The code for the web calendar I linked to before is available now, info in this blog: http://www.lyricswithoutmelody.org/archives/000276.html
Test it, submit bugs in the hula bugzilla!

Rejoice all ye people, for thou are not longer bound to MSN messenger, AIM or whatever other proprietary protocol to talk to your friends.
Google has announced yet another of their 'beta' services, http://talk.google.com.
It is a jabber based service, which makes it easy to talk with people on every platform. Google also launched their own client for Win32 only so far, which, as an extra, has real voice support, a'la Skype etc. Hopefully clients supporting the voice part on other platforms will appear soonish too. If you want to talk to me, I'm datadevil on gmail.com.

Hula is getting a new web interface, and it kicks ass, as this (flash) demo shows: http://nat.org/2005/august/hula.html
Can't wait to check out the javascript and CSS that powers all that AJAX interaction and css fades. Pay attention to the sides of the calendar, where it kinda disapears using probably a layer with a transparent gif or png.

UPDATE: there is a new movie, showing that it already looks even nicer:
http://primates.ximian.com/~gasman/hulavideo.html