I just learned the chords for This Ruined Puzzle by Dashboard Confessional. I never appreciated the song that much until tonight. "But what if the pages stay pressed, the chapter's unfinished, the story's too dull to unfold? Does he ever get the girl?"
Also, I've been working on implementing a chat client for Google Talk, that will eventually be used for Oracle Beehive. I'm doing it using a library called Smack, which can be used with any XMPP chat service.