---
title: "I love it when Dave invokes Murphy."
date: 2002-08-16T23:45:08-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/08/16/ooobda/
author: Les Orchard
---

# I love it when Dave invokes Murphy.

<p>Just read this <a href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/08/16#When:4:37:18PM">on Scripting News</a>:<blockquote><i>Heads-up, some time in the next few hours (Murphy-willing) we're going to release tcp.im, which allows Radio and Frontier to be an instant messaging client or server (either can be either).</i></blockquote>Okay, this is insanely great, or at least has gigantic potential to be great.  I just hope <a href="http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article/0,,10817_1446781,00.html">ActiveBuddy</a> doesn't swoop in and claim to have invented the whole kit and kaboodle.  Barring that, I can see a whole suite of new P2P apps with desktop servers, kicked off by the <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserLand">UserLand</a> crowd.</p>
<p>This makes me want to find a decent machine for Radio to run on and give it a fair amount of attention again.  I wish it weren't so demanding of my poor iBook.   But I <i>do</i> need excuses to convince myself to invest in a new <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/TiBook?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">TiBook</font></span>...  </p>
<!--more-->
shortname=ooobda