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Might be relieved with some meebo, an AJAX-based instant messaging web application that supports ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN. Unless, of course, you’re in our civil service and IDA filters every single internet plugin known to man before any web content reaches your terminal.

Created by three Stanford alum, one who I recognise from CS-teaching days. What’s really interesting are their progress reports and descriptions of occasional newbie mistakes documented on their blog, including things like scrambling to find new servers to cope with the overload, realising public issues on privacy in taking IM account passwords, applying for a Verisign cert… Fascinating stuff to watch develop.