After a long break, today I planned to hang around on some of my favorite channels on IRC. I normally use xchat to do IRC. But this time, my xchat was replaced by xchat-gnome. It inherited all the settings from my previous xchat configuration. When I invoked xchat-gnome, it tried ...

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After a long thoughts, I have settled with the IRC nick prav33n for FreeNode. It was not registered luckily and I have registered it. Because of the unavailabilty of my usual nick 'rocky' on FreeNode, I was forced to do this. As a result, I am now prav33n on GimpNet ...

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Here some IRC snippets that I have recently read from bash.org

<anamexis> oh man
<anamexis> I was opening a coke, right
--> Beefpile (~mbeefpile@cloaked.wi.rr.com) has joined #themacmind
<anamexis> and it exploded
<anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard
<anamexis> but I got it away just in time ...

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Laziness to type has given birth to a lot of things. Canonical abbreviation was mostly the first among all. When people first start to interact with the community on chat, IRC, mailing list, etc., they are mostly confused with terms like "IMHO", "HTH", "RTFM", etc. I do remeber the first ...

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