{"id":22126,"date":"2003-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/back-on-irc\/"},"modified":"2003-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T06:00:00","slug":"back-on-irc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/back-on-irc\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on IRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I used to frequent some chat rooms using IRC (I used the program mIRC) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undernet.org\/\">Undernet<\/a>. I would normally just go to the #japan chatroom, which was pretty fun. I met a few good people there, and they gave me some tips to help me when I moved to Japan. After I moved there, I stopped using IRC, mainly because we didn&#8217;t have unlimited Internet access. I kind of forgot about IRC.<\/p>\n<p>But recently, I downloaded a demo version for my Pocket PC called <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketirc.com\/\">Pocket IRC<\/a>, and I am back into it. It is kind of hard to type on the Pocket PC, but manageable. I joined the #japan group again, and I am surprised to see a few names I recognize. If you are ever on there and see someone named &#8220;takoyaki&#8221;, that is probably me! I usually am online about 9-10pm while <a href=\"http:\/\/bay.takoyaki.org\">Bay<\/a> is falling asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I used to frequent some chat rooms using IRC (I used the program mIRC) on the Undernet. I would normally just go to the #japan chatroom, which was pretty fun. I met a few good people there, and they gave me some tips to help me when I moved to Japan. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/back-on-irc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back on IRC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5KS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}