Beer, Bitches, and Bullet Belts

When I wasn't traveling this past week I spent several hours working to breath life into the new "Rude.com Free Rude FliX Downloader". The web application, which is actually a complete rewrite of a tool originally produced by my close friend, proved to be quite the challenge as the previous method of delivery was now secured by the Rude website. Either way now that I've gotten it out of the way I can move on to other applications; I still need to get the contact page online, but once I do drop me a line with any ideas you may have for web apps.

1. Rude.com Free Rude FliX Downloader

If You Used to be Punk Then You Never Were

Although I've neglected this page, the news section, of the Rotten Agenda website much of this week I did in fact put up a new "5 Things I Hate" article on Tuesday evening, which was written by Ginger Vitus of course. In between my seemingly endless sessions of the new "Dead Island" game for PlayStation 3, and sugar-induced comas (thanks AirHeads), I managed to get the Rotten Tutorials page up and online along with our first tutorial: Installing the Mobile Intel 915GM Express chipset on Microsoft Windows 7. I had actually put together the tutorial earlier this week while resolving a technical issue for one of my co-workers, but was having some difficulty in converting the video walkthroughs to the necessary formats, which ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. I also plan on resurrecting the free Rude FliX downloader and viewer along with several other applications later this week, or by the end of the month.

On a separate note I'm really looking forward to D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) and the F.U.'s next week. Anal Cunt was on the bill as well, but of course Seth's been dead for a few months now. Oh well. Cue No Redeeming Social Value's "Anal Cunt Sucks (and They're All Gay)".

1. Installing Mobile Intel 915GM Express Chipset on Microsoft Windows 7
2. Rotten Tutorials

Punk's Dead; You're Next!

I've been working steadily on introducing a number of new features for the website over the past few nights, and have begged Ginger Vitus to write some actual content while I spend my time both programming away, and listening to noisy, raw and lo-fi Scandinavian Hardcore. We've decided that she'll do a weekly piece on 5 things that annoy here: people, places, experiences, etc.

1. 5 People I Hate at the Grocery Store

If AIDS Don't Get You Then the Warheads Will

Late last night after spending quite a bit of time programming, and ensuring that the Rotten Agenda website search engine functioned, I came up with a potential way of fine-tuning its results. I played around with it more this afternoon/evening and it's now working correctly.

And Now Back to Our Programming

I'm proud to announce that the search engine for the Rotten Agenda website has now been activated, is online, and fully functional — albeit somewhat buggy. I'll spend more time fine-tuning it tomorrow.

Record Collectors are Still Pretentious Assholes

Having finally been able to dedicate the time and resources necessary to completely rebuild, redevelop, and restructure this website recently I'm thoroughly satisfied with the result. Visitors can certainly expect to see more content flow through the Rotten Agenda this time around; Ginger Vitus and I are working hard to ensure that the website gets updated weekly (and daily) with fresh articles, content, downloads, tutorials, etc. I'll also be adding more features to this website such as the search function.

Channel Zero: Reality

We call it "television"; it could be used as the greatest form of mass communication of knowledge that exists in the present day, however what we see on our screens is merely a very acute reflection of the path that mankind has taken in "his" short, and somewhat erratic existence. Is it not ironic that the knowledge, and technology that brought forth this marvelous invention could not be put to further use in the field of eliminating some of the struggles that stand before the progression of humanity? For example: learning to live in true cohesion with our environment, and ridding ourselves of the burdens of poverty, inequality and greed.

Like many other advancements in the practice of human science television has been put to use in a wholly regressive way — far from enhancing the qualities of life! Its possible benefits have been largely overlooked. What we are left with is the mirror image of our own shallow and pretentious little "worlds". We laugh, we cry, we feel hatred, we feel love as we absorb ourselves within the characters portrayed on the screen; whereas if we were to take a step sideways we might recognize the characters as being several shades of ourselves.

Television, to most, is regarded as a primary source of entertainment rather than one of many possible forms of education, or enlightenment. We allow ourselves to switch our own minds off, and we plug into that of another. On the whole, television does nothing that puts into perspective our own shortcomings.

Turn away from the cathode ray and face reality: a world of greed, pretense, and fear and misery. The focal point of view in the means for our escape, and until we realize this problem the show remains the same.