We've started up a new game of IdleRPG in #idlerpg. Please feel free to join if you're idling! ;-)

Atrum's All-Out-War game has been updated to V4.1. Join #all-out-war to play this latest version.

We've just added a new chat facility to the Atrum website! You can now use Mibbit chat directly from our site by clicking here. If you would like more customization then pop on over to Mibbit.com where you can register an account and save all your chatting preferences.

Department of Internal Affairs Director, wiqd, along with all the staff at Atrum.org would like to congratulate our Minister of Finance, CuttingEdge and his wife custardslice on the birth of their baby, Keira, whose IRC nickname is yet to be determined.

"This is an excellent addition to the administration team here at Atrum", said wiqd. "We are simply delighted that our finance minister can change a few dirty nappies instead of the interest rate, for a change", added Squeek, Department of Transport Minister.

The President, who prefers to stay anonymous, wanted to express his wishes to both new parents and hopes they get at least a few hours sleep in the next few weeks, he followed with a slight chuckle.

"At least putting the baby to sleep will be a little easier in the dark, with no TV or other audio distractions", promised Chief of Operations at Eskom, Hades.

In response to what the most exciting part of this whole week was, Head of Narcotics Police Commissioner, Phate, declared "all new nickname registrations are now tax-deductible!". Yes we were also a little confused.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bugzy, also (via airmail) contacted our offices to pass on his wishes to the lucky two adding that he had already drank a few cases of aussie beer on their behalf and was strangely still completely sober.

Lordcow, Minister of Agriculture, was not available for comment as he was completely incapacitated due to prescribed pain-killers for his moosick (An extremely rare strain of flu).

Head of Commercial Crimes (Pornography Division), mynx, had nothing "exclusive" to say apart from listing some of the great things the two new parents would be there to enjoy.

This news item was sponsored by Telkom CEO, dhiren, who hopes you were not capped by downloading the few kilobytes used in its making. New Business Unit Manager at Neotel, citizen_x, just shook his head.

For users that are having issues trying to connect to our default ports (6667, etc) due to connectivity issues or a firewall, we've setup port21.atrum.org (use port 21) and port80.atrum.org (use port 80).