Since you can never have enough IM/phone clients on enough networks, I’ve now signed up for Gizmo. I’m mathie_wossname. Hopefully this one won’t be as much of a resource hog when it’s idle as the Skype client on Mac OS X appears to be. OK, it’s fine when you’ve got 4.5GB RAM, but it seems to make my laptop (with a mere 1.5GB RAM) slow to a crawl. For example:

239 Skype        2.5%  2:08.76  17   268   430  22.0M  28.3M  30.8M   434M

My system has only been alive for about 3 hours, and I’ve not actually used Skype for anything yet… Still, it’s managed to consume over 2 minutes of CPU time for, well, nothing much. Maybe the rest of the Interweb is routing calls through my desktop as I type?

OK, moan over about Skype.

If you want to get in contact with me I can be found on the following services:

• Skype, as mathie_wossname.
• Gizmo, as mathie_wossname.
• AOL instant messenger, as math1e. Yes, that’s a 1 (one) instead of an ‘i’. How l33t, eh?
• Jabber, as mathie@woss.name.
• Email, as mathie@woss.name.

I’ve a really bad habit of not setting away messages when I’m busy, and just ignoring people if I don’t want to switch out of the context I’m in. Leave me a message and I’ll get back to you pretty quickly.