To add to the masochism I’ve been subjecting myself to lately, I downloaded the Firefox nightly that has the Australis “theme.” Also called “take away everything useful from our users” theme.

This GUI was designed by gibbering loons high on fucking fermented holly berries. What a bunch of assholes must have designed this interface apocalypse. And I know they are assholes because they have fully and completely ignored their user base over the past few years as they have removed functionality and ignored all complaints.

I’m grateful to the original Mozilla developers, but most of them are now gone. The imbeciles have taken over. Yes, they owe me nothing. But I also don’t have to keep my mouth shut about how shitty it is becoming.

I no longer recommend Firefox to anyone. Most people I just tell them to download the latest version of Internet Explorer if they have Windows 7 and above. It’s less hassle and the interface at least doesn’t look quite as atrocious, and it’s improved markedly in the last three years.

If Firefox is going make itself as shitty as all other browsers, might as well use the other browsers.

I am helping a new company get off the ground. As with many startups, low cost and good functionality without a lot of BS is essential.

So I bought this firewall for them to use and it’s really damn good for the price. Better than some $1,500 firewalls I’ve used.

The interface and how to set things up is a bit confusing, but not really if you’ve used true high-end enterprise-grade firewalls. And I’ve used the most confusing, counterintuitive and convoluted $50,000+ enterprise-grade firewalls you can imagine, so it was pretty easy for me. I can see how it would trip up people who have only used consumer-level gear, though, as it’s absolutely not just clicking a few buttons and having something useful happen.

All that said, the Zyxel just works, is stable and seems fast though it hasn’t been under any true load yet. And might never be – it’s a small company.

But if you want an enterprise-class firewall at a consumer price, it’s a good one. I highly recommend it.

Overall I don’t care for Haim all that much, but I like this performance because it’s raw and yet controlled, and the singer completely rocks that guitar during the solo going into the bridge.

Also love at the end when the bass guitarist plays the drums. They are really really good, even if not quite the type of music I usually dig.