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September 20, 2004
Maybe available
My increased use of chat programs such as IRC and iChat leads me to worrying about what "available" actually means. In the iChat program you can set yourself to be either "available" or "away". In addition, you can also configure custom states (like "eating" or something else). However, I find that I mostly use the defaults - as do most people I guess. Now often enough signaling "available" doesn't really mean you're interested in chatting to all your buddies does it. Often I'm right in the middle of doing something when that pop-up message comes up. Of course I can choose to ignore it - but that's not "polite", so I often find myself dragged into a chat that I don't really have the time for. So, really I would need a status that reads more like "only bug me if it's really really important or if you are Steve or Russ" (just examples - don't hit me). And I'm sure as you become more well-known (i.e. famous) you get even more people just bugging you at times you're not really interested in talking to them. Oh, wait I have to go - someone wants to chat....
Posted by Matthew at September 20, 2004 08:11 PM