?automatic? file mode change.
changed  to  and added a description, and added  to set the number of seconds after connecting to the server to wait before announcing the initial status the bot has
added tons of comments. put the try-catch in StatusHandler.run() inside the while loop so it doesn't catch an exception and then stop. made Status.update() function as advertised. added docstrings formatted the way supybot wants for generating help texts.
added tons of comments. cleaned up some formatting. broke some methods into smaller chuncks. added operator methods to the Status class to make comparisons cleaner.