>
> Of last night's four or so outages, only one was
>actually due to the RinkChat script, which is
>flaky but boring to fix, so you have to live with
>that until I have nothing more interesting to
>work on, like a Things People Said update, which
>is what consumed most of my attention last night.
>Or until I'm simply fed up with the thing, which
>is rapidly getting to be the case.

Would it be possible to give me access to the code and show me the "quick fixes" for when it breaks? I'm usually on way later than you, so I could try to fix it after you go to bed.

Alternately, I'm interested in learning Perl anyway, so if you could hook me up with a copy of the chatroom scripts I could take a look at them--I'm sure I wouldn't get anything "fixed" any quicker, but it'd help me out with learning Perl and it might just help everyone else out, too.