Dating Design Patterns

I have been spending a lot of time looking into various software design patterns, so when I saw this on Thinkgeek.com I couldn’t help but laugh.

Christmas is almost here. What a great gift for your single geek friends.

Web Messenger

I did not know there was a web version of MSN Messenger. It doesn’t have everything that the desktop version has (it only focuses on chat) but if your company has blocked the MSN Messenger ports this is a great work around.

Actually the company that I work for blocked this site but didn't block the MSN Messenger ports.

Chat on!

IM the Encarta Server

I saw this on Chris Sells' blog. What you do is add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contract list and then you can chat with the Encarta server by asking it questions. The questions are somewhat limiting, however the idea of chatting with a computer is very interesting. Being that you are using an application that is primarily used to communicate with humans, this has an AI feel to it. It is very cool.

Example Questions:

• What is the population of the earth?
• Solve x+2=5