I'm pleased to announce that Pir8Jokes.com is coming along quite nicely. I've completely ignored all responsibilities and obligations over the past couple days to reach that point - I'm pretty pleased with how it's turning out. I have such a plan for this site - rate the jokes, add your own, pirate links, search, report duplicates... ohhh, it's going to be nice, but I think progress will be slow once I get the rest of the subpages in some form, since that's always how it is. I almost forgot how long it takes to do a site's coding and design, sheesh.

So this weekend I did indeed march my fool head off to help save the world. No luck, we're still at war. It was a strange vibe this year - a lot of people gathered in solidarity (well, lots of people had their own agenda too, but the basic message was the same). But, it's been two years since this has been going on... there wasn't the same optimism and feeling of purpose there were in the past couple years. At first we were all opposing the war, demonstrating how it was ridiculous to go to war... now, it's more of an act of desperation to get our troops home and out of harm's way. One person made a sign demonstrating Bush making love, doggy-style, to the globe. That was pretty neat to see.

The funny thing about that march was that at one point, Andrea and I got caught up in the Socialist Alternative crowd, and both of us even got signs to wave around. So, for about half an hour I was a modern communist. They really knew how to yell, it was kind of nice for me to yell in public.

I introduced my friend Sara to the band Devotchka last week, but left her with a few songs downloading on her computer. She called me up a couple days later and the first thing she said was "Michael, Devotchka's beautiful!" And she's right.

At work I've begun work on a DVD project, and as a result needed to order a new hard drive. I got this sweet Maxtor external 300GB, and you know what the best thing about it is, other than looking like a car amp? It has a button on the outside that you can set to run anything! So - right now, if you press this glowing blue button by my laptop, my laptop will instantly begin playing Journey. This never ceases to amuse me.

I've settled on a digital camera - the Canon PowerShot S70. Jason wins, but Andrea comes in at a close second.

And now, since pirates are this month's theme, I leave you with a selection from my never completed nine-minute Flash edutainment spectacular, World History Multimedia Final. I actually have all the sound recorded for this, featuring the voices of friends I've lost touch with since AIS. As with most of my stories, this ultimately ended with a dance party.