Lol, yeah, because I was totally in the room then.
Edit 2.23:
At the moment connections from Mibbit and a certain region of CGO cable are banned... if you're trying to get in from there and it's not letting you in, give me a PM so I can edit it to let you in.
It took me awhile to figure it out. I eventually started using Trillion because I really, really hated mIRC. It's like hitting the easy button! Go try it.