This XML was recently caught exposing a bug in xmpp.py:

<presence type="unavailable" from="user@gmail.com/resource" to="yahoo.transport"
xmlns:ses="yahoogoogle:session" ses:terminated="true"/>

also seen here and here.

The question remains: Are Google and Yahoo up to something?

I’m busy developing the irc-transport for xmpp.py and the debuging output is coloured via ANSI escape sequences. This works great on a linux terminal, or via PuTTY, but not so great in a win32 console. I searched quite hard on Google for a ‘modern’ ansi.sys or ansi.com replacement, but couldn’t find anything.

So here’s my attempt at making something work in win32.

The executable will spawn a copy of the default command shell (from COMPSEC), unless you give it something to run on the command line. Basically it pump’s stdout and stderr, and parses the ANSI escape codes into win32 console API calls. For quick development I wrote it up in c#, but it looks like some of the .net console async pipe handling code blocks badly, so I may end up porting it to plain c.

I’ve just been doing some coding for the irc-transport for the xmpppy project (now with vcard/whois and channel listing support!) when I came across Lobby4Linux in a channel topic. I think this guy’s blog is great!

In other news Gareth has been working on the G8 REBOOT site. I suggest you swing by and help Make Poverty History.

I’ve just noticed that Gareth picked up on the Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D. article, and that Mark Shuttleworth is behind Canonical/Ubuntu. I also noticed that Rands links to Joel Spolsky.

Man what a small world!

Things I’m busy with in the Jabber world:

• irc transport
• msn transport
• Psi

So again more mailing lists.

I’m watching the msn transport for file transfer and status messages. The irc transport I’ve been watching for ages now, and I help Mike with patches for the transport.

I’ve been using Psi for a long while now, and I’m starting to get bored with the slow release cycle. So I’ve been trying out alternate builds. I’m also planning on doing daily CVS builds, and MUC builds too.

okay, so I’ve been very quiet over the past few weeks after struggling with ipsec. I’ve actually been doing a hang of a lot of things, which I will proceed to post individually.