You know, when I first became interested in Jabber/XMPP, the thing that drew me to it so much was the concept of the transports to AIM, ICQ, etc.  Why?  Because it meant, instead of having to remember my passwords and accounts every time I switched to a new client, I could now store all of that on my server and log into one single location, my personal Jabber/XMPP server.  In general, this has worked out well, I do not log directly into AIM/ICQ/etc unless I'm testing something or don't have another choice at the time (perhaps my transport is broken, or something of that nature).

That said, lets take a look at my Adium X list of accounts at this point.  Instead of having 5 different protocol accounts listed, I have around 6 Jabber/XMPP accounts.  Home server, another external server, university private server, university engineering server, livejournal, google talk, friend's server.  So what happened here?  My original goal was to have one and only one server to connect to.  Is it because there's no XMPP transport/gateway as of yet?  No, if that were the case I would have written one by now.  Is it because a lot of these servers do not have s2s enabled?  Some of them, yes, that is the case, but that's not why I use all of them.  I can't answer why I'm now connecting to -more- accounts than I was before, completely defeating my original purpose.  I also used to have a jabber.org account listed there.  At least I pruned a couple.

Does it bother me that I log into so many accounts?  Not really.  It actually helps me keep some things in perspective while I'm developing... like the fact that I'm not the only one who does this and I should support multiple accounts in clients I might write.  It does, however, limit me from being interested in clients that only support one account to connect to.  Note that this is one of the other big reasons for wanting to centralize everything.  If I ran into a client I liked that only could connect to one server, I could use it and be happy with it.  Eh.

So anyway, no takers so far on the "anyone want to help with the Pys?".  Oh well.  I'll get back to them at some point.