Digdilem

For no apparent reason, it started beeping and the magic smoke started escaping... Been running fine for about eight months, PAT tested fine when bought from Ebuyer, I had another bought at the same time which I've now taken out of use, just in case.

Luckily there was somebody in the office at the time who was able to disconnect it and take it outside before it caught fire proper - as you can see the transformer's pretty much toasted. If you've got one the same, might be worth looking a bit suspicious at it.

My irc scripts database got found by the scum, those worthless selfish bastards who think that they have a right to push their adverts for counterfeit drugs onto every corner of the world, using my resources to do it.

Been busy in the evenings writing a new script database. This was initially to make it easier for me to make my own scripts publically available, but also to give a better database for Xchat scripts than the official one (which is full of dead links and looks awful). The official site also, in a somewhat short-sighted attempt to stop spam, refused to allow people to add scripts to it if they didn't have any reverse DNS. As many thousands of people don't have rdns (including myself at that time), I couldn't add my own scripts anyway.

This morning I was in the office at work when an electricity pole inspector called for his ten-year check. I showed him where the pole should be and explained it doesn't exist any more. He corrects his records and toddles off. I think no more of it.

A couple more Xchat scripts this week.

Hunting - a rewrite for Xchat of an Eggdrop script by Nerfbendr which allows folks to !hunt and !fish. It gives them a chance to set and break records and compete with others. Turned out to be quite popular and is kinda addictive. I had to add some basic anti-spam stuff since a dutch lad (Hi Achiel) spammed it 300 times...