A few of you might remember back to the old IRC server (irc.comowireless.net) we had running in Como when I lived next to Adam. It was good because at the time we were all kind of dispersed, with Adam and I living in Como, Mark, Em and Rich, and Hale were all in South Perth; Steve was in Doubleview with his brother; Carrie, Radford and Jack were in the hills and undoubtably others were elsewhere.

The server got shut down when Adam and I moved into Sandgate along with Steve. Around that time we also got our laptops, and found that it was a pain (we're lazy, I know) to have to remember to fire up IRC each time we went either to or from the office. It died a natural death.

Carrie and I were reminiscing the other day about how it was cool having a place you could "drop in" and there was a good chance that you'd find someone to chat with. As she said, many a movie night was organised through the IRC server. I have suspend working fine on my laptop, and XChat will automatically connect if I leave it open - when I go to work or come home and connect to the network it will resume my IRC session.

This got me thinking, and installing. I'm running an new IRC server on Falcon, my Sun Ultra 5. You can connect to it at irc.lambie.org if you want to join in. The channel #yoyoma is where I'll be.

I have reservations about how stable my ADSL link will be, so if it does prove popular, I'll move the service onto Prime, our webserver for work. This is more of an experiment to see if anyone actually thinks it's worthwhile. It may be that now we've all grown up and gotten real jobs we don't have time to sit on IRC during the day. For me it was more of a window in the background that I'd check every hour or so - people could leave messages there.

If you need a decent Windows IRC client, check out mIRC. I used to use this when I was a Windows pleb ;)