I apologize if you used an old version of my IRC bot. It actually tried to screen-scrape the Frink website and did it badly. There are some sites still using it. (And, I think, got throttled for abuse, which might explain your "flakiness".)

There's a newer version of the bot that runs a Frink interpreter on your own system and it's rock-steady. (I saw another IRC bot that forgot to synchronize on the Frink interpreter. Don't use that either.)