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How an update to my facebook page is made:

I linked my twitter account to facebook so tweets show up as updates and I don't need to spend any time updating two accounts with the same worthless information.

twitter --> facebook

I update twitter through IM. Because official IM from twitter is technically broken, I have to use excla.im which sends updates for me.

excla.im --> twitter --> facebook

I don't have access to IM from anywhere but home, so I use a handy interface to IM from using IRC. This is called bitlbee. I connect to an IRC server running bitlbee

bitlbee --> excla.im --> twitter --> facebook

Like any good geek, I connect to IRC through the irssi client

irssi --> bitlbee --> excla.im --> twitter --> facebook

And of course, I'm keeping irssi running through screen on a shell account.

screen --> irssi --> bitlbee --> excla.im --> twitter --> facebook

And how does one connect to a shell account? Why through an SSH client, of course! (In my case either Putty or SecureCRT.)

securecrt --> screen --> irssi --> bitlbee --> excla.im --> twitter --> facebook

All of this so that my facebook page can tell you how I watched "No Reservations" last night and it was Chicago and it was a reasonably good episode.

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As an aside, if I'm using Putty, that means I'm running Portable Putty off of my flash drive which should probably be described as:

usb --> putty --> screen --> irssi --> bitlbee --> excla.im --> twitter --> facebook