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I used to leave adium open with all my stuff. I now really only turn it on here and there. I just found so much of the time I would end up chatting with people and wasn't getting as much done. It's sad how much a 10 minute conversation would then have me on youtube or some other dumb site surfing away. Next thing I know even though the conversation was 10 minutes I didn't get back into a rhythm for another 30 or so minutes.
I have skype and have used it here and there. I for a long time used it when I was working with a guy that was serious about getting shit done. We would generally just have our headsets on and for an hour or so in the morning really work on things. At times it wasn't that we were saying anything. Just that at a moments notice could be like...hey send me this or what's the status with this. etc.
The spam on icq I do like Greenie and once a day just ignore and block a group of new people. The way it is shown in adium it doesn't really bug me.
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