Hi all!
if you love IRC, and hate bloated IRC clients, here is an awesome application for you!
not quite as lightweight as bitchX in linux, but still nice, and all runs from a simple console window 
you can get it here :
http://joshdick.net/
here is a direct link to the file:
http://joshdick.net/programming/irssi-win32-0.8.12.exe
this is very cool! I am so happy 