I'd like to chat to someone/anyone vaguely fannish, but...

[hmpf]

... my multi-messenger doesn't work.

What's the word on using Skype for chat? I don't have a microphone, but it works also as a text messenger, doesn't it? Anybody here on it?

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[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

If you ever do get your multimessenger working again and you sign on to the jabber network with your ljusername@livejournal.com and your LJ password as the password, it'll automatically bring up your flist and I'm online on that most weekend evenings and a lot of evenings in the week too.

I also have Skype and it works quite well as a text chat thing too, though it has a bit of lag. You just right click your contact's name and choose "start chat" instead of "start call". I'm not often on Skype but if you let me know when you'll be online, I can probably be there!

Intriguing.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Pidgin doesn't support Jabber, but it does support something called XMPP, which seems to be the same thing? Unfortunately, when I try to sign on using that protocol it asks me for a shitload of info. I don't even know what password to use - the same as my LJ password?

Okay...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I seem to have made it work. Yay! Suddenly there are lots of new people on my buddy list. *g*

Re: Okay...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yup! I CAN SEE YOU! But you appear to be away from your keyboard right now as you haven't answered me bugging you yet. ;)