Over at Lifehacker they've come up with yet another novel way to manage your finances: Over IM. Adam Pash has written a cool tutorial on how to build an AIM BudgetBot, which makes entering your income and expenses and generating reports as simple as sending an instant message. The BudgetBot is based on a Perl script, which takes some setting up and tweaking, but once it's set up you can add that $150 car repair bill, for example, to your budget just by sending "150 car" to the bot. The coolest thing about it, though, is that once you've got it set up you can send the bot text messages from your cell phone, which means when you're out on the town you can check to see if you can afford those new shoes, and immediately record the purchase before you forget. Head over to Lifehacker to read the tutorial and grab Adam's script.