An interesting development in Google Apps makes it trivial to put a little box on the website allowing people to chat with me when I'm logged in. I'm going to try it out for awhile and see if it proves of any great interest. I'd like to be able to style it a bit more. The blue of the chat doesn't mix that well with the rest of the design here. I'd also like to shrink the width just a bit. In any case, on select pages of the site you'll see a box like this...

If you're a Google Apps user and would like one of these for yourself, here are Google's instructions.

Would you like to chat with your website or blog visitors? The new Chatback
features allows your visitors to chat with you without needing to install Google Talk or even have a Google account. You can create a Chatback badge and easily paste the badge code into your site. To create a badge (including some personalized settings), visit http://www.google.com/talk/service/a/your-domain.com/badge/New. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.