The more astute of you may have noticed that I have added a new feature into the sidebar (its over there on the right) - which shows my current Live Messenger status. It seems to work quite nicely, showing whether I am on or offline, and my current screen name (which I use for location).

Its really easy to setup your wordpress blog, or any website to show your Live Messenger status - I did it two or three minutes. Heres the steps:

1. Make sure you have a working Live Messenger ID - download the client here
2. Go to http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.aspx and sign in with your Windows Live ID
3. Enable the setting to show your status to the web
4. Copy the appropriate code into your HTML - I copied it into sidebar.php on my Wordpress theme and wrapped in an list object so that it styled nicely.

There is a much more detailed tutorial on how to set this up over at Angus Logans blog - but honestly, if I can do it in a few minutes, then anyone can.

I look forward to hearing from you on messenger - and I hope this works for y’all!