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My Drupal IRC bot.module received a new release today, bringing it to 6.x-1.1:

• bot_seen ping prevention matched inside strings; now only word boundaries.
• #284666: We now use preg_quote() for various nickname escaping.
• #349245: bot_tell doesn't consume username whitespace (thanks drewish).
• #356003: bot_tell sorts queued messages by oldest first (thanks litwol).
• #343245: Better regex for usernames like betz--; supports betz---- now.
• #338723: Missing decode_entities() on project statuses (thanks RobLoach).
• #313025: Better regex for log filtering to prevent substring matches.
• #300206: Better factoid-ignoring of tell-like messages (thanks RobLoach).
• #275042: Randomized messages now centralized in bot_randomized_choice().
• #274888: Move all INSERTs and UPDATEs to use drupal_write_record().
• #218577: bot_tell.module added (thanks Rob Loach). Additions/changes:
  • pending message queue now exists to remove SELECT on every message.
  • received messages use format_interval(), not a date (thanks litwol).
• bot_factoid: PM a factoid with "BOTNAME: tell <who> about <factoid>".
• #190825: Get URL to current logged discussion with "BOTNAME: log pointer?"
• bot_name_regexp() now exists for matching inside a regular expression.
  • #117876: if bot has a nick clash, it now responds to both nicks.
  • #184015: bot name with non-word characters failed regexp addressing.
• #137171: bot_karma.module added (thanks walkah/Rob Loach). Additions:
  • patch supported only words: committed version supports phrases.
  • if someone tries to karma themselves, the response is customizable.
  • drupal_write_record() is your friend; get used to using it!
  • "BOTNAME: karma foo?" is required to prevent bad parsing.
  • highest/lowest karmas are available at example.com/bot/karma.
  • terms less than 3 and more than 15 characters are ignored.
• #267560: OS-specific newlines broke comparisons (thanks Gurpartap Singh).
• #245610: bot_agotchi greeting triggers now customizable (thanks Alan Evans).
• #184032: ignore improper hook_help implementations (thanks John Morahan).
• #229880: bot_factoid stopwords were case sensitive (thanks John Morahan).
• #187137: Drupal 7 style concats, and other style fixes (thanks dmitrig01).
• #167097: fixed undefined index and better host check (thanks czarphanguye).
• #142812: auto reconnect and retry are now configurable (Morbus/Shiny).

I've also recently taken over maintenance of Node Adoption, which I've upgraded and released as 6.x-1.0: "Node Adoption allows you to automatically reassign nodes created by a deleted user to another user of your choice. Similarly, a form is provided to change ownership of all nodes from one user to another at any time. Node Adoption was originally maintained by Mark Dickson (ideaoforder) and sponsored by The Chicago Technology Cooperative. As of Druapl 6.x, Node Adoption is maintained by Morbus Iff."

Those who have ever read my emails may know, love, or harbor resentment to, my random signatures. Now 81 entries long, I'm always on the lookout for phrases or words that titillate me in as few words as possible: 58 characters is the largest signature length I've saved. Shrinking an idea or emotion down to that many characters or less is a bit like Perl Golf, another game I enjoy.

<dopry> hey Morbus, how's it going... rough evening/morning?
<Morbus> nah, not at all.
<dopry> Ok.. You just seemed to have a chip on the old shoulder...
<Morbus> dopry: nah. not at all.
<Morbus> well, it's quite possible i've had a chip on my shoulder for so long that it's part of the shoulder now.
<eaton> that's an excellent motto.
<Morbus> "my chip has been there so long, it's part of my shoulder now"
<Morbus> no wait.
<Morbus> that's not poetic enough'
<Morbus> my chip has been there so long, it's no longer on, but is.
<Morbus> hrm. needs the word shoulder to associate though.
<eaton> "It's quite possible I've had a chip on my shoulder so long that it's part of the shoulder."
<Morbus> mottos are short and lyrical.
<Morbus> my chip's been there so long, it's no longer on, but is, my shoulder.
<Morbus> hrm.
<Morbus> no, that's not good either.
<Morbus> ooh! i goti t!
<Morbus> "i've no more shoulders, only chips"
<Morbus> now *that's* a good one.

82! 82 signatures! Ah ah ah!

I coulda swore I had posted this before, but from September 20th, 2001. Lines have been combined for readability:

<Morbus> you know, i'm so mad at kelloggs. they have chocolate frosted flakes, right? and they had a box at this market basket in town. so it was the ONLY flipping box. and after i got it home, i discovered why. the damn thing was like three months stale. but i still ate it, and i still loved it. but the stupid store never got them back
<Morbus> so i email kellogs. i'm like "yo bitches, gimme some cocoa"... they email me back and they're like "please talk to your manager". they thought i was some stock boy complaining about not getting a shipment in. i was like "whhhaa?" so then i went to mycereal.com and made my own cereal. it was frosted flakes, cocoa frosted flakes, lucky charms marshmallows, and some chocoloate marshmallows
<Morbus> i called it "indigestos".
<Morbus> i tell ya, it was the best damn cereal ever.
<Mishka> that sounds so gross
<djc> mmmm
<Morbus> no way, man, it was awesome. so flipping good.
<djc> how mcuh?
<Morbus> one serving (which are huuuge) was enough for like three days of sleepliess nights
<Morbus> well, cos i got all the sinful crap, it was like 20 bucks for seven servings.
<Morbus> but worth it man, worth it.
<djc> hhaaha
<mnickel> COOL
<djc> thats great
<Mishka> you americans are weird
<djc> i want my own cereal!
<Morbus> now, it looks like the site's closed. that sucks.
<Morbus> i only got in because i got a secret code.
<Morbus> well, you wanna hear my character for indigestos? see. actually, i wanted to make an all marshmallow cereal. but get this, mycereal.com said my cereal wasn't healthy enough and i had to pick some other shit. laughed my ass off. so anyways, the flippign character would be this pirate, who would go around to toehr cereals stealing thier marshmallows. and there'd be a prize in the cereal.
<djc> haha
<djc> cool
<djc> like a treasure!
<Morbus> the package would say "arrrr! hey kids? getting sick? try this?" and ripping open the pouch would be like a handful of normal cereal to sprinkle on your marshmallows
<djc> hahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
<Morbus> it'd be fuckign awesome
<djc> dude
<mnickel> rotflmao!!!!
<djc> i am laughing my ass off here
<Mishka> oh my .....
<mnickel> dude, you are fricken' hilarious!!
<djc> +1
<djc> thats good stuff
<mnickel> Morbus++

In order to test the stability of an IRC bot written as a Drupal module, I needed to get something useful running relatively soon so that I could watch it over a week of normal usage. As such, the first complete bot.module plugin has landed in Drupal CVS, which simply reports the titles of drupal.org nodes. In a development channel like #drupal, we're constantly mentioning issue URLs for followups, patch testing, sanity replicators, etc.. This module spits the issue title to prevent wasted clicks to a topic you know nothing about. Running live on #drupal as I type.