Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Migrating MSN contacts

I have now changed the email address associated with my MSN account. It is now the same email address as I use for Jabber messaging: geir-tore at jabber dot no.

So now I can be contacted with the same address on email, Jabber (incl. Google Talk) and MSN.

_Update:_
It seems to be some trouble with changing the email address associated with the MSN account. I can log on to MSN with Messenger and my entire contact list is in place, but the online/offline status doesn't seem to be updating. I have sent an email to MSN Support about the issue, but I honestly doesn't expect a reply anytime soon ;-)
Let's hope that it resolves itself soon.

_Update #2:_
It looks like the online/offline status are propagating correctly now. It started to look right yesterday, after I sent out an email to all the persons on my contact list about the change, but I have confirmed that at least one of them didn't update anything manually so there is somehow an automatic update process here.

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Why use Unicode?

Allan Odegaard, the developer of [TextMate](http://macromates.com), has put up a great post about the advantages of [Unicode](http://www.unicode.org/). I must say that this is mandatory reading for those who are producing text files (especially html), and still are unaware of the benefits from using Unicode.

You can read the full post [here](http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/09/18/handling-encodings-utf-8/).