From what Chris tells me, you really don’t want to mess with me on AIM Fight . (My screenname is “anildash”, in case you want to tussle.)...

One of the great thing about having dorky friends is that they come up with ideas that even I recognize as being too geeky for human consumption. Such as a d...

Here’s today’s ha-ha funny AIM conversation. Woman I Am Very Fond Of: \ | / \ \ // // \ ######## /// \ ### ### // -- ## ## -- -- ## squish ## -- -- ## ## -...

With apologies to dialup users, please find below a gallery of buddy icons from some of the people who’ve sent me messages in the past few months:...

Geek Poetry ? Inspired by absence and distance? Hmm… I’m but a server, awaiting request, Proffering pages at your behest. Since your state persists, I...

Shannon talks about multiple-AIM-window conversation confusion , and mentions that she actually talked about the person she was talking to . I gotta say, I...

Behold! My terrifying new buddy icon. And my usual buddy icon makes a repeat appearance:...

BotSpot reviews and lists a hell of a lot of Bots for your enjoyment. And over here is another long list of bots. Fun!...

My former co-worker John Wehr has put together a LiveJournal AIM bot for posting through AIM. You know what to do....

BotMania Continues! Myles has put together some new AIM Bots, a family named MylesDBot , MylesDBot2 , and MylesDAnnoying . These Bots are pretty danged u...

I told you there’d be more bots . Meet MemePusher . He only works with MetaFilter right now, but there’s more to come. All of this courtesy of Andre , b...

Of course, my true love, as always, are AIM bots, so I was pleased to find out that there is an AIM Googlebot . His name is Googlematic, and he was made by...

So, after a few years, I reinstalled ICQ . This might explain if you just got a request for authorization to add you to my buddy list. Don’t bother approving,...

To keep you busy while I fly to Austin today, I’ll repost a joke from almost a year ago : A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich....

So, the syntax for adding a buddy to your list in AIM is: aim:addbuddy?screenname= BuddyName Go ahead, make me your buddy . A big thanks to Saima (...

I was looking back at my comments here on my blog and on the MetaFilter thread because of a few conversations with friends the past few days. So, I hacked...

As I was saying to David after he pointed these out, don’t these Buddy Icons from the Beastie Boys’ site just show that the Beasties are intent on hoarding...

Interesting that, since Justin Frankel made the AIMazing plugin, most of the ads I’ve seen on AIM have been for WinAmp. Subtle dig at him? Of course, that woul...

I didn’t see anyplace that people had documented the URL format for Napster , so I thought I’d post what I found: A sample URL is nap:search?artist=artname...

Kinda funny… Justin Frankel (author of Winamp ) has made a little program called AIMazing . It is a visualization plug-in for WinAmp that covers up the ads...

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one thinking about combining AIM and Napster …...

Half-developed idea : Hack the Apache source code and one of the open-source AIM clones and make a way of having a shared folder attached to everyone’s IM...

I’m on AIM pretty much all the time (go ahead, check– my name is AnilDash ) but it’s annoying how each new version of AIM includes more ads, more useless st...

So I added this Human Click thing to the page, it’s an interesting idea. Kind of like combining ICQ or AIM with a referrer log. When I’m running the client o...