bitlbee
Thursday Oct 18  6:40:52 2012

This week I have started using bitlbee on a regular basis. I had
tried it for a short while several months ago but I hadn't decided 
become a full time user. There were two main reasons for that: Firs
I was too used to my graphical clients (usually amsn and occasional
emesene) and second, I always used centerim (formerly known as
centericq) on the cli.

So what happened that made me change my mind? First, I suddenly
stopped using gui clients and exclusively used centerim. I do love
centerim but then having an irc client 24/7 (thanks to irssi proxy)
thought that it would be a great idea to use bitlbee.

The process was absolutely painless because instead of installing t
program I connected to one of the public services. So simply

/connect im.bitlbee.org

And then once connected type help. And you are good to go.