From misterrogers.org:

We are very sorry to deliver the sad news that Fred Rogers died on February 27, 2003 after a brief battle with stomach cancer. We are grateful for the many people, young and old, who have cared about his work over the years and who continue to appreciate Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. We hope that you’ll join us in celebrating his life by reflecting on his messages and taking them into your everyday lives.

I’m testing KABLOG, a program for the Palm that should allow for easy posting of blog entries from my Treo using MovableType’s XML-RPC interface. If you’re reading this, it means it worked. Cool.

Update from a computer: Well, it worked, but it didn’t enable comments on this entry, and I don’t think there’s a way to do it at the moment. I’ve enabled them manually.

Roughy of UE has set up a cool new website: blinktag. It may look a bit familiar to some of you, but hopefully it’ll turn out to be a friendlier place to hang out online. That’s the plan, anyway. I helped him out setting it up, mainly in the form of testing things as they were coming along.

So you should all (I think there might actually be 5 or 6 of you, now) go check it out.

Saturday, I went to LA to meet up with a bunch of soapboxers. Lon of Tornado Films had a screening of his movie Deserving Selfish at a film festival earlier in the week, and the whole group got together because he (and another ‘boxer, Michelle, for unrelated reasons) were in southern California. We met at a bowling alley, and of course, bowled. There were somewhere around twenty of us there, and it was very cool. I didn’t bowl particularly well (164, 162), but it was fun.

After bowling, we went to eat at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles. Well, we went there to put our name down to wait for a table, first. Then we walked around LA a bit, saw some war protestors, and went to Amoeba. On the way there, I saw the Hollywood sign for the first time since moving to California. I almost bought a (used, of course) CD there, but didn’t feel like waiting in line. I’m in no rush to get any more music right now, though, so I don’t really care all that much. We walked back to Roscoe’s to find out that they had called our names about 10 minutes earlier, and missed our table. Turns out it wouldn’t have mattered, because they thought we wanted a table for 5 not a table for 15. We waited a few more minutes, and they were able to put the remaning 10 of us (5 people had to leave) at two different tables. The food was good. Waffles and chicken is an interesting combination. I got far too much food, and took some home with me.

After dinner, some of us (the group I was with continually got smaller) headed to Miriam’s to watch Lon’s movie. We ended up watching a bunch of his older movies as well. I liked a few of them quite a bit. I can’t wait for his next one. When we were done there, five of us went to Andrew’s to just hang out for a while. We started watching the Stargate director’s cut, but I left before it was over because I had to drive back to Santa Barbara. So I did.

Sunday night I saw Daredevil. It was alright, not great. The CG annoyed me a bit, because it was rather obvious. I’m still glad I saw it. Tonight I went bowling, and bowled badly. Consistent, though. 158-158-152. My average dropped to an even 170. That’s about it, for now, I guess. More when theres more to say.

Don over at Radioactive Toy has syndicated my site using my XML feed. It’s on the right side of the page scrolled part of the way down.

Cool. I think I’m going to look into setting up some feeds here instead of just links maybe. When I have some time, maybe (read: not soon).

John Ashcroft: Then (1997)…

There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?

…and now (2003).

Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to expand the government’s domestic surveillance powers under the controversial USA Patriot Act to include reading individual e-mails and monitoring a person’s Web surfing activities. The Patriot Act, which is already under legal attack by privacy groups, was passed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and gives the Justice Department broad new electronic eavesdropping powers.

Update: In case anyone’s confused, Steven is the “Dell Dude” and was recently arrested for marijuana possession.

187-191-178 tonight. Not bad, I guess. 556 series, around a 185 average for the three games. That’s pretty much what I should be doing, but I felt tonight like I should have done much better. Just about every strike I threw was beautiful, and I knew it as soon as it left my hand. A lot of the time, I just didn’t throw the ball out far enough to the right for some reason. Actually, I have that problem quite often, not getting the ball out far enough. I’ll have to work on it sometime. I was pretty happy with most of my spare shots, except for one missed 5 pin (no idea how I missed that) and a missed 3-6-10 in the 10th frame of the last game. At least my average is climbing steadily now, and I seem to have finally figured out what I’m doing again. Hopefully, no more 128s like I had earlier in the year.

I’ve been thinking about joining a second league. I don’t think once a week is enough for me anymore. Or maybe I could just bowl on the weekends or something, not in a league. I don’t know. I am going to bowl this weekend, at least, with a bunch of people from the WWDN Soapbox. I definitely need to bowl more often.

Not much to say today, and lots to do. Just some links.
Total Information Awareness logo products. Link courtesy of Boing Boing. Proceeds go to the ACLU.
Woman challenges EULAs in California, after trying to return software to CompUSA.
I found a great domain name in the comments on WWDN: Space Monkey Mafia. Haven’t really checked it out yet. I will.
Interesting article on blog popularity: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Free socks if your shoes are checked at an airport.

Hmm… it’s supposed to give me a screen like this, but it doesn’t seem to. Maybe I didn’t get the 5 billion points while it was active, but I’m pretty sure I did. It said “RULE THE UNIVERSE” in nice big capital letters a while after it started. Odd.

Update (2/9/03 2:20 PM): Looks like I didn’t get the ‘Ruler of the Universe” screen because I didn’t hve the date set on the machine. I’ll just have to do it again.