@DMA57361 this is for you:

howdy

hey @RandolphPotter

@studiohack congrats on your vote

thank you @RandolphPotter!

@studiohack (I voted for you, btw)

really? thanks! @RandolphPotter

:-)

hello @KronoS

sorry, my eyes are still recovering from an epic migraine so I'm a little slow today

its all good @RandolphPotter - to quote @IvoFlipse, we're gentle here :P

thanks ... I'm a recovering IRC addict though :-)

so if you're too gentle I might stay

:-)

haha

hey @RandolphPotter how ya doin?

waves to @RandolphPotter

@KronoS Been better but good now thanks

@MarkSzymanski waves back

currently working on a SSD blog post

@RandolphPotter besides migraine anything else botherin ya?

@KronoS Not really ... got a bit of a bugbear with one of my vendors who take two months to answer emails, but aside from that, pretty good

well that's good

and I need to find a way to reduce the brightness on a 27" iMac in Windows mode

which is how I got the migraine in the first place

so assuming I want to help a bit more in answering questions here, and assuming all I've done since I started is refresh the Unread Questions page (sorted by newest tab), what would you suggest?

is this off-topic?

@studiohack Not technically

it's a hardware and software question

yeah, it was so weird/interesting, I just had to ask

it certainly is weird - wonder why they want to do that

when you can use Skype or Google Voice

some of us can't use Google Voice (yet)

@studiohack: The former costs money, the OP might want a free solution.

yeah...well I'm off for now! cya all!

later @studiohack

@studiohack ciao

@RandolphPotter you can try searching the "tags" section to find questions that match what you know

@KronoS I think I already earned a Windows 7 badge that way :-)

@KronoS But it's a good place to start, thanks

Whoo! :D

About can finally do what it's supposed to ^^

@MarkSzymanski o_0 care to explain?

@KronoS: About is an IRC bot I made.

github.com/mrman208/About

And, It can now do what it's supposed to: store and retrieve user information.

good job

Thanks ^^

grats

Thanks, @RandolphPotter ^^

I had an eggdrop bot back in the day

Cool.

wow that takes me back

Heh.

then I ran a heavily modified mIRC session which I also used for my own typing, which made people think I was not human

Cool XD

of course, that notion persists to this day :-)

Hehe.

darn CAPTCHA codes

Mine connects on it's own.

IRC bots are dead simple to write in Ruby.

IRC bots should be dead simple anyway, now that we have proper languages

Yeah.

it wasn't always so

but I'm rambling and you knew that