At long last, R2D2 has taken his rightful place next to HAL 9000 and Mars Pathfinder in the Robot Hall of Fame.

Kevin Sites is a journalist. He's currently in Iraq for MSNBC (he was there for CNN earlier this year, but they made him pull the plug on his blog.)

He's been photo and audio blogging, and filing all sorts of amazing reports on his website.

This awesome story that I read at bOINGbOING today is all about how he does it.

I just read this Register UK article at bOINGbOING:

Belkin's new router firmware "upgrade" automatically redirects http sessions to a Belkin sell-page for some bullshit censorware filtering crap. That's some upgrade: from a router that routes packets to a router that pushes the antithesis of free expression.

I dunno if anyone who reads this journal reads my website, or even visits my website . . . but my wife and I did this major road trip to Tulsa last year for a big old Star Trek convention. Along the way, we took about 600 pictures, and I've been steadily adding them to my gallery.

Some mothefucker calling himself Bruce Cook (myspecialworld2001@yahoo.com) thinks that it's okay to misrepresent me and my wife:

This was just sent to me by my friend Cory Doctorow, who works for the EFF. I'll be posting this at WWdN Monday, but I wanted to get maximum exposure as quickly as possible. This is a SERIOUS issue. If you're reading this, and you know an IEEE member, please make sure they see this. If you have a weblog of your own, please consider copying this post and putting it there, too.

IEEE members: save democracy from a broken standards-committee!

Over at bOING bOING I picked up this link to a script that translates English to 12-year-old-AOLer.

I ran that e-mail from my last entry through it, and it makes much more sense now.

Honestly, I can't make this shit up.

From: "Michael Bedford"
To: "Wil Wheaton"

Date: Today 20:00:06

Welcome to WIL WHEATON dot NET.
Fair and Balanced.

A buddy of mine just sent me this page. It's a huge gallery of people who have contributed to the evolution of the Internet, and hacker culture.

People range from Lary Wall to Taran King.

Really cool.

WWdN is moving to a new server, and it looks like the textads database didn't get moved with the rest of the site.

I was gonna put up The Moose, but it looks like my shell access has been temporraily suspended, too.

So until that gets taken care of, my site will be nice and hosed, and readers will have to get their internet pr0n fix elsewhere.

People ask me all the time if I'll link their site, or if I'll link a site they think is cool, or something like that.

Some other people occasionally send me 10 bucks or so to offset the costs of keeping the website up and running.

So I figured, whynot marry the two?

Texads are now available on WWdN. I get about 500,000 unique visitors a month, and this test ad I've been running has done almost 900 pageviews in less than 45 minutes.

On Thursday, I'll be at the OSCon up in Portland. I'll be mostly running around, getting my geek on, but I'm also dong a couple of organized book signing events.

1. Thursday, 1:00pm: book-signing at the convention bookstore in the exhibit hall.
2. Thursday night, 7:00-9:00pm: book-signing at Powell's Technical Books.

Very exciting moment for me tonight: I updated my geekcode.

I even updated it using the geekcode generator, installed using fink on my iBook, running in an X11 terminal window.

Then I got it into my Red Hat machine using the iBook's webserver.

w00t!

Here it is:

Yes!!

This morning, UPS arrived with a shipment of 366 copies of Dancing Barefoot from my printer! I nearly cried when I opened the first box, and saw "By Wil Wheaton" right on the cover.

My wife took pictures, which I'm debating putting up, because I have major bed head. :-)

I feel so good, and so excited about this. I started packing orders right away, and we completed 100 before I had to leave for a meeting.

I had this entry about being upset. Well, it was just a bunch of stupid whining, that I probably should have just kept to myself.

So I deleted it.

I wrote about being upset because of some ACs. Well, that's bullshit, and I need to own up to it. This feeling of being upset . . . it has nothing to do with ACs. And focusing on that crap just takes away from the positive comments and joy of being published. That's stupid on my part.