If you don't have an IRC client yet, you can download mIRC for Windows at http://www.mirc.com.
"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today." - Stephen Wolfram
People really need to get in IRC more. Maybe we need to set up some sort of java-based IRC for people who don't know how to use mIRC or trillian, or maybe someone write a guide. Trillian is incredibly easy to use, you just enter the server info and type in what channel you want to join.
No matter what nickname I chose, it said it was taken. Considering I used a few damn oddball ones makes me think that I simply failed to set it up correctly.