Friday Two
Here’s two questions from today’s Friday Fives.
What is your nearest lake or river? The nearest body of water is the River Charles, which is less than 1200 feet away from both home and work. And I’m a mile and a half from the ocean at Boston Harbor.
How many people are on your instant messenger buddy list? As of right now, I use Trillian to sign onto 10 different IM systems:
3 Jabber 2 IRC 1 AOL 1 Yahoo! 1 MSN 1 ICQ 1 Rendezvous
I presently have 495 people in my buddy list.
105 former colleagues at Sapient, 100 people at Optaros, 61 close friends from various places, 54 present or former DargonZine writers, 44 friends through LiveJournal, 37 clients, 36 Where’s Georgers, 25 former coworkers at Bus Innovation, 13 friends of friends, and 20 other people.
By IM system, they break down as follows:
259 AOL 140 Jabber 57 Yahoo! 22 Microsoft 16 ICQ 1 IRC
Of course, some of those numbers are a bit off. The Jabber number includes a lot of people I have never explicitly friended (mostly Optaros staff), and the IRC number is short by a number of folks.