You know what I’d like to do? Be upstairs monitoring the buggy old HP desktop I’m trying to clean from an unidentifiable infection, and play Battleship with my son as he half-watches a TV show with his sister that he’s seen before. Both of us using 770’s of course (we’re inching ever closer towards that second unit).

Sure, there are lots more interactive two-player games, but we’re partial to Battleship. And playing over a networkagainst each other instead of the computer would be a lot more fun.

I’ve played chess this way, as an add-on in an IM program. That was a little too interactive, too intense, to mix in with work and I dropped it. But Battleship ought to be about perfect. I wonder: Will Gaim take add-ons like this?