if not it's lost forever.

In the mean time, you can often get me on IM (though somewhat erratically when I'm in Hatfield). I'm going to start using my LJ account as my sole "personal" IM account, and stop using my jabber.org.uk account altogether. This is because jabber.org.uk is incredibly unreliable - it's down right now for example - while LJ seems very reliable. So please update your clients: my Jabber address is now

ciphergoth@livejournal.com

and all the others can be deleted. I also have a work IM address, but I'm planning on using that only for work from hereon in.

If you're on my friends list and you use your LJ account for Jabber, you're automatically on my contacts list.

If you're still stuck in the past with some proprietary nonsense for IM, please join us here in the open standards future.

Comments

[adjectivegail]

This jabber of which you speak. I mostly use googlechat for IMing (on the rare occasions when I do that), ISTR something about googlechat being wonderful because of something jabber-y, but really I don't know what I'm (or you are) talking about.

1) I thought Jabber was just another way of IMing, why/how's it different from MSN, ICQ, etc?

2) I think probably because I've not looked into Jabber, but I've pretty much ignored LJ's chat feature. Would I have to download something else? Is it really that much better?

3) Do most people really IM all that much?

[hughe.livejournal.com]

so far every jabber client i have tried doesnt work with livejournal.

but thats only the jabber clients i have tried.