Like usual, I just need to go balls out (perhaps literally) with my new Asian fetish and move to Japan. Not that there isn't plenty of work in the sex industry here, but here I can't get access to all the anime goods I need. Yes, need.

But, even if I do move there, the dating scene is naturally still a pain in the ass, so I'm fucked wherever I go, and not in a good way.

Wherever I end up, I still need to make my dream come true of running the best porn mag ever, Chicks Masturbating.

Like always, Maureen Dowd puts things together in a much more coherent fasion than I.

Yeah, we are so totally fucked. The Administration isn't going to do anything to help this country as long as it doesn't line their friend's pockets and keep them in power.

The really scary thing about this blackout is that it happened on accident. What the fuck would happen if someone tried something on purpose? Don't give me any shit about giving terrorists ideas, either - they're already way out ahead of us. Even though I'm an electrical engineer, power isn't my specialty. Still, I don't see any excuse for shit like what happened last week. I know some of my EE brothers out there still have jobs - somebody get them to fix this shit. Well, more like, someone front the goddamn money so they can fix it.

Finally, what is this nonsense that people aren't getting excited about transmission lines? That was my favorite subject area in electromagnetics, partly because it was one of the first things that actually made good sense.

Clearly, this Moore guy as well as all the people down there protesting feel strongly about this issue. Otherwise, they wouldn't be motivated like they are to do something about something. The thing that's pissing me off the most about this (today) is the fact that these people could be doing so many better things with their time. You know, shit that isn't childish and petty, and might actually help someone. Oh, and it's great that this jackoff is willing to start throwing away thousands of dollars every day in a state where people can't fucking read (call it a hunch).

Again, CNN's poll shows that more than half of the people responding don't understand why separation of church and state is important.

You know what phrase I'm getting sick of? "Guilty as sin." Has sin's guilt ever been proven in a court of law? I didn't think so.

Hey, so check this shit out. The banner ad on my blog actually proved useful to me. Who you gonna call?

So this Chemical Ali thing is bugging me. I'll fully admit that maybe I was negligent when they retracted their belief that they had killed him back in April. Still, I can't help but think that our ever-so-responsible media just didn't bother to make it a newsworthy item.

This got me to thinking that maybe I need to start my own news service. How long do you think that would last? Probably about six seconds. I think it might go a little something like this:

‹steps off airplane and Reagan Fucking National›

Ahhhh, D.C.! So good to be here! Let's head on over to the White House.

‹later, at the White House›

Hey, Mr. "President", why are you such a fucking retard?

‹BANNED FOR LIFE›

Fuck. Used that one too early. And man, was that place ever white. Let's head over to the Pentagon.

‹later, at the Pentagon›

Hi, Mr. Rumsfeld. How does it feel to be one of the biggest assholes in the world, yet still his Deputy Secretary's bitch?

‹BANNED FOR LIFE›

Oh-for-two. Let's hit Capitol Hill.

‹later at, you guessed it, the U.S. Capitol building>

Hey, you congress fuckers! How about a real September 11th Inquiry?!?!

‹BANNED FOR LIFE›

So much for that. Shit, and I really like visiting the Capitol, too. Oh well. Last stop, the State Department.

‹at the State Department›

COLIN POWELL, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN US?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Some sobbing heard from inside, then ‹BANNED FOR LIFE›

This would conclude my short yet eventful career in journalism. After all that, maybe I could find someone at the Watergate who was working there back in the 70's to tell me some stories, but that would be about it.

Wow, it's been an exciting couple of days here in the Fuck Everything offices, which consist of me alone in my room in my pajamas.

Today I've got a couple more links to add to the small yet growing list. This guy had some nice things to say, and this cleverly named site even quoted me!

Okay, enough feeling good about minor accomplishments. Time to get dressed and go to work, while I still have a job.

So a friend of mine and I were talking about modding the original Gameboy Advance to add a frontlight to it, like the GBA SP. Yeah, I'm sure people thought of this over two years ago before the original GBA came out, but although I dabble in video games, I'm by no means a hard-core gamer, and therefore a little behind on shit.

Anyway, I figured someone had come up with the idea years ago, and sure enough, it looks like there are solutions out there. Apparently, there is also another kit which doesn't require soldering, but can't match the performance of the Afterburner. That's fine; the 'no soldering' part didn't sound like much fun, anyway.

Now I can have the best of both worlds; a frontlit GBA like the SP, but without the shitty design of the SP.

What the fuck is going on here? Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I never heard that they retracted their belief that this guy was dead. Now the former dead man has been captured.

Okay, this turned out to be a really long yet still half-assed review, so if you don't care about web browsers or open-source software, you can punt on this post.

So I've been fucking around all day with a new web browser - Mozilla Firebird. Standard Mozilla is my browser of choice, for a few reasons. I don't care much for IE, and it's not an option under Linux (well, maybe with wine, but I don't care either way), which is fine by me. Firebird is an offshoot of Mozilla, and it's supposed to be a more lightweight browser. I'm all for lightweight; I don't need a bunch of bullshit colorful borders or pretty pictures or useless menus that do nothing but suck up memory. The same philosophy extends to my desktop environment, where I'm happy as long as I have a pop-up desktop menu and can have a JPEG as my background.

Firebird definitely does seem more lightweight - load times are faster, which is nice on my 500 MHz shitbox laptop, and menus and icons are simplified. It also has one of my favorite Mozilla features, tabbed browsing. I wouldn't even touch anything without tabbed browsing nowadays, and as far as I know, IE doesn't even have it (at least, not the versions I've used, and from what I understand, IE hasn't exactly undergone a lot of updates). The problem with Firebird is that its default configuration is a little too lightweight. There's one button that Mozilla's tab bar has, whose function is to open a new tab. Firebird doesn't have this by default, but it can be added. The fucking thing is, I cannot for the life of me figure out how the fuck to add it manually. I can download an 'extension,' which I have done, which gives me that one stupid button. The problem is, it fucks up other shit on the tab bar. I shouldn't have to download an extension for something so basic, anyway. The fact that such a simple thing isn't in there is fucking infuriating, not to mention inexcusable. In addition to this one button nonsense, there are all sorts of other neat things you can do to extend the functionality of tabs, but so far I haven't figured out the right set of options that make me happy. One option, and fuck if I know which one since there seem to be about 12 that sound like they do the same thing, causes problems with 'blog editing, which we simply cannot have.

Firebird is only in its 0.6 release, but stability is pretty good, except for hangs when trying to change themes/skins. It looks like it has some improved functionality for handling bookmarks, but the bookmark manager itself looks just as retarded as Mozilla's. And by retarded, I mean that in the sense that it has no intelligence. Like, say, I'll cut a bookmark, and then go double click on a folder, and paste the bookmark. I want the bookmark placed in the folder I just opened, but it puts the pasted bookmark outside and above the folder, and then I have to drag it to where i want it. Little shit like that I just wish they'd fix. Oh, and for some reason, buttons like the arrow keys just stopped working in Firebird. I don't think that has to do with the pounding on the keyboard I've done out of frustration, because they still work in other applications. Oh, wait, now they magically work again. WTF? Goddammit, broken again.

The Google search section on the main toolbar is nice, but I wish I could figure out how to move it somewhere else. In fact, that's the whole problem, is just that I can't fugure out how to move, add, and delete shit. Configuration can be done by hand-editing CSS files, which is a royal pain in the ass. The few examples I've seen by no means give me any insight as to syntax or even options that can be controlled. Maybe there's some decent documentation out there, but if I didn't stumble across it through the seaches I've done already, then that's just bullshit. I'm probably just being a dumbass, though, and it's not that hard to find.

Of course, the ultimate test of a browser will be its porn downloading abilities. One thing that fucking pissed me off about Mozilla was that in the right-click popup menu on images, it had the 'save image' and 'send image' options one after another. Obviously, I use 'save image' a lot. But sometimes I accidentally click on 'send image', which pops up a fucking e-mail window. When I'm trying to download a bunch of images, I can't wait 6 seconds for the window to open, and then for me to close it. The default menu on Firebird doesn't have this shit since there is no built-in mail client (one is available, but I don't care since I gave up on GUI mail clients a long time ago... Pine all the way, baby!). Otherwise, it seems to be OK in the downloading department. Mozilla's recent versions have been corrupting images for some unknown reason, which is just intolerable. So far, Firebird has allowed me to download my pictures of Japanese idols without any corruption issues, but it hasn't seen the tour of duty that Mozilla has.

So, unless I can get that one fucking button, and sort out the other tab bullshit, it will probably be back to standard Mozilla for now. Firebird is just too much of a fucking pain in the ass to get to behave right now. This, of course, is a common syndrome with open source projects like Mozilla or Linux. I like hacking on shit and trying to figure stuff out, but when I get to points where I'm saying "this is fucking irritating; I don't want to deal with this shit," then the average user will never jump on board, because he doesn't want to have to do anything.

Still, if you're someone who likes to tinker, Firebird may be something to keep an eye on. Mozilla was way too unstable for me for a long time, but it's become my everyday browser. Hopefully Firebird will get there too. I know some tinkering will always be necessary just based on its nature as a lightweight yet extensible browser, but if countless Google searches can't answer my questions, then there's just not enough of a knowledge base out there to make it a workable scenario right now. We'll see how it goes over the next few days and with future releases.

You see, this is why, even though I don't like the current administration, I hate the Demorats too and just can't get on board with them. They always come up with limp dick, opportunistic shit like this. John Kerry is great at this crap, like when he was calling for 'regime change' in America. Yes, I agree with what they're saying - get rid of Bush. But they come up with concepts or slogans that are so fucking unimaginative that it makes me ill. It's not even possible to recall Bush, so why use that as your main concept? Why don't you fuckers just sit down for awhile and come up with some shit on your own? If you can't even come up with original campaign slogans and stuff, how are people supposed to have any confidence that you can come up with solutions to this country's problems?

Of course, the Democrats' lack of vision and a clear plan for the future could be the subject of many, many rants. I'm just waiting for one candidate to unveil his 'roadmap' for America.

Wait, we completely stiffed the U.N. in the lead up to the war, and now we expect other countries to send people now that a serious incident where non-military personnel were killed has taken place?

"What? You guys ignored us before the war, and now you want us to send people as fucking cannon fodder? Fuck you! Clean up your own goddamn mess!" is probably what most countries would have to say to us. At least, that's what I'd 'a' told the bitch.

For those who had given up, Get Your War On has been updating every couple of days.

Also, I've been inspired to add a guestbook to Fuck Everything. Sorry in advance for the annoying banner ads, but it can't be helped unless I want to pay money. With an anime con coming up in like a month, I need to be preserving my war chest.

I just noticed that the fucking guestbook also has pop-ups, which I initially missed before since my browser just automatically blocks that shit. So, again, sorry, but whaddya want for free?

Okay, so check this shit out. I'm totally friggin' stoked, and it's not even the first day of classes. In the past couple of weeks, I've actually gotten e-mails from a couple of people who actually read and enjoyed my shitty little blog. This guy e-mailed me a couple of weeks ago, and he has an interesting 'blog. Then today, I got a message from this guy. He's pissed off, too, and as we all know, I respect that. Just got the e-mail and haven't had the chance to peruse a whole lot of his site, but I've seen some good stuff so far.

So there we go, I've got like six people now who I can think of besides myself who have been here at least once. It's a small start, but it's something. You know where I think this is gonna lead? I'm gonna rule the world, and virtually everyone will be in trouble.

Okay, grandiose visions aside, I've decided to add a new feature to my crummy front page to give some recognition to people who have, for some reason, perused the neverending shitstorm known as Fuck Everything. We'll work on ruling the world later.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo! Okay, this has nothing to do with Ben Asslick, but the Penny Arcade guys were making fun of this earlier, and I felt it worthy of some useless commentary. Whereas I give the XBox shit (and I rather like the XBox, by the way) for being a stripped-down PC, this Phantom things is... Well, a PC. Oh, and just for fun, download their PDF spec sheet. It's so full of marketing fluff and bullshit that I think I got some form of poisoning from it.

I think I'm going to start developing my own console which has no use, and I'm going to name it 'Chapter 11.'

More of this asshole. There are enough ignorant quotes in that article that you can just make up your own commentary on this one. I think we could save everyone a lot of time and effort by just burning Alabama down.

This redistricting shit is getting real old now.

And, yeah, gotta love that 'crazy' John Kerry! Fuckhead.

Yeah, great, more dick medication. Meanwhile, our power grid is falling apart, and the Middle East is in flames.

Christ, what a mess.

Also, I like Bremer saying "We know in general terms who's behind it," which means they don't know fucking shit. Naturally, they "know" it's Saddam loyalists, because if you're not with the U.S., you're with Saddam.

God damn it, people are fucking losers. I'm in an IRC room, let's call it the "pervert channel," and someone comes in and actually asks if there are any female Chicago Bears fans in the room. What the fuck? Look, I'd like to see the Bears do well this season and all, but I don't go into the "pervert room" to talk about it. Why are men so invested in sports that they can't even stop talking about them when they're places designed for jerking off?

So apparently, Filthy is still dead. How long is this shit going to go on for?

Seriously, who the fuck out there needs more than 4 Gigs of memory to play Counterstrike and download pornography? Who the fuck is going to be rendering Monsters Inc. at home? You know what kind of home users will buy 64-bit based PCs? People like me, because I'm a gimp.

Boy, does this make me sick. Pretty fucked up that Asscroft has to run around the country to tell people "Hey, look guys, it's not that evil!" And since he's such a friendly looking guy, it'll work. Also, fuck all these people saying the purpose of the campaign is to "educate" Americans. You mean indoctrinate?