Many others and I think that we should have a live chat thing at vb world, if for now until you get a nice chat room going you can get a free chat from
http://www.chatspace.com/
its this thing for webpage chat rooms, it does have there logo on it, and I beilve that its free, try it.... but for the future I think that someone (maybe you john) can make an applet for a nice chat room, but until then goto http://www.chatspace.com/