The weather forecast on the front page is permanently stuck on a forecast for Spencer, TN. This is because the XML weather generator which I use is broken. It stopped working around the time I was at Fall Creek Falls on Memorial Day weekend. Hopefully it’ll get fixed soon. It seems like it is down more often than it is up. I thought it’d be kinda cool to show weather, but it doesn’t want to cooperate.
Speaking of nerdy stuff like XML, MSN messenger has the most IM users of any free IM service in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. I read that here. I thought that fact was interesting. I never really thought about who uses what messenger in different parts of the world. I guess non Americans nix AIM for obvious reason. In China they use ICQ alot. What I’ve really been noticing lately is the decline of ICQ. Way back in 2000, when I discovered ICQ, many of my friends were using it. Now hardly anyone is online anymore. Except for the occassional 1 or 2 people who I know who still use it. I haven’t added anyone to my contact list in a year.
AIM will see a decline when users finally figure out it is an inferior program. Right now the only thing AIM has going for it now is its vast number of users. Remember Netscape vs. IE? At one point Netscape had the greatest number of users. Then came Internet Explorer on all copies of Windows OS’s and the tide turned. With XP coming with a copy of MSN/Windows Messenger on it, AIM will see a decline soon.