Word from ESPN is that an announcement will come as early as today that the NHL season is officially cancelled.

An NHL team owner who is requesting anonymity said that — barring a major, unforeseen turnaround — he expects the league to make an announcement canceling the rest of the 2004-05 season either after Thursday’s meeting or Friday, EJ Hradek of ESPN the Magazine has learned.

It was pretty clear looking at the last ownership proposal that they had no real care to negotiate anything with the players. To take the 24% salary rollback proposed by the players and simply wrap it into the owners initial proposals… well I’m still flabbergasted. The folks at hockeybird seem to agree.

What next? Who knows. More rentals from Netflix to occupy my TV watching time while the players all move overseas and the owners find some people willing to play for peanuts.

Checking my logs at the end of the month I see an upswing in referrer spam. Leaves me to ask, on a site that doesn’t list referrals, and has no public usage reports, what’s the point?

Many folks have asked me if I plan on updating my ancient web developer toolbar for Firefox and other Mozilla browsers. My answer is usually, someday, but in the mean time check out Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension.

Well, word has it that there is a new version of that toolbar with some bug fixes and a few additions. Check it out… while you wait for me to get around to mine… someday.

$67 for a pair of double meat special pizzas? A little movie put together for the ACLU about a connected future. Kinda funny. Kinda.

There seems to be a lot of intersting news about space exploration coming out of NASA lately. There’s the poorly named Deep Impact, a probe is Closing in on Titan and now this from Opportunity …

Looks to me like we just found the first sign of gold on Mars.