A quick chat with Ant (shifty-eyed genius) has led me to try Gaim, the open-source multi-network messenger app. He is completely and utterly addicted to this thing, it's plug-ins and little features that make it so much better than most commercial apps (and all commercial IM apps) and I can start to see why... I won't go into a big review of the thing because this blog is purely here to get me to write again (and reviews will be reserved for the ever delayed Itchybrain.org) but I can say that in the same way I'd prefer to watch, say, an episode of The Sopranos instead of most big Hollywood movies, I'd rather play around with stuff like Gaim, or Flickr's cool RSS feeds than most big games released -- well, apart for Half-Life 2, Halo 2 and Burnout 3 but you get the message... Or maybe not, as I'm not explaining myself very well, maybe some other time. Back to work.