Read another volume of Houshin Engi, making a total of 4, and still didn't find it interesting in the least. It was a chore rather than a pleasure to read, so I dropped it as of right now. I'm going to start downloading Yakitate!! Japan as suggested by UZ. Should be good.

Ghost in the Shell is freaking awesome so far, and I'm sure it will stay awesome. I already read the manga, but the anime is freaking awesome too. I'll do a comparison between the manga and the anime after I'm done all the movies and the series. I still have to read GITS 2 actually... I've only read GITS 1, and 1.5, haven't found 2 on my manga site yet. It's there, but it has an error in the DL. So I'll search somewhere else for it. Anyone know of a place to get it? Preferably non-censored by our Westerney ways.

A few other things, got a new AV program. 2 actually. Deleted AVG 8 (not the free edition) and put in ESET Nod32 Smart Security and ThreatFire. Pretty 1337 setup I have going on now. I WAS going to also get Comodo, but when I went to their site, to prove how good of a firewall they have they gave this file basically saying "if your firewall doesn't catch that (which it won't lolz0rz) then ours is better than yours, so get ours". So I downloaded it, ran it, and my ThreatFire brought up a WTF window which allowed me to terminate this thing. SoI guess my ThreatFire is just as good, and I didn't get Comodo.

Not a big RAM footprint either, ESET is taking up basically 20k or RAM right now, and TF is taking up about 5k, in total 25 MB. Which is not bad at all, considering I have 2 firewalls up now, real-time scanners scanning for viruses, spyware, spam, rootkits, etc... and the cool thing about threat fire, is that it also searches for suspicious activity! It's different from other virus programs, because whereas they need known virus signatures to catch viruses, TF doesn't. TF doesn't need to know that the virus exists. TF simply searches for things that rootkits, viruses, and other crap do and brings out a WTF window if the spidey senses are telling it that somethings fishy. I recommend TF to everyone to use ALONGSIDE their current AV program. If you need help choosing a AV program, go to www.av-comparatives.org they do tests on a bunch and rate them.

These blogs are kind of like a ginormous MSN convo.