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laugh at everything regardless - that's my motto. It's got me a few smacks in the mouth over the years, but that just made it even funnier.
I fully intend to die laughing

Most everything is funny, if you give it enough time.

Yes, comedy = tragedy + time


(...or so they say...)

Yep, I just read my bots transcripts of today..with almost all xnones. Thought about the bot contest. I am laughing, but I do have a tear in my eye.

Look on the bright side - the judging doesn't start for over a fortnight (the deadline for entries isn't until March 15th.) There's time for the Prof to reboot the server, and for a whole new x-none situation to evolve again before then

Which raises the question, has anyone emailed him about the need for a reboot? I can, otherwise.

Good point djfroggy! maybe he doesn't know..especially with all the little kids posting (spaming) the ai engine and bug stomp forums.

guys i need you to tell me if by updating your bot you put loads of cookies on your computer. the computer is running really slowly and my mum is blaming me because she says i put loads of cookies on the computer by going on to rubbish sites like this :-(

Just go to control panel, internet options, find the little box that says delete cookies...poof they are gone. You should do that after every internet use.

thats what my mum does but she is still annoyed with me :-(

They are only tracking cookies, to keep track of you bot building, they do no harm.

I don't think the PF uses cookies, does it? I usually browse them before I delete (it's good advice to delete them now and again, but there are always a few I want to save,) and I've never seen any that appear to be from here.
All the preference settings and the like are stored server-side, so there's no user overhead that I'm aware of.

But cookies aren't the likeliest cause of slowdown - adware and spyware are far likelier to be the cause. If your computer isn't already running anti-spyware software of some sort, I would recommend installing something like Ad-aware. I'd consider it frankly suicidal to go online without it, though your ISP may provide some basic filtering.

You can scan your computer for free at http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ to see if you've got an infestation (and if your computer isn't running some sort of anti-spyware software, then statistically this is probable.) The registered version costs, but it not only scans but fixes. And it's a small price to pay to have it running in the background stopping the stuff getting in in the first place.
Or you can find a review of 10 reputable and effective alternatives at http://anti-spyware-review.toptenreviews.com/