Capitalizing on all of Jim's hard work, I stole...err, borrowed his AIM chatbot code to hack up my own chatbot.

Jim leveraged the very nice perl Net::OSCAR AIM APIs, which makes it very easy to write up an AIM chatbot.

In the future I will use the bot to do exciting things like, well, I don't really know, but it'll be great. For now the bot responds to a few simple commands, one of which will let you read the latest post here at bitterpill.org. So instead of reloading this page every day for a month or so waiting for a post, you can send a simple IM chat command to see that I haven't posted. Ah technology, it really is making our lives better.

Send an AIM message to mwilkiebot for loads of hot bot on bot action.

Send an AIM message to N4CHL1N to chat up Jim's bot.

Jim uses the Acme::Wabby APIs to make for some interesting bot conversation.