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USS George Washington’s CO and XO Fired!

And now from the we-all-saw-that-coming department, the USS George Washington’s Commanding Officer (CO) and Executive Officer (XO) have been relieved of their duties following the shipboard fire they had in May. The firing came at the direction of Admiral Willard, Commander Pacific Fleet, who cited the typical nondescript “lack of confidence” with an additional “failure [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 Jim § In The News § Navy Life § Security ‡ Comments (26)

FEWL.NET Blocked on the USS Blue Ridge.

About a week or so ago, someone left a comment on another post telling me access to my site was restricted from the USS Blue Ridge. I still have no definite reason as to why, but now I think I have an idea. Looking through other sites that were linking to me, I found this [...]

Posted 22 June 2008 Jim § Navy Life § Social Commentary ‡ Comments (14)

Pictures of USS George Washington Fire Damage.

Despite this PowerPoint being sent to pretty much everyone in the Fleet and then some, a reader wrote that the crew of the USS George Washington was recently given training on Operations Security (OPSEC) due to this slide show being unauthorized. Since I’d like to avoid an ass-chewing from my omnipotent command, I have removed [...]

Posted 16 June 2008 Jim § In The News § Navy Life ‡ Comments (6)

I’m Still Alive…

Thanks to those of you sent me encouraging e-mails after my Hong Kong post telling me not to off myself, but don’t worry, it was never an option. I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but I’m over my slump and I plan to post about 5 different things this weekend.
I’m probably going to [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 Jim § ‡ Comments (1)

I Need to Be More Positive.

Despite the way I’m sometimes judged by my posts, I’m pretty receptive to other’s opinions. I got a lot of feedback from readers on my 9 Reasons Not to Join the NAVY post. Some of the comments were from people completely agreeing with what I wrote, while others said the reasons were technically true but [...]

Posted 07 October 2007 Jim § My Life § Navy Life ‡ Comments (7)

Fewl.Net Featured on VAJoe.com

VAJoe.com, a site that supports the military and MilBlogging community has been nice enough to feature my little ol’ site. VAJoe is an awesome site with great forums, job boards, and other services for military folks. Be sure to check out my interview and take a second to join VAJoe.com and get in on the [...]

Posted 02 August 2007 Jim § ‡ Comments (0)

Jump to a Random Post.

No, I’m not dead, and I promise I’ll be posting more in a little bit. In the mean time, you can click the “Jump to Random Post” link on the sidebar to, well, jump to a random post. Too often blogs that have a lot of posts get most of their content buried under the [...]

Posted 22 April 2007 Jim § ‡ Comments (2)

Fewl.net Upgrade.

I updated Fewl.net’s blogging software, WordPress, to its current version 2.1. The site doesn’t look much different, despite my having to reconfigure everything all over. WordPress’s coolest new feature is its support of widgets, or easy drag-and-drop add-ons. I’m not planning on adding much yet, but those who use Internet Explorer can at least view [...]

Posted 24 March 2007 Jim § ‡ Comments (1)

Welcome New Visitors!

I’m sure if you’re from my ship and reading this, it’s partly because you want to see if I wrote something about you. I don’t know how this rumor that I’m using this as a means of broadcasting everyone’s business got started, but I assure you it isn’t true. I welcome any new visitor, but [...]

Posted 25 February 2007 Jim § ‡ Comments (6)

Loose Lips & My Awesome New Boss.

So the inevitable happened. One of the spouses back in Yoko came across my site and got a little uneasy about me mentioning places we would be in the future. I didn’t think much of it and made sure to keep it general, but I forgot about the first rule of everything you do in [...]

Posted 24 February 2007 Jim § ‡ Comments (7)

Crappy WordPress Error.

As you can tell, my WordPress is taking a dive. I’ve been getting a few blank comments lately, but didn’t think anything of it really. Now I have these gawdy errors, and I’m behind a firewall that blocks the CPanel port. It’s a pretty easy fix too.
Never mind! Klumsi fixed it, and all things are [...]

Posted 19 February 2007 Jim § WTF ‡ Comments (2)

Snapshots of Life in the Navy.

I am finally back on land! Man, it feels so great just to sit in my apartment and veg out. It wasn’t even a long underway, but for some reason, it felt like an eternity. I’ve finally got some time to just sit and relax, so I should start posting more frequently.
I was working [...]

Posted 25 November 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (8)

It’s my Birthday!

With all the working that’s been going on, I almost forgot today is my birthday. I’m 24 years old now. I don’t even want to think how I’m going to handle turning 25. Yikes. The Navy is doing the honor of giving me another full work day as my gift, so that ought to be [...]

Posted 29 August 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (7)

Monster Island

I was reading Fangoria magazine when I came across a bunch of book reviews in the back. Skimming over the horror-themed books, my eyes found Monster Island. The story is about a group of people who travel to New York after a zombie-inducing epidemic wipes out the living throughout the rest of the world. What [...]

Posted 07 June 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (0)

My Top 5 Web 2.0 Services.

Yes I just think it’s a marketing buzzword trying to redefine already created technologies. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been eating it up like it left and right. Here are my top favorite Web 2.0 sites. I’m sure you’ve heard of them, but eh.
Moola.com - This is definitely the most entertaining of all [...]

Posted 30 May 2006 Jim § Techy § Web Stuff ‡ Comments (0)

Gmail for Fewl.net

I was recently accepted into the beta test of Gmail for your domain. Now, all my email for Fewl is hosted by Google, and comes with their interface, spam features, and chat. POP access is also included with account, although there might be some minor changes when configuring it for your mail client. I [...]

Posted 29 April 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (0)

MySpace + Easter Bunny = Killing My Bandwidth!

For the second time in about a week, I got a warning saying my site was maxing out its bandwidth limit. I haven’t had any noticable increase in visitors or comments, so I wasn’t sure what could be causing the spike in traffic. I checked out my logs and quickly noticed a lot of referrers [...]

Posted 25 April 2006 Jim § Web Stuff ‡ Comments (3)

If you use RSS, add my feed!

Like many people, I read most of my favorite sites through RSS and a news reader. RSS is a way for websites to syndicate their content, which can be read later by using a centralised service. I have about 40 or so sites that I used to frequent all the time. It eventually got time-consuming, [...]

Posted 07 March 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (1)

OK You Fewlish Lurkers, Time to Come Clean!

I took a look at my stats, and I’m seeing many more hits than just the few people who comment every now and again. If you find yourself coming here, for whatever reason, let me know! Post a comment with your name, where you’re from, and how you found the site!

Posted 22 January 2006 Jim § ‡ Comments (6)

Goodbye Flickr, Hello Gallery!

As much as I enjoyed being one of the trendy Internet hipsters that used Flickr, the crappy restrictions have totally turned me off. If not being able to upload as many photos and albums as I wanted wasn’t enough, the page full of ads when I logged in, was. I know that I could have [...]

Posted 07 January 2006 Jim § Software § Web Stuff ‡ Comments (5)
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