Contact me. Please. Say hello, say goodbye, say anything*. I'm a shameless whore when it comes to soliciting personal email. Personal as in messages addressed to me by actual human being, as opposed to the oceans of spam trying to interest me in larger breasts, penis patches, hot Asian teens or Paris Hilton's home videos.

If you'd like to be notified each time I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is updated and maybe receive occasional ramblings, please let me know.

You can chat to me too, if you're so minded:

MSN: hungermoon AT gmail DOT com*

AIM/iChat: Shocknonstop

I made an interesting and unlikely discovery a couple of years ago when I finally bit the bullet and installed AOL Instant Messenger. No, it wasn't that I needed to go and have a bath afterwards - I anticipated that - but something more improbable. AOL Instant Messenger does not suck. Hard to credit, I know, but it's true. Quite the reverse, in fact. To say I was taken aback would be an understatement of Herculean proportions.

I no longer use either the ICQ or AIM software, having switched some while ago to the excellent multi-protocol and open source Fire, which allows me to run one client supporting ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and IRC instead of four or five individual IM clients, though for AIM I use Apple's superb iChat client. Of course to enjoy the benefits of this tool you need to be running the operating system of the gods, but if you run Windows instead you can enjoy a similar lack of clutter and load on your machine by using Trillian which does the same thing, though without the same elegance and ease of setup.

* Yes, you need to replace the AT and DOT with @ and .

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