My lack of sleep over the past two days caught up with me today. I passed out for a good 12 hours or so and was finally up at about 4:15 this afternoon. It’s like embedding a basketball into a wall, attaching it to your head via bungee cord, and then walking away from the [...]
I like how I have blog posts with three main topics and the semicolonated (is that a word?) titles. Let’s get right to it.
The past couple of days, this very blog has had an incredible spike in traffic. After investigating I’ve found that it’s likely related to the recent release of Pidgin 2.2.0. You know… [...]
Sean Egan posted an interesting news item last week discussing upcoming UI changes due out in Pidgin 2.1.0, which was scheduled to be released the next day but they apparently couldn’t get a few bugs worked out. I like the new conversation window design with the “Infopane” and I’m glad the developers decided to include [...]
The Pidgin developers are on the ball. They released Pidgin 2.0.2 and I’ve countered with a new version of my unofficial MySpaceIM-enabled Win32 build. This one has version 0.7 of Jeff Connelly’s protocol plugin. (A lot more stuff actually works in the newer version. Still no word on if the login process still fails on [...]
You folks may remember that a while back I posted an unofficial build of Pidgin with MySpaceIM support. I’ve compiled newer versions of Pidgin and Jeff Connelly’s MySpaceIM protocol plugin and packaged it up.
If you were getting a 260 error message whenever you tried to login before, it’s still an unfixed bug. If your [...]
Update 17 September 2007: This is an outdated post. There’s no MySpaceIM/Pidgin problem anymore. Pidgin 2.2.0 includes MySpaceIM, go download that if you’re having trouble.
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Or more specifically, why I can’t log in. My password is longer than 8 characters. For some reason, you can only login if your password is 8 characters or less. I’m [...]
