Surreal. Objects really look closer in mirror, particularly if they drive fast, zoom past to come at a standstill after hitting a pole. Add to that in front of the place you live in.
On a serious note, I’ve been looking into the sources of Exodus (a Windows Jabber/XMPP client) as a means to refresh my brains about the protocol formerly known as Jabber. I noticed that the dev-crew solely focusses on developing the program using the latest of latests Borland compilers, meaning that I miss out. Originaly, the late PGMillard (+, Wikipedia) wrote Exodus for the D5-D7 compilers: around September last year, I was able to compile the sources1 but haven’t been able to do so, since March this year. I back-ported the Exodus this week, and the sources are now (once again) compatible with my compiler. Earlier this week I added the latest changes to my version and I will continue to monitor the changes in the official branch.
Talking about Jabber and XMPP, the only thing that blocks real adoption is the fact that some client implementations are rather shoddy so to say (it’s getting better though): however, the Jabber daemons are actually good and rock solid and fit nicely in any company structure. Server-to-server communication is a snap and works flawlessly out-of-the-box. If you need to separate messenger communication on the Intranet from communication on the Internet, you can’t go wrong on Jabber. It’s open source too, XMPP is an IETF standard, plus it’s longer around than the current (propriety) messenger protocols.
Oh and for those who missed it: Now might be a good time to look for a tin foil hat.
1 Due to an excusable mistake I lost those original sources, hence the backporting.