diff --git a/core/bot.py b/core/bot.py
index 919ec03..98fbf45 100644
--- a/core/bot.py
+++ b/core/bot.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ def clean_name(n):
     """strip all spaces and capitalization"""
     return re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9_]+', '', n.replace(" ", "_"))
 
+
 def get_logger():
     """create and return a new logger object"""
     # create logger
@@ -41,7 +42,6 @@ def get_logger():
 
 
 class Bot(object):
-
     def __init__(self):
         # basic variables
         self.start_time = time.time()
@@ -146,4 +146,3 @@ class Bot(object):
         self.logger.debug("Logging engine stopped")
         logging.shutdown()
         sys.exit()
-
diff --git a/core/irc.py b/core/irc.py
index e9b765e..1ff2389 100755
--- a/core/irc.py
+++ b/core/irc.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class SendThread(threading.Thread):
     def run(self):
         while not self.shutdown:
             line = self.output_queue.get().splitlines()[0][:500]
-            print u"[{}]: {}".format(self.conn_name, line)
+            print u"{}>>> {}".format(self.conn_name, line)
             self.output_buffer += line.encode('utf-8', 'replace') + '\r\n'
             while self.output_buffer:
                 sent = self.socket.send(self.output_buffer)
diff --git a/core/loader.py b/core/loader.py
index 80f4791..0fc0c61 100644
--- a/core/loader.py
+++ b/core/loader.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class PluginLoader(object):
         """loads (or reloads) all valid plugins from a specified file"""
         filename = os.path.basename(path)
 
+        # compile the file and eval it in a namespace
         try:
             code = compile(open(path, 'U').read(), filename, 'exec')
             namespace = {}
@@ -66,16 +67,19 @@ class PluginLoader(object):
             traceback.print_exc()
             return
 
-        # remove plugins already loaded from this filename
+        # remove plugins already loaded from this file
         for name, data in self.bot.plugins.iteritems():
             self.bot.plugins[name] = [x for x in data
                                 if x[0]._filename != filename]
 
+        # stop all currently running instances of the plugins from this file
         for func, handler in list(self.bot.threads.iteritems()):
             if func._filename == filename:
                 handler.stop()
                 del self.bot.threads[func]
 
+        # find objects with hooks in the plugin namespace
+        # TODO: kill it with fire, kill it all
         for obj in namespace.itervalues():
             if hasattr(obj, '_hook'):  # check for magic
                 if obj._thread: