Harsh J

Google Buzz’s spoiled the whole Google Reader experience. For starters, I don’t want to see comments from people I do not have on my contact list – I simply don’t care what they have to say since most go “Good one” when there’s a damn Like button they can use.

And if Reader’s linked to Buzz, sync’s supposed to work bi-directional since comments do so. Reading articles and comments in both places is just not good use of time. So until someone comes along and tells me this is done, Buzz’s turned off in my inbox. Like I care.

Boggis, Bunce and Bean from Fantastic Mr. Fox

And the following is how it begins,

Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were none the less equally mean.

Thorougly enjoyed watching Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010 movie, based on a book by Roald Dahl). The art, humor, plot, voice cast and the dialogs – all were excellent. A 10 from me for the entertainment!

(Pff, not that it counts coming from here anyway; but great job you studio folks)

Well, since I couldn’t fix a particular bug myself and the other developers think all is working well with Yahoo under KDE’s Kopete software, I had to switch over to the second best way to connect to IM networks – BitlBee via Konversation. This post is merely a note to self for adding Jabber accounts for GMail and Google Apps Mail accounts in BitlBee, once setup.

To add GMail is easy, using the Jabber protocol:

account add jabber username@gmail.com password

To add Google Apps Mail needs one more step:

account add jabber username@domain.tld password
account set 0/server talk.google.com
# You may want to replace '0' with your account number via 'account list'

account on and have fun with your now-more-powerful IRC Client.