One of the joys of IRC is the opportunity to write scripts, bots and toys that are not only entirely pointless, but also sometimes quite profane. A little AI script I knocked up to integrate MegaHAL with Irssi has gone through a number of lobotamies and now has the number of every regular member of the channel in which it is resident. Those members know who they are and what the bot in question thinks of them ...

Anyway, I put the script on my Irssi script page and it seems to be quite popular. Unfortunately, I hacked the AI::MegaHAL module from CPAN, installed only half the standard MegaHAL 9.1.1 distribution and generally made what can only be described as a one-of-a-kind bot. However, I decided to make it right, and the script now has some ... installation instructions!

So if you run Irssi and want to use an AI to provide fun and games in channel, or just to talk for you when you're too lazy even to spod, then grab the script and instructions from my megahal_irssi.pl page, install it, and have lots of fun.