A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
13 September 2004
I’ve started to eliminate MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger clients from all my machines. Motivated to do so by a couple problems:
* too aggressive toast behaviour, when I am playing a directx game i don’t want any toast thank you. (AIM has this problem too). * poor idle detection. people were sending me messages when i was not at my machine. * wrong strategy for presence detection. messages were going to the wrong machine (I use 4 at work and 5 at home regularly) and i would see messages days after they arrived. AIM has this right, they don’t try to figure out presence, they just MIRV the message to all your signed-in locations.
If you want to IM me, i’m jhludwig on AIM.