Being your average techie, I use a multitude of computers depending on what I want to do, or where I am. I've got a dual monitor PC in my office, a Mac laptop, a Windows laptop and a Nokia Internet Tablet. At work I have a vast number of Windows PCs that I use (being an IT teacher means you have many many computers at your disposal). Due to the large number of computers, and their different operating systems it's important I can access my information on all of them. The current buzz word for this is "living in the cloud".

To make things a bit simpler, and to give me a virtual "home" on the Internet I have a Linux server running GNU Screen. Inside that runs Irssi, the IRC client.

This setup means I can secure shell into my machine from anywhere and chat to people without having to sign in or install chat clients on every computer I want to use.

The drawback is that I get no status notifications, if someone sends me a message or tries talking to me, and I'm not looking at the SSH window at that moment, I miss out. And that's where Twitter comes in...