I think I'm done! No time to revise tonight, will do so tomorrow. In outside site news I compiled my first C++ program today. It doesn't do anything, but still, everybody has to start somewhere, right? I'm using CodeBlocks btw, an integrated compiler and editor, a so-called IDE... if anyone is interested. So far things are looking good. :) In more global news...

Tomorrow is the 18th, a day when a ton of big sites are shutting down in protest against SOPA. What's SOPA? If you don't know, you're really missing out! Here's the Wikipedia note about it:

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Presented to the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act.

Being factual as they are, they don't mention the heavy blow against freedom of speech on the Internet this act would deliver. In practice the US would be able to block foreign websites on a country-wide scale, just like China. What's happening to democracy? Are they crazy? In protest, a bunch of big sites are shutting down tomorrow, big names like Reddit, Mozilla, Wikipedia, WordPress & x264-BB.

I don't live in the US, but if this goes through in one country, who knows what madness will pass in the next. It's through our actions that we show that we care, so I'm participating in the protest! CyberD will be down for the next 24 hours.

So it started, the third week. Been working some more on that anime list today, like 5 hours, minimum. Oh, how time flies away and floats by in the stream of monotony! I'll be done with the whole anime category tomorrow though, for sure. Otherwise? Two new reviews. IRL it snowed and rained and then it all melted down until only a quickly icening mush is left. Ate some, walked some, worked some. Till tomorrow!

Cencoroll is about strange alien creatures, a boy and a girl, fights, school.. nuff said.

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Angel's Egg is a strange movie. Strange in that there's no conversation, in that the only character (and thus the main character) is a little girl, alone in a big world, running around with a strange egg. The movie title hints that it's the egg of an angel, is it?

In the world around her there's not a soul, at least that's how it starts out (is that some kind of symbolism?), but with time one more character appears, and he joins her in her quest across an abandoned world, buildings still standing, as if time was frozen only for its inhabitants. (more...)

And thus, the second week of the twelfth year since the start of the second millennium ends.

In around 45 minutes that is, but I'm taking an early leave, going to sleep, getting my rest before week three of the twelfth year since the start of the second millennium begins. It'll be a fun week. The programming course I'll be taking this semester starts tomorrow. I'll be learning the basics of C++, and after that I don't plan on learning any more programming, that's it, that's all I need to know... unless I want to learn some more. Crazy probability huh?

Since daylight faded, late afternoon, I've been working on this list that I posted yesterday, and it feels I'm getting somewhere! I'm up at letter K, so that leaves uh... just a little more than half! If you cut out Q and X and Y and Z then I AM halfways, haha, woo, yeah, right on. Next half tomorrow. Goodnight.

Been a few days now and the sluggishness in the keys has for the most part disappeared. Only the space bar and P key remain a bit slower in response, though not so they become problematic. Typing this I'm thinking I should just clean my keyboard, something I've never done before but that shouldn't take more than ten minutes. You just pop out the keys and wash them and wash the keyboard (with cloth, soaked in water, no water just as is). Due to various procrastinational reasons I suspect I'll just keep using the keyboard with these minor deficiencies though, in the long run the sluggishness will probably wear out completely.

Until next time I spill a cherry coke on my keyboard! And if you're wondering, this post has been lying around unposted for a while, thus the late date. Cheerio.