Recently I picked up a USB drive and I have put some portable apps on it including Cross-platform Portable Firefox, Gaim, and PortaPuTTY. I can pop my USB drive into any computer (campus lab, work, etc.) and have all of my bookmarks, IM contacts, terminal sessions, etc. It’s been really nice.

Normally I hide the “groups” in my IM clients. I think they are distracting and annoying. Gaim doesn’t have a feature to hide groups and it doesn’t let you create “meta-contacts” for people with contacts in different groups. So I decided to move of my contacts into a single group to make Gaim look more to my taste.

Something didn’t work right. I think that ICQ contacts were deleted rather than moved. So some people on ICQ weren’t on my list anymore. And then to compound the problem, my home IM client is set to ignore any ICQ messages from contacts that were not on my list. I finally figured this out today when I was using Gaim and a couple of people asked why I had been ignoring them for days.

So if you have sent me some ICQ message and I haven’t responded, I am sorry. I think I have fixed the problem so go ahead and try sending again. If I am still not responding, send a email or something.

Thanks.