I don't care about using Skype. I like my regular phone. But I really love Trillian because I can IM to all different kinds of IM clients. Except Sametime. What can I do to add Sametime to Trillian?

Fortunately, programmers will be programmers and there was someone out there who also wanted to create a link between Sametime and Trillian. We're not big Trillian users here (IM is a big distraction when you're a writer), but we did find STPlugin, a Sametime plugin for Trillian.

See the link below and let us know what you think. It seems pretty full-featured. The only thing it lacks, apparently, is Sametime's private messaging capabilities. So watch what you say, and enjoy.

David Gewirtz is the author of How To Save Jobs and Where Have All The Emails Gone? For more than 20 years, he has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com and you can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/DavidGewirtz.