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My head is full of drippy goo, and the wireless network keeps flaking out on me; this combination makes it really hard to focus on getting anything done. In Twisted terms, getting dog-ass sick was a Deferred, and I’m now living through the callback.

Joy.

Small victories today…

• Got ahold of Paul McGuire during brief periods when wireless worked for both of us, and he was kind enough to share his adventureEngine.py with me; its command parser/handler seems like a great fit for what I want to do with my silly Twisted bot (to make it simultaneously less and more silly than it already is).
• Discovered that there is, in fact, an example Jabber client in the Twisted docs–it’s just not linked to on their web site. (D’oh.) I’ve managed to get it to auth (or at least it claims to have authed), but I can’t seem to get it to “hear” anything else, which it probably needs to be able to do at some point. Think my next step is to just try running a Jabber server on my laptop and see if that helps things work any better.
• Note to self: one of the lightning talk speakers today is building an all-Python Z-machine interpreter. w00t! I definitely need to chat him up at some point, as I have a deep and abiding affection for all things text adventurey.

Heading out to the NerdBooks.com party to partake in free pizza and to pick up the new edition of Python: Essential Reference. And hopefully will start feeling better at some point.

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