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1) Cos I'm at work.
2) Cos I've never managed to get it working*, and now that I'm pissed and firewalled, I can't imagine I'll have any more luck.
3) Cos every time I post here, I look at the post times, post-post, and determine that everyone else is actually asleep now - which would make IRC really suck.
In that case the answer is (after some fiddling): because my toe-rag IT department have successfully thwarted me. Bastards. :-(
(but thanks for asking!)
Why is it that they can quite successfully block me from the rest of the universe, but keeping the business-critical applications online is beyond them?
I'm blowing you kisses, irc bunnies, but I gotta do some stuff. I'm probably going to see you there Saturday night, US time (my Sunday morning), if anyone's around.