A Feed Reader Plugin for Pidgin

Pidgin is my favourite instant messaging client. I have been using it when it was still called gaim, mostly for Yahoo and XMPP messaging (like Twitter).

I recently discovered the Skype API Plugin which makes pidgin even more useful as we use skype chat a lot at my current work.

Now the only thing missing is a feed reader!

I am using SharpReader for my daily RSS fix, but having two different UIs pop up every now and again is beginning to be too disruptive.

Wouldn't it be great if my feed updates could be displayed in a pidgin chat window?

And no, I do not want to switch to Miranda. I am used to pidgin, and I am too old to change habits :-)

An Operating System that understands one thing: I do not want it to ever delete my data!

When it comes to the data on my machine, there is one rule that I follow: Never delete content that I have created myself!

I am trying to follow that rule by putting files that I made into a separate folder structure, onto a separate hard drive, or by copying it to gmail.

The latter sounds a bit silly, but to be honest: they all are! Why would I have to worry about not deleting content I created when there is one entity that knows for sure and should be able to take care of this on its own: the operating system.

After all, I am typing this text and the OS does know that. So why doesn't Windows go "uh, he's typing something. I'll see where he puts that and make sure it'll never get deleted. He'll like that."?

Now, will I ever write an OS? Probably not. All I can do is ask Paul or Steve to include this as a feature. Or I could get involved with Linux and develop something myself, maybe as part of gnome... I have to think about this...