{"id":2669,"date":"2008-10-18T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2008-10-18T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:44:43","slug":"this-should-be-the-official-im-client-of-downtown-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/this-should-be-the-official-im-client-of-downtown-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"This should be the official IM client of Downtown Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logopidgin.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2670\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"logopidgin\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logopidgin.png?resize=107%2C185\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>One of the things I needed to do this morning was download IM software.\u00a0 Out-of-towners with freelancing work want to talk to me next week, and I replied, &#8220;Sounds great, if you prefer IM to phone, just let me know what network you&#8217;re on, and I&#8217;ll install an IM client so I can talk to you.&#8221;\u00a0 So I went out and got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\"><strong>Pidgin<\/strong><\/a>, a freeware IM client that connects to just about every network out there &#8211; AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, and many more.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the most highly-rated freeware products out there.<\/p>\n<p>Being a Downtown Memphian, there&#8217;s just something about this software that feels very&#8230; familiar.\u00a0 It seems like something I see many, many times every day.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; for some reason I suddenly feel compelled to take the laptop to Court Square and use their free Wi-Fi to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I needed to do this morning was download IM software.\u00a0 Out-of-towners with freelancing work want to talk to me next week, and I replied, &#8220;Sounds great, if you prefer IM to phone, just let me know what network you&#8217;re on, and I&#8217;ll install an IM client so I can talk to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/this-should-be-the-official-im-client-of-downtown-memphis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This should be the official IM client of Downtown Memphis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->