I decided that I was going to start doing IRC properly this evening. After browsing all over the internet, and finding many free shell hosting sites, almost none of them actually worked. I found one called Netburst (http://netburst.zenknight.org), and decided to give it a go. After sitting in their IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/#netburst) for about an hour, some nice person started a private message with me, and within about five minutes, I had a shell. I’m now running irssi on that shell, which is a server in Norway running Debian. Hopefully, I’ll now be on IRC more often.