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This just in: Brett posts to his weblog using the most profound title ever created: “Why?” Now the world wonders “why” Brett chose this and another suicide bomb kills fifteen and injures 45 in Israel.

Yup. Today I ask, why? Why did I wake up 12 minutes late this morning (which is a pain in the ass if you only give yourself half-an-hour to get up and get ready)? Why did I choose not to work on my English essay? Why are we here? Why is my dad telling me to go to bed? Why won’t he go away?

These burning questions will remain forever unanswered. We will never know the truth. But anyway, back to a more interesting topic, me. (Yes, I’m a very modest person.) I said I’d post Friday and I didn’t; things just kept coming up and I ended up posting tonight, since I have virtually no homework. (Except that English essay, which I don’t feel like doing.) Last night I planned on blogging but didn’t because I’d already fried my brain over some painfully frustrating object-oriented code that I was trying to alter for my own uses. Luckily there were no side effects of this frustration; I didn’t break my code or anything. So that’s my excuse.

I moved Organon, if you didn’t notice already. I was growing tired of EDataRack’s constant outages and downtimes and email problems, so I killed them. Now both of my sites are on Brettia. It was stupid to have two separate sites in the first place. You see, I have this problem with being quite volatile in my decisions. One day I might think something is a good idea, the next I scrap it completely. Same with brettepps.com and http://www.brettia.com. At first it seemed like separating the blog from the site was a good idea (Organon was formerly at http://www.brettia.com/nucleus/), but I have since found that this subdomain system is much better. Having my own server and hosting myself would be nice, but Cox charges $60/month for a hosting-grade connection and I’d have to buy a $600 server and configure it, which can be a nightmare. Plus, I’d have no control panel or anything to set things up; it’d all have to be done manually.

I had to do a presentation today in social studies. I awed my audience with a PowerPoint slideshow and conquered my natural fear of public speaking and did a really good job. I’m happy.

I use w.Bloggar now for my blogging instead of the normal MT textarea, and it crashed a minute ago. I’m no longer happy. I lost two paragraphs of writing. Grr… Anyway, I recently switched from MozillaFirebird back to regular Mozilla, which is, though not as versatile, more well-supported. Get it at Mozilla.org. I got tired of the lack of Themes and stuff, so I went back to the good old dinosaur.

Finally, to put an end to the crud I have so far written, I found a neat new tool called WhatPulse which counts the number of keystrokes you do in any specified period of time. I’m up to 6,610 keystrokes since about 5:00 PM. That’s about 28 per minute. I need to work on getting that down and using the mouse more, but I’m addicted to keyboard shortcuts. (Like CTRL + V for Paste, or CTRL + C for Copy.) There’s a neat Linux program called Mousepedometa that comes with the KDEToys package that calculates mouse mileage, and I’ve already reached 5,000 miles on that. (In about a week.) Imagine if that were a car…the amount I’d have to pay for gas.