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Somehow I missed this http://www.buffalonews.com/317/story/408431.html Buffalo News article that mentioned estrip. E:strip: This is the self-proclaimed "original neighborhood blogging commu0 . . .
Here is just a glimpse of what it will be like in the new estrip when I am done - someday. I really wish I had more time to donate to it, sorry it is going so slowly. Not done with fleshing out the 0 . . .
I decided to go with avatars and titles in the latest entries list. I think for people who are not familiar with the site content it will make more sense than the person's name or the date. The0 . . .
On both the Buffalo NFTA Bus schedule site http://estrip.org/nfta and on estrip.org it appears that the use of IE6 is dying rapidly. I think Roswell might be the last stronghold. I can't believ0 . . .
There was some drama after the upgrade to mysql 5.1 yesterday night. I am not sure what happend. Teh upgrade seemed to go find and I updated and repaired the tables but then the blogs table crashed 0 . . .
I updated the estrip mobile site http://estrip.org/xhtml again. 0. Made the buttons way bigger on the iphone, which has enough screen real estate to handle that. 1. Made the login work better on0 . . .
I don't have all that much time right now but I decided to do some mobile site updates that make using hte mobile site easier now that more of you are using it. 1. You are now presented with 0 . . .
Does anyone care anymore. If the new estrip was IE8, Firefox, Safari only and IE 6/7 users had to use the mobile site would anyone even care?0 . . .
We made it to 32 journals in 24 hours. 1108/32Blogs1105.png0 . . .
Thank you to everyone who help during our month long drive for 25 thousand journal entries. Hope to see you all at the 25k Journal Entries / Halloween Party. 1008/25kBlogs1028.jpg0 . . .
We just hit 7,000,000 words. Its so exciting in like a day we will also hit 25,000 journals! Who would have ever thought. Thank you to everyone who contributed. 1008/Happy7MillionWordsEstrip10270 . . .
Adobe release Flash Player 10 today http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash It has a bunch of new security protections and a bunch of new features. It0 . . .
Firefox still is the top. Look how few people visit with safari. Reading mac news sites you would think it was like 90% of the web, lol. Chrome is still nothing 0908/EstripVisitorBrowsers0910.gif0 . . .
Holy crap. My first FIOS bill from Verizon to serve estrip came today and it is $321!! That is for one month and some weeks of service, plus setup fee, plus router, plus taxes. It looks like it wil0 . . .
The new server is now running over at e:fing's It should be much faster than before. Tell me if you notice anything weird. Now that I pay $100/month for estrip.org you all should entertain m0 . . .
There might be some downtime for estrip.org on tuesday. I am going to be moving to server from Artvoice to a private residence on a new business FIOS acct I opened for estrip. This might cause some 0 . . .
We are thinking about a party on Saturday night at our house. Is anyone/everyone free? Paul0 . . .
Paul, Just a heads up, one of our two T1 circuits is totally out, so we're essentially running at half speed. Just in case you noticed any slowdowns, that'd be why... I just discovered t0 . . .
So I have been doing lots of Adobe Flex http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/ stuff and I wanted to see what version of flash player people had to see if it was worth using Flex for estrip dev and 0 . . .
I find it totally frustrating that this irate person who cannot provide me with the information required to handle the situation. I am not afraid of her attorney. We have been through this before. W0 . . .
Well, its that time of year when we normally lose Artvoice's Best of Buffalo contest but this year the category for Best Website is just gone so at least we cannot really lose, or do we pre-lose?0 . . .
Can you believe it, in eight more comments we will have 30,000 since our first comment back in june of 05 e:news,30106 Who would have thought that we had so much too say?!0 . . .
So we are cornering the market on some search keywords via google that really surprise me. buffalo blogs - estrip.org #1 I mean we come up in the top 5 for just about anything with buffalo or el0 . . .
Thanks to everyone who donated to the new server fund. We have paid it off and it is up and running. It means so much to me that you guys all helped out. Paul 0208/EstripServerFund0202.gif0 . . .
NFTA - Metro: Routes & Fares - buffalo bus schedule - schedules for the bus in Buffalo, NY I decided to make a much simpler list for downloading the NFTA metro Bus and Rail schedules as I was s0 . . .
Looks like no one has anything to say right now. I hope everyone else's weekend was better than mine. 0108/LastWeekInBlogs0127.png --paul0 . . .
There is a good chance I am going to switch servers today. The new one is up and running at my house and thinks that it is estrip.org - now I just need to switch them out over at the Artvoice data c0 . . .
I swear its all still coming along. Here is a new screen shot of one of the new themes in the new version of the site. i am not done with the theme yet, but I am almost there. 0108/Rosewood0111.j0 . . .
As of tonight it has working DNS, Red5 flash comm server, mail server, php 5.25, mysql 5.0.45 and everything else I wanted. I also have a copy of the current site running on it, an a copy of the new 0 . . .
I decided to start a new category for fuck offs based the messages I get for the site. Here is the latest one. @ 12/21/07 22:57@69.204.48.87 Guest wrote: why does your chatter box show most rec0 . . .
Tonight's e:strip holiday pot luck begins at 7:00 PM at 24 Linwood Ave. Below is a list of members who have so far confirmed and what they're bringing. Anyone who has not yet signed up is0 . . .
I am going to drop the epad in the new version of estrip. I may offer some other substitute in the future but it doesn't look used enough to continue maintaining it. So if you have something in0 . . .
Please sign up in the comments of this post if you're coming to the e:strip holiday dinner, to be held Thursday evening, December 13th (two weeks away) at 24 Linwood. It's a pot luck, so whe0 . . .
Does anyone have any interest in me moving their loudfeeder podcast over to the new server? Did anyone even use it? Same with gather, does anyone have anything important in there or can I just start0 . . .
The newest surebert toolkit is ready but not public yet. However, this means the new server is one step close to launching. I have had it on since I got it, and I am happy to report it is running pe0 . . .
It finally came today and it seems pretty great. I am going to keep it here a bit and install and test and upgrade, then soon I will swap old the old server and we will be on the new one. Thank you 0 . . .
Here at estrip we usually get about 500 unique real visitors coming from javascript enabled browsers. But recently the number started to climb close to 1,000. Its weird there are no new very excepti0 . . .
11/5/2007 6:32:00 PM ORIGIN SCAN WATERTOWN, CT US 11/5/2007 3:56:00 PM BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED US0 . . .
We got us a Dell 1950 server with: 2 x 73GB 15k SAS drives Raid - upgradeable to 1TB 2 x 3.0 GHz dual core xeons - upgradeable to Quad core 4GB ram - upgradeable up to 32GB 1333 mhz front size bus0 . . .
I think I underestimated the price a little bit. So we are back to 78.9%. I could buy a cheaper supermicro server and hope for the best as it is not certified for Centos 5 and has no warranty, or sp0 . . .
Adobe labs released a new mac flash player today that address the file upload problem with leopard and flash player that I reported in e:news,41833. Now all you leopard users including myself can go 0 . . .
As I promised I donated $500 to the server fund bringing us to a total of $1300. I ended up cashing out of secondlife to do it. It was a surprising simple end to a long journey. I really didnƆ . . .
Well, turns out there is a mac os 10.5 specific bug that is causing flash based multi uploads to not work on any browser in leopard. It prentends to work by letting you select the file but then it ne0 . . .
We need about ~$1300 to buy a new, older server. This http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Poweredge-2650-Dual-3-2GHz-4GB-5x73GB-PERC-3D-i_W0QQitemZ110182631819QQihZ001QQcategoryZ51227QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcm0 . . .
Do you know of any stores on elmwood or east elmwood that are selling the "i love buffalo hockey"t-shirts? i can't remember the name of the store that has them Someone wrote to ask m0 . . .
October 10th, Wednesday at 7pm Note: The Sabres and the Bills are not playing this night. E:strip dinner at JJ's Casa di Pizza, at 744 Elmwood (with Parking on Hodge). Sign up in the comme0 . . .
Hello Paul, Paul wrote: Well, I see you haven't sold the estrip.com domain and it has been a while, so I would like to remind you that my offer still stands at $500. Paul Visco http://w0 . . .
Well, it looks like Buffalo is having its second annual Blogtoberfest. Maybe, we should all go and meet the other Buffalo bloggers outside of estrip. I just wish it wasn't at the central termi0 . . .
I updated the journals so that the word count is stamped with " Buffalo, NY" if your zip code matches 14***. If lied on your signup or if you didn't fill out your zip code when signing0 . . .
Sorry e:zobar, it wasn't the RSS feed but I will get to that this week. It is the search box. If you searched for something an done of the journals that came up had a sound in the journal it wa0 . . .
I posted some statistic data for the site about the peeps who have written the most, posted and received the most comments. And blogs by temperature and age statistics. http://estrip.org/elmwood/sta0 . . .
I updated the mini userpics that show when you are online to reflect the number of journals you have to the nearest 50 always rounding down. So, say you have 57 journals it will say 50+ The othe0 . . .
I updated it further so that the meta description of each journal page is the first 100 characters of the the text of the journal stripped of text bling and that the author is your username and a link0 . . .
Whenever you visit a specific journal on the site, the journal's title is now the title of the page. This should make for better search engine optimization and just make it look cooler.0 . . .
So I finally had a good half hour to fix some stuff that has been bothering me. Yesterday it was the comments popping out the bottom pf the journal text area and today I finally fixed the stupid punc0 . . .
I meant to fix this bug for months but I always forget. It took like 4 seconds once I looked into it. the comments no longer pop out the bottom of the journal entry area when they are really long. 0 . . .
For those of you that read the site religiously, it seems like only hours ago e:jim posted "roswellstrip.org" comment on e:libertad,40837 Well that was 143 comments ago. Thats right. I0 . . .
Why does no one ever add audio to their estrip loudfeeder podcasts? 0807/Loudfeeder0827.png I just added some original e:terry live from the original estrip radio station back in 2003 on mine. 0 . . .
I just posted ~68,770 lines of estrip.org chat logs from 2005-10-08 02:27:28 to 2007-04-11 20:52:04. It is a 5.3MB static html file but it should progressively render. You can find it at the bottom 0 . . .
You can now give people your journal address as yourUserName.estrip.org and it will redirect to your latest journal page. For example my journal would be http://paul.estrip.org http://paul.estrip.o0 . . .
This started out as a chat comment but then I decided to make it a journal. Why do you think it is that the Buffalo Media networks both online and offline media has never recognized our existence bes0 . . .
Thanks to a heads up from e:leetee we squashed the user online status bug. It now no longer shows that everyone is online when they aren't. Thanks e:leetee0 . . .
Here is a graph of all the comments since we implemented them back in mid 2005. Some interesting blips in activity to think about. +---------+-------------+ | tstamp | comments | +---------+----0 . . .
Fixed the categories list bug that was introduced during the last update. Thanks mrdeadlier :)0 . . .
They just came out with a real mozilla based browser for my favorite mobile device, my "not phone" - the nokia n800. I was using it to surf estrip and I wanted to test flash stuff because i0 . . .
Fixed the search results bug. Try searching for holly hunter or "holly hunter" now using the main search link above. There was a bug in the alt tags which was resulting in all images in 0 . . .
1. The months cloud list now only loads journal from the month selected. Before it started with the month selected and went back 10 journal entries even if they were in another month which made it r0 . . .
Some of you may have noticed that the site was down this afternoon. It was due to a power outage at Artvoice where the server lives. Seems like everything is back up and running smoothly. Thanks wh0 . . .
Someone wrote to me about the following photo contest. I don't normally post stuff that people send me because I think everyone should start their own journal but this seemed like something a lo0 . . .
Can some of you with access to other web sites add links back to estrip? I am playing with google analytics and want to see how it affects it. You could use the sticker code on the front page of est0 . . .
Safari For Windows just came out which makes it a lot easier to keep everything the same on all platforms. It is really time for IE to catch up or shut down their broswer development. The safari 0 . . .
Moved the server from the upstairs to the downstairs of artvoice. TOok only a couple minutes and everything went smoothy. Thank you Jaimie Moses for letting us serve from you data center and thanks 0 . . .
The multi-file image upload is back. I would have fixed it earlier in the day but I had to go get drunk at Thursday n the Square first. For future reference, whenever something is broken on the main0 . . .
The journal area now stretches the whole way down past the user data. I am now compressing surebert with gzip instead of javascript. The themes and latest journal box is no longer pushed down in0 . . .
I received this message on the 6th but didn't notice it until today. this seems like a fantsic community internet asset and I wanted to pass along the info. Hi Paul, I am writing because I0 . . .
Now that i have discovered all these journals from elementary school I can't think of a better place to put them than here. The thing is they were written in 1985. I am debating how to handle0 . . .
I fixed the bug that e:mike noticed when trying to go back or forward after clicking on a date in the date cloud. You can now safely travel through time.0 . . .
Paul Well posted 1 blog so far, seems you group is rather unfriendly. What you cannot promote yourself? Two unkind remarks already, maybe your group is not worth hanging around. e:fairyastara , 0 . . .
Well this is more of a pre-announcement but I am getting rid of the date drop down in favor of the date selection cloud. Months with more journals are bigger. Here is an example from the developme0 . . .
Same as always, we lost again. Maybe next year e:lilho will vote. The food was tasty again. I particularly liked the ribs. I still can't upload anything on my time warner connection or even 0 . . .
Be sure not to miss the Best of Buffalo party, Monday April 30 at the Town Ballroom (681 Main St) from 6-9pm, with complimentary food from Buffalo's best restaurants, and live music with the Skif0 . . .
Hello, My name is Paul Visco and I have operated a non-profit blogging called estrip.org since 2003. I noticed that estrip.com is no longer around and was wondering if you would relinquish the domai0 . . .
In order to make the site more intriguing and welcoming to new members in our push to expand to at least 500 writers we are going to put the top 20ish categories right on the front page so people can 0 . . .
So I wrote them this letter. I hope they are willing to sell it as I am so tired of explaining that we are not estrip.com. I might ask for some donations again depending how much it costs. Hello0 . . .
I re-wrote the userpic maker as a surebert app. If you want to crop userpics from images you found on the internet, you may find it useful. Click on the image below to test it out. 0407/UpicMaker00 . . .
Looks like e:decoyisryan wrote e:strip's 4,000,000th word last night. I can't believe it has gotten this far. When I first wrote e:news,29677 back in 2003 I never dreamed so many people wo0 . . .
next prev 10 buttons work again date select works again public/draft mode eyeball icon at the bottom of each entry works again sorry mobl posting via email is still under devel e:dragonlady 0 . . .
I updated lots of the backend code today. The site should be even faster to load journals now, not that it was particularly slow. I added some more stuff to my caching routine so that it would be n0 . . .
It should be all okay now. Just got a message from Jake at artvoice. Hi Paul, I was working on our router last evening. One of the T1 serial interface cables still seems to be faulty, but I th0 . . .
I updated a bunch of back-end stuff today. I also fixed the search and the surebert multi-file upload button glitch e:imk2 was talking about. should be set to go now. If for some reason it cannot c0 . . .
I have ported over a bunch of changes from a port of the site I am working on at work. 99% of it is backend and security changes. Fixed the RSS feeds too. Message me if anything is out of the o0 . . .
There has been a change in the system that required me to change the ID of journal entries. Each journal has a new id that is longer, 20000 longer to be exact. The old ones will forward. The est0 . . .
Well, the database got corrupted a bit today. I think it is fixed now but it makes me wonder if the databases hardrive is going to fail soon. I have backed up the database everyday for over a year. 0 . . .
It;'s that time of year again when we lose the annual Artvoice Best of Buffalo Award ;( 0207/BestOfBuffalo0220.gif Maybe this year we could win if everyone voted estrip.org for BEST LOCAL W0 . . .
I did some bug fixing and updates today. It sucks so bad right now on my slow computer. I am ready for a new faster one with more RAM. I am sure something is fucked up, if it is -go ahead and leav0 . . .
Well we made it. 5,000,000 views since Dec 24th, 2004. The kind of thing we should have done a press release about but i am too busy nowadays. Thanks everyone for your contribution to this by wri0 . . .
The non-mobile version of the site should work normal in Linux Konqueror now. I switched it to use the old upload system for konqueror. There is still no sound in Konqueror but other than that it 0 . . .
What are we going to do for 5 millions views since Dec 24, 2003. It is going to happen very soon. Right now we are at 4,966,965 views right now. We are also just short of 4 million words. paul0 . . .
I fixed the IE error that would not let you open up a new comment. It appears that IE reports an image as having a href property. That is lame. I was using it like if the thing you clicked doesn;t 0 . . .
Chris, We do not advertise on estrip. It is one of our main objectives to maintain a commercial free public space as we have done for four years. Your site has advertisements on it in the form of g0 . . .
I can't believe the site has been around for four years. When I first thought of it after reading about The Well http://www.well.com/ in Howard Rheingolds book virtual Communities http://www.rhe0 . . .
I fixed it so the inline external links e.g. http://www.paulvisco.org work again by automatically opening in a new window, instead of you having to right click and open in new window. Hope that helps0 . . .
Fixed the message window and mail window problem where they were not opening up in new windows.0 . . .
I went to go see that stupid Pan's Labyrinth movie last night. I was so disgusted by it I decided to go to bed afterwards to not allow my mind to associate any of the feelings I was having with 0 . . .
I fixed the operation aborted error in IE. After a most stressful day of documenting thousands of lines of javascript, I found some spare time and an IE 6 and 7 machine to test the site on and fix th0 . . .
I am going to be updating the ram a little after 5PM today on the server. It will be down for a brief time.0 . . .
Message Replies Added new feature so you can respond to messages sent by other logged in peeps directly. Just click the post-it icon in their message. Mobile site comments page Updated the mobil0 . . .
I rewrote 99% of the javascript for the site and compressed it into much more efficient files. Everything accept for the stupid yahoo map loader. I am considering just ditching it as it as big as all0 . . .
I updated the system to use the new surebert 2.11 for which there might be some problems. You guys are the beta testers. Anyhow, I returned the restore backup button which records everything you a0 . . .
Thanks Nick Matteliano for having the sheriff call me at work around 3PM about the google and yahoo cache. He wasn't sure how they worked and wanted to see if I controlled them. It seems a lit0 . . .
Paul, It has come to my attention that Bruce's letter to you is posted and it contains personal information (i.e. our last names). This is not directly in violation of your terms of service, h0 . . .
The bug happens in IE when a DOM node is appended to the body before the body finishes loading. It is lame and fucking stupid that it can;t just gracefully die like other systems/errors. It is especi0 . . .
There were lots of peeps in the chat tonight. Welcome to the site all you new peeps. If you need any help getting started feel free to contact e:paul or just talk with anyone in the chat. 0107/Peep0 . . .
I updated the server but didn't get to upgrade it much. I did however get to clean out a nasty bunch of dead bug bodies that had somehow gotten inside it. I purchased some more RAM for the se0 . . .
On Thursday night the the site will be down for a while after 6PM in order to perform some routine maintenance on the server. We are going to be relocating the server from one floor to another at Art0 . . .
Well we had our first use of the terms of service agreement today. An attorney contacted the site today in reference to e:lilho 's journal about her ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend. I have re0 . . .
Hey there e:peep, If you haven't written in your elmwoodstrip.org journal in a long time, the New Year is a great time begin again. There are some brand new features such as being able to include 0 . . .
In honour of e:kara's comment on my journal about the wii, I have added a new gvideo tag to your tag options in the journal entry box. It works just like the youtube tag with the id of the video in0 . . .
Multiple file tracked uploads I have created a multi file upload system for users with flash 8. If you have flash 8 you should see the new "NEW: select multiple media files to upload button&quo0 . . .
Gather Estrip's file sharing service known as Gather now works with safari. I updated the look and functionality of it. You now have post-its that represent all the files you have uploaded which ha0 . . .
Well one good thing came out of this e:ladycroft and e:matthew drama. I figured one of the stupid comment bugs that was forcing the comments to not show up in the right order sometimes! Finally. Ok0 . . .
It's been a while. I would like to rewrite everything and add a million features at least to take advantage of the new surebert but I have been so busy. I fixed the bug that arrised from surebert 10 . . .
Are You Ready to Kick the Habit - At No Cost? Roswell Park Cancer Institute is seeking volunteers for a quit smoking study. Eligible smokers will receive quit smoking medication and group counselin0 . . .
Sorry the server had a little spat of depression. He feel better now.0 . . .
So it's not the house warming party but its the annual e:terry's 26th and e:mike's 23rd birthday party and maybe my graduation party? Everyone is invited. Feel free to bring whoever you want, we have0 . . .
Today we reached our 16,000th journal entry. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this project and shared a part of their life with the fabric which makes up the digital quilt that is estrip.0 . . .
No not the green party but green like environmentally friendly. My cousin is conducting a survey about building environmentally friendly houses for a project. Please go to http://www.thegreensurvey.0 . . .
I fixed the bug that occured when you used the search box or a the epoetry window to get to a journal entry and the text from teh search or the line of epoetry was not highlighted in the journal. May0 . . .
Surebert 1.42 fixes a bug introduced by Adobe and Flash Player 9 which cause the page to give an out of memory error in IE when the page had more than one flash movie embedded which used the javascrip0 . . .
I got this as a site message otday. Hi there! I wanted to invite you and your readers to see the documentary The War Tapes (the critically acclaimed Iraq War documentary filmed by three NH Nationa0 . . .
Categories are now in alphabetical order, sorry about that. You are also now seeing surebert 1.38. --paul0 . . .
The site is now using surebertCom 1.38. I squashed a whole bunch of mostly IE bugs. IE and firefox should almost be on par. I also added a new feature where if you egt a new site message while on th0 . . .
I upraded to the lastest surebertCom 1.27. You may need to empty your cache but by using surebertCom I was able to reduce hundreds of useless lines of IE code. You should notice that the control p0 . . .
I switched everything over to surebertCom 1.22 If you notice any problems please send me an email. I did notice right away that it fixed the message pop up box selectAll and send mass message toggle.0 . . .
I was writing a comment for e:zobar,89 and it turned into this entry. Well, having dealt with the news a bit, it seems that "The News" does not search for what is going on but rather reli0 . . .
After hours of testing and pretending to be e:twisted on her verizon phone I was able to first all fix it so that MMS message that get base64 encoded get decoded when sent to your journal and more imp0 . . .
I fixed the wap chat. You can now chat when logged in from any WAP enabled phone. Basically, any phone since 1999. If you aren't logged in you can read teh chat. Just visit estrip.org/wap or simply0 . . .
Tonight we are going to sidewalk e:paul,771 chalking on elmwood around midnight if enough peeps are interested. I will bring chalk. Who wants to go? This time we can make it more artistic seeing 0 . . .
Okay, this effected no one accept me and e:enknot but I fixed the flash sound layer that plays mp3 sounds when you upload them into your journal. You can see an example here e:enknot,32 0 . . .
Now you can once again use your email or your cell phone's email for posting to your estrip.org journal. Simply send an email to mobl AT estrip.org from your phones email. Before you get started mak0 . . .
I am going to recommend that anyone seiorus about the mobile web check out this phone. I paid $599 for it last year and right now it is on sale for $299. It is the Sprint PPC 6700 and has a querty k0 . . .
There was a typo that was causing the userpics to not switch. I just fixed it. Thank e:zobar for the heads up.0 . . .
I updated a bunch of stuff. e:Strip is finally running on the surebertCom javascript ui library which probably means nothing to everyone but e:enknot but basically after weeks of coding and standardi0 . . .
So for those of you that didn't know this, in 2003, e:strip started out as my Thesis project for my Masters In Fine Arts at UB. It is finally almost time for me to hand in my thesis. In order to co0 . . .
I still have a surplus of magnetic e:strip bumper stickers. Does anyone not have one that wants and/or needs one? I have been sticking them on random cars at this point to try and get rid of them. 0 . . .
I updated the autosave system so that it you don't need to check the box and it saves anytime you type a letter. The most you will lose is the last letter you typed. Because it is not on a timer, it0 . . .
I promise to make a better sound player very soon. The new one under the userpics is temporary. But better than what was there.0 . . .
I am in the process of updating the site to my new javascript libraries. I am going to certify that everything works in IE 6 and the latest firefox. Safari is going to be tested at the end. Hopeful0 . . .
The mobile video player is now much more sophisticated and look nicer. Just hit the e:video button to begin playing them. You can seek to any point in the video even one that hasn't loaded by draggi0 . . .
If you don't already have firefox on automatic update you should, but if you don't you should upgrade to version 1.5.0.4 right away. They fixed a lot of bugs and some security issues that were pretty0 . . .
This is a post written from IE. It is not having errors on IE 6 windwos XP? 0506/rideForRoswell5525.png 0 . . .
Bumper Sticker Party First I need to give everyone their bumper stickers. How about tonight at our house. How about 8PM? 444 Linwood Avenue 444 Linwood Avenue New e:strip To Go Club On anoth0 . . .
e:ajay who works at yahoo wrote to me suggesting I use yahoo maps instead of the links to google maps that occur when you use the link tag in your journal. At first I was skeptical because I tried ou0 . . .
You can now listen to the comments using flash by clicking listen under the comments or by tuning into the podcast. When I am done with work tonight, I will add the journal podcast. Just subscribe0 . . .
You can now listen to the comments podcast. When I am done with work tonight, I will add the journal podcast. Just subscribe to it in itunes under advanced->subscribe to podcast or use you othe0 . . .
Now you can look up both google and yahoo maps in the chat. to look up a yahoo map: ymap 1600 elmwood avenue to look up a google map: map 1600 elmwood avenue Please read the two previous po0 . . .
I wonder if anyone has tried the (list by month) link under the userpics. It breaks down the journal by month. Each dot represents a journal. Orange ones have categories, red ones do not. If you a0 . . .
After all the drama, the estrip bumpster stcikers are here and they arwe awesome. They are really bright orange, the picture doesn't do it justice. Like brighter than e:jenks orange shoes. 0506/e0 . . .
I forgot to mention this. I removed my script for making trasnparent PNGs in IE. For example you may notice the conrol panel icons and theme icons have blue/grey backgrounds whereever they shoudl 0 . . .
I totally rewrote the autosave system. It is used to save your journal to your local system. Autosave is on by default. To turn it off uncheck the autosave box above your jorunal entry box. SAVE 0 . . .
I hate advertising for companies but I would love it if more people could use all the mobile features of estrip. While estrip WAP estrip.org/wap version works with just about every cell phone in exis0 . . .
I updated the (more) comments system to behave more like the comments on the front page. 0506/moreComments23925.png Clicking on the more link take syou here: 0506/moreComments2029.png Wh0 . . .
Vincent, I am so sorry I accidentally deleted you journal. Luckily, I back up the server each night so I can restore you to yesterday this afternoon. --update - I restored all the text of your jou0 . . .
Total Views Approaches 3,000,000 Let's have a 3,000,000 journal viewing since 12/03 party. Seeing as I never paid attention to the total views stats before, i have no idea how fast this will happen. 0 . . .
I changed it so that all map links automatically default to hyrbid satellite/street map view. You don;t have to do anything to update your old map links. Speaking of map links. Anyone post to rem0 . . .
This is so early preview but I figured someone might have fun playing with it. 0506/liveEditor2738.png 0 . . .
This is a list I compiled of all the peep sthat have more than 100 journal entries in order of the most journals to the least. I also fixed the bug where it would play usersounds by defualt, even if 0 . . .
Something happend at artvoice and all their network connections went down - so our site went down too. Maybe e:zobar knows more about it. Seems to be back now and everything looks okay.0 . . .
For those select few of you that have your own estrip webmail I have upgraded the webmail program and the email server so that your draft, trash, and sent boxes work again. In order to enable them, s0 . . .
Everything is good now. Silly PDO for SQLITE 3 is so tricky.0 . . .
Should be done soon. You should notice any change. 0506/compiling0525.gif 0 . . .
Today is the day the new PHP 5.1.4 has entered my life. We are at version 5.1.2 on e:strip and moving on to version 5.1.4 this evening. I already installed it on all the windows servers at work. No0 . . .
First of congratulations to buffalopundit for winning best blog. I appologize that e:lilho stared booing. Turns out she didn't even vote,lol. I requested that no one vote for us as best blog bein0 . . .
I fixed it so that the email properly reports who it was sent from. There was a bug where the sender was showing up blank.0 . . .
I was looking at the other competition for best local blog and I think there is a possibilty of winning. It all depends of how people perceived the meaning of blog. We are more of a blogging communi0 . . .
Get you mini icon work featured on estrip. I am looking for people to create some new estrip emoticons for the chat. If you are interested email me a set of 3 icons and the words or emoticon punctua0 . . .
I saw e:scott's comment about how he updated his theme, so here is the new visual. 0506/scottTheme2435.png I am thinking about adding a preference option to have it "autoplay" a user'0 . . .
metalpeter 0506/metalpeter0245.png scott 0506/scott0245.png leetee 0506/leetee0245.png For instructions on makig yor own custom theme see e:news,820 0 . . .
It's been a busy night. You can now edit your own custom color themes. The color picker comes with no instructions other than these few simple ones. Open up the custom color control panel by 0 . . .
I added a feature that asks if you would like to save your journal text when you navigate away from your journal in the middle of writing an entry. You used to just lose all your text if you left y0 . . .
Here it goes. I have okayed the offical request to get the bumper stickers and received the proofs. Soon we will have 250 stickers. 0406/customerAuthorization2932.png 0406/estripBumperSticker30 . . .
Comments are officially fixed, now you can even go to the comment page without being logged in and then log in and it remmebers where you are leaving the comment. Sorry about the problems it wa shavin0 . . .
The bumper sticker orders went in today. We will be receiving 250 magnetic bumperstickers in approximately 7-10 business days. Thanks to everyone who donated to the fund. 0406/bumperOrangeExpande0 . . .
I updated the rss feeds. Fixed a couple character glitches and moved the address to make them easier to get to. I also added a new feed. RSS is a convenient way to read teh strip on without using a 0 . . .
comments fixed I really fixed comments. Just to make sure you are posting comments to the correct journal and id#, it now shows you were comment is getting posted to right on the add comment form pa0 . . .
I fixed lots of little bugs that were left from the old system today. I also re-wrote a large amount of javascript and AJAX stuff. What got fixed/changed: 1. No more flickering everytime it che0 . . .
The latest entries refreshes itself every 60 seconds. If you want to reload it before that without leaving the page, just hit the (reload 12) link at the bottom on the list and it will manually relo0 . . .
I have so much freakin cool stuff in store but I have so littel time to implement it all. Anyways, the first thing to complement the comments thing on the fron page is a new 3D live data comments gra0 . . .
We got our reverse DNS and our email problems have been solved. If you have been having any issues receiving yoru comments, emails or SMS text messages - it shoudl all be good to go now. Thanks for 0 . . .
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you as I am currently selling the domain www.estrip.com. I would like to ask whether you would be interested in purchasing this in a quick sale. The quality of th0 . . .
e:kara re-wrote the front page and had me add something that shows the latest comments with a link to who wrote them and what journal it came from. I think it's great. There is also the code to add 0 . . .
Thanks e:jenks for mentioning the safari bug. The problem was blocking most of the other javascripts from working on safari and that is why the site appeared to not work. E.g you probably couldn't o0 . . .
Sorry it took me so long to publish this repsonse. I refused to publish it until I changed the site code to check for real e:name links before I wrote it because I didn't want e:strip to show up as a0 . . .
point your links to estrip First thing first. If you have your own website or some other place where you post links, please make sure to point your links to estrip.org. The more people that points 0 . . .
They now properly highlight the search terms in the journal they come from. Try out one of the epoetry poems by clicking on the epoetry tag on the top right of the site. When you click on any of the0 . . .
I am going to order the bumper sticker very soon, if anyone is gonna donate now would be a good time. 0406/estripGreen0128.png 0 . . .
hangman is on a little break whiel i upgrade some stuff. The site should be ecen faster now and I have some more upgrades comming soon.0 . . .
I was telling e:terry about how I changed the title of estrip today after estrip.org came though and explaining to e:twisted about how Buffalo is the home of the original chicken wing, which led to th0 . . .
Well, e:kara our new Public Relations director and I were talking about some improvements for getting estrip out there and one of the things was bumper stickers. I had put it off for a while because 0 . . .
Here is a fun statistic to think about. If you read an average of 200 words per minute which is 12,000 words per hour which is 288,000 per day which is 2,880,000 per 10 days of non stop reading 0 . . .
I fixed teh usersound upload feature and added a feature so you can redownload it before you change it if you lost the original. That way you can redownload it if you want.0 . . .
I noticed the RSS feed on e:dragonlady's livejournal feed http://syndicated.livejournal.com/z0bar/ had messged up apostrophe's that resulted when I was stripping the ampersands for some javascript I 0 . . .
Thanks e:terry for bringing it up. You can now you a normal letter e with colon in a sentence. e.g. A woman on a cell phone: uh huh....yeah....yeah..uh huh...the one you thought was underwear...y0 . . .
I moved the AIM and YIM control panel into the preference CP.0 . . .
The server went down. It's back up again now and it looks like everything is still there. Thanks e:zobar for taking time out of your saturday to go restart it.0 . . .
I have created another application like picfeeder http://www.elmwoodstrip.org/picfeeder This one is called loudfeeder and allows you to make your own podcasts for sharing music and sound with program0 . . .
Okay now I added instructions and a bunch of other features and checks. Anyone who wants a photo sharing RSS feed should check it out. You get a free account by being an epeep. Just log in with you0 . . .
I updated picfeeder to optimize it for smaller screens. I also fixed a couple bugs and added new features, like the ability to delete individual items from the feed. 0306/picfeeder5520.png 0 . . .
You can already beta test picfeeder. Just log in with your estrip id. Each user has there own rss feed that they can populate by adding a title, description and attaching a picture. It gives you 0 . . .
I will be releasing a new photo commentary RSS app this weekend. Each estrip user can have their own photo commentary photo feed. You guys will love them I promise. On another note there are like0 . . .
I was chatting with e:zobar today when he linked to a google map. I realized that he had to look it up and then paste the link which got truncated. It made me realize the chat should be smart enough0 . . .
API page got a new look. I think it makes more sense. I moved the broswer war under the hangman and userpics. I moved the epoetry link above the hangman, new icon for remember buffalo. Added a0 . . .
I got rid of the plabs link under the banner. I will be moving the ocntents to other place. In it's place you will find a new "tutorial" link. It will eventually be the link to the offical0 . . .
e:jenks I took your advice and made it so that your journal sound preference determines if you hear everyone else's music instead of determining if yours is played automatically when other people vis0 . . .
important e and inlink changes The major update is that I got rid of inlinks. Yes, that is right, I did what I should have done two years ago and just made it that you can use the elinks to make a l0 . . .
I really need help with this. It is critical that i find someone to finish/restart/create the new user documentation in addition to finding someone to update the help files and then stay current wit0 . . .
Chat emoticons are working again.0 . . .
I fixed it so that there are three sound tracks. What does this mean for you. It means you can listen to usersounds even while the chat and other noises are happening.0 . . .
The site should be faster now. There was a runaway process eating up the server resources.0 . . .
I switched it so that journal music auto play is off by default. You can easily turn it on in your prefernces if you want. Users can always play and pause the music by using the play button under yo0 . . .
It now works allow syou to pick up dropped off files in IE. I guess there was a bug I hadn;t tested for IE. It also send syou a confirmation email with the pickup information so that you can't lose 0 . . .
Chat Archives I have finally dried out the latest 11,700 lines of estrip chat into an achive file. You can find it on the media page with all other chat since 2004 or simply click on the picture bel0 . . .
I fixed the sound for safari. Thanks to e:jenks for noticing it was broken. Or wait maybe I hate e:jenks for using safari - j/k. No it's good because she catches all the bugs. If you want sound 0 . . .
I just noticed the quick correct button was broken so I fixed it. It is the one that looks like a chidlrens block under above the publish button. It quickly corrects common typos such as "teh&q0 . . .
it will be back soon - the chat that is in the mean time you can chat here http://www.surebert.com/talkbox -paul0 . . .
Welcome to Gather http://www.elmwoodstrip.org/gather - An e:strip file sharing utility to help peeps share files with each other on and off their journals. After uploading a file, you will be given a0 . . .
0306/bestofbuffalo0511.jpg Well, it's been another year since we didn't win the Artvoice Best of 2005 contest. I hope maybe this year we will have a better chance. I think last year a lot of peop0 . . .
I fixed the userpic maker so that you once again can cut userpics out of web based images without having to use photoshop. You can even use it to cut userpics out of images on your journal. Basicall0 . . .
Jenks, the email a post from your mobile function works again with the new code. Using this you can post from a non WAP/XHTML mobile phone to your journal including both text, sound, and images. T0 . . .
I moved the userpic upload and usersound upload buttons back into the control panel at the top of the page. This should make it easier for people to find and use them. Your profile is now an actual 0 . . .
Last night I upgraded about 50 files involved in the site code and it got really late so I left my text editor open with all the files saved so that I knew which ones to upload in the morning. Then0 . . .
I am slowly going to giving out larger file space. The first upgrade is that your usersound is now allowed to be up to 5MB. Right now in firefox there is a flash player that plays the sound by displ0 . . .
Under every user's userpic is the Journal Overview and Journal Dots link. I updated them and fixed them so that they are both finding the styles again. Joural Overview is the title, link to and fi0 . . .
I was going through some stuff today when I found this old picture of estrip in 2003, when it was pretty much my journal and my personal friends. Wow, how much it has grown since then. Here we are m0 . . .
This is about the RAM post paul,4143 I wrote yesterday. Thanks e:jenks and e:uncutsaniflush for donating to the RAM drive, you guys are awesome. Should I name it the jenks-uncut chip or the uncut-jen0 . . .
The site has been transfered to the new server. I am still leaving the old one up for a bit just in case. Unfortunately, elmwoodstrip.com.org has not fully transfered everywhere. I believe in some pl0 . . .
I was doing my usual search for the site robot hunt when I found this link to e:flacidness's journal (TK) on cum-dump-bitch.givemesex.info http://cum-dump-bitch.givemesex.info/ Elmwood Strip Journa0 . . .
I think I finally squashed the bug where you would change pages and you mute preference would reset. The same bug squash should have also fixed the problme where the message box pops up on every scre0 . . .
I was wondering what you guys think about this. I record what theme everyone selects when logged in. Should I make it so that the theme you have selected is the one that shows when your journal is b0 . . .
Wanna Help Out Help If more people are interested in working on the help files with e:uncutsaniflush, we can probably get through them all in about a week or so if there were more people. If you are0 . . .
So, the other day I was complaining about all the work for the site and trying to think about what would make it easier. Then e:ucnutsaniflush had the brilliant idea to write a newbie guide to get ne0 . . .
I added two new themes today. They might still get changed some bit, but they are usable now. One is called Polluted River and is about the Niagara RIver. The colors came from a vector illustartion0 . . .
Good news, I fixed the image upload bug from yesterday, you can now upload images again. It was due to a switch in the mobile media upload code. Unfortunately, I didn't upload the changes after maki0 . . .
The last winner now links to the last winner's journal. It also keeps track of score. You can see your current score at the top of your journal in the stats bar after views. It only shows up if you0 . . .
Sorry, someone had hijacked our email server and the hosting company shut us down for spam. I think I have it all fixed now. You can no longer email peeps as guest. I appologize for any inconvenienc0 . . .
Microsoft Corp. Monday told Mac users of its Internet Explorer that they should switch to a rival browser such as Apple's Safari before IE support ends. Although the Redmond, Wash.-based developer0 . . .
Hangman only plays when you are logged in. The bots were playing to much. I also fixed the problem with guess accumulating between word sets.0 . . .
1. Thanks e:uncutsaniflush, he helped me discover what everyone thought was the apostrophe eating bug in the chat. It actually had nothing to do with apostrophes, and everything to do with a few spel0 . . .
I updated the chat and the hangman game. Hangman now works for IE in addition to firefox. I also squashed some minor chat bugs that may have caused problem on some comps. Seems snappier in explorer0 . . .
The radio is retiring with him. Shortly, we will bring you a new music station. Until then it was fun and thanks Dr. Chlorine!!0 . . .
I saw the problem at work today where the site tries to be forced to download on IE 6 for windows XP. I am writing this in IE now but on this computer it doesn't do it. At work, there are lots of se0 . . .
You can now upload image files up to 1024k (1MB). They will be resized automatically making it easier if you do not have image editing software. I may make it higher in the future. After we move 0 . . .
Remember back in he day there was that draggable blue box where you could see the userpics of the peeps logged in. I ressurected part of that code but rewrote it all as javascript. After about 3 se0 . . .
Thanks to surebert http://www.surebert.com you can now load extra title sinto the latest entries box. To do so, just click on the (+) under the top twelve list. To the twelve lastest just click (re0 . . .
I added the snow back to the site. To make it go away click on the red one. It won't come back until you restart the brwoser. You can remove white ones by clicking on them too. If you really hat0 . . .
I redid a lot more site internals in order to speed stuff up. Afterwards, I finished the mobile XHTML site beta today. It isn't just for mobile users. It may help those of you on slow dialup conne0 . . .
I did a major upgrade to the online guests code today. It should make it much more efficient in terms of computer resources and also allows for some future expansion to display mobile users. I wish 0 . . .
thank god for e:twisted. she logged onto the site and right away spotted that typing an & in the chat was truncating it. I fixed it now, hopefully that is the problem everyone else was having. 0 . . .
I switched the flash movie on the front page to the image with the walking person. You can play with them using the mouse. It is a much simpler calculation than the leaves so have fun. If you click0 . . .
Got this message form Jamie Moses. Does anyone want to go with us? We are going to go on Sunday Night! Hope you can make it to see the Artvoice documentary film "On The Run: the race for may0 . . .
I upgraded all of the ajax stuff to run on my surebert API. If you have any problems try deleting your cache as you may have older versions of the javascript cached in your browser. I tried changing0 . . .
Everythign shoudl be ok now. Thanks for your patience with the process.0 . . .
During a recent facility inspection, Facility Engineers have found it necessary to correct a power issue that affects the server you are on. The facility engineers will need to take the server down t0 . . .
Don't forget about the e:strip hallloween party this saturday at 444 Linwood Avenue 1005/halloweenparty4835.gif 0 . . .
Comments got updated today so that the email they come in is adressed from the person that sent the comment. So say e:theecarey sends a comment to e:ladycroft. e:ladycroft can now simply reply to th0 . . .
We received an award from artvoice today for having been nomianted for Best Blog in Buffalo. 1005/estripAward3905.jpg0 . . .
1005/halloween20636.jpg We are having our annual "e:strip Halloween Party" this year on Saturday, October 29th! 8:00pm until the sun comes up the next morning. Costumes are not mandator0 . . .
Categories have been moved to a (show categories) link under your userpic. There is no reason to have to load them each time, especially now that people have began to use categories like subtitles. 0 . . .
The show more link now renders the links in the main journal area as expected.0 . . .
I changed the add comments link to be a normal end of journal icon. It matches the comment icon in the latest entries list. When you roll over it, it tells you how many comments there are. 1005/a0 . . .
For those of you that weren't online during the tragedy, we had a close call when I accidentally deleted elmwoodstrip.org from the face of the internet. Well not the media you uploaded or the site co0 . . .
I added an auto spell check to the chat that fixes the most common typos. It uses the same word list that the quick correct button does in the journal publish box. 1005/imageChat2731.png 1005/0 . . .
We finally decided on a name and as you can probably guess it is the Remember Buffalo Project. We bought the url rememberbuffalo.org/com but it won't be up for another day or so. In the meantime you0 . . .
I decided to extract the chat from the site into a side project I am working on called p:chat. http://3pad.us/pchat You can alsoaccess it from the top of the freedom chat. It allows you to start a p0 . . .
Site Video Section We need new videos for the video section ( on the linkbar ) of the site. The ones there are so old and are getting stale. I would like to have some new ones up within the next tw0 . . .
I was really bored in the library today and decided to make a new theme. I am pretty sure its done, although I make make some slight alterations. Caramel Apple is now the default theme. If you have0 . . .
Fixed the profile so that it is easier to fill out and the update button works on linux again. As always, you can edit your profile, update your userpic, and upload a usersound by clicking on your us0 . . .
Fixed the profile so that it is easier to fill out and the update button works on linux again. As always, you can edit your profile, update your userpic, and upload a usersound by clicking on your us0 . . .
I moved the radio link to a user's only feature. It is now a prominently displayed radio icon in the icon bar at the top left of the site. If you roll over the little radio pic it tells you what is 0 . . .
The login and control panel have been moved up to the top left of the page in order to bring the chat up and make more room for it seeing as it is getting used so much. Also don't forget that you can0 . . .
You can post to the chat now on a cell phone thanks to Sarah Ho's Request. You need to log in first at elmwoodstrip.com/wap0 . . .
I need a someone or couple estrip savy veteran peeps who want to be official greeters/helpers. It's not very demanding. You would ber interacting with people about question on how to use the site an0 . . .
I added chat to the wap site for e:lilho. I will allow people to post to the chat after i go get a guiness at the pink. In the mean time read the chat at elmwoodstrip.org/wap on your wap compatible 0 . . .
1. Does anyone want to be a sports writer? You don't have to already be a member of the site but I would like someone to cover local sports and sport issues. 2. When I get some time, I am going 0 . . .
I have updated the latest entries box to display the number of media (images, sound, video) included with each entry. If you roll over the mini icons, it will tell you how many of that type of media 0 . . .
e:theecarey had made a point that sometimes it is not easy to now what comments have been made. I forgot to tell everyone a couple months ago when I added comments to the search box. Maybe it needs 0 . . .
As suggested, I moved all the embed video and audio media to links that you can open by clicking on the corresponding audio or video link icon. This will avoid problems with linux when playing the0 . . .
It is my please to announce that e:uncutsaniflush has been officially promoted to help admin status. He can begin updating and editing help as soon as he wants. Congratulations and thanks for volunt0 . . .
Sorry about the inconvenience. The hosting facility had a problem that required them to reboot the e:strip server, it was out of my hands. We had about 4 hours of down time this morning. That was o0 . . .
Today, I received some local unsolicited political email on the site from patrickrantz@yahoo.com . I have not investigated it, but it was sent to me via the email link under my userpic. It was tell0 . . .
Artvoice Best of Buffalo Party On another note, who wants to go to the Artvoice Party on Monday from 6-9 to see if we won the best blog in Buffalo contest. I really hope we do, somehow it would just0 . . .
Have a happy birthday e:ladycroft. Hope to see everyone at the party on saturday! 0905/hapbirthhoedown3335.mid 0 . . .
I added support for the .amr audio file format. It is a highly compressed audio file format that is used on mobile phones. Like the 3gpp mobile video format I added before, it's default player is qu0 . . .
Anyone want to go to the Artvoice Absolut party on Septemeber 12th to see if we came in as Buffalo's #1 blog site? It is Monday from 6-9PM. Maybe a bunch of us should go, it could be fun. I have a0 . . .
The banner is finally hanging on elmwood again across from spot coffee. Thanks guys! 0805/0896279001125250591.jpg0 . . .
As e:uncutsaniflush mentioned, we made it into the top three blogs in Buffalo in the artvoice top 3 vote. Thanks to everyone who voted. I just hope people reading know it is elmwoodstrip.com. I am0 . . .
I put together a couple new flyers. now let's just see if I hand any out. Anyone want to get involved with PR? I need a hand with it. 0805/tortoiseColor4532.jpg 0805/phones4532.png 0805/ey0 . . .
As I said yesterday in the chatbox, internet explorer 7 beta is now available http://www.softpedia.com/progdownload/internet-explorer-7-download-25028.html for download. I hate IE just as much as t0 . . .
I added some new themesand brought back a bunch of old ones after some retrofitting. Here are 11 themes now minus the amerika style which was just for the party. To switch the theme go to the homepa0 . . .
So people always ask me, why I don't start having advertisements to support the site. I have about 10,000 reasons but they say a picture says a thousand words. This is an article about a Nagasaki Re0 . . .
Quick correct is one of the best features on the site. You simply click on the little letter block cube in your journal publish box and viola, the words are fixed. Currently it corrects the followin0 . . .
A good chance for you to check out virtual reality as part of Infringement Festival '05. A festival within a festival featuring works http://resumbrae.com/infringe of virtual reality fictionand dram0 . . .
Well e:Shawnr wrote a great press release for the site announcing 10k entries. We will be sending it out to the various media sources. You can check it out on the media assets page which I am curren0 . . .
Sorry for the late notice, but for those of you that have never been, the Buffalo Garden Walk is one of Buffalo's premier free events involving over 200 private gardens in the city. Basically, you ca0 . . .
9 of 10 teens now using the Internet ... Nearly half have cell phones to keep in touch with home and friends. They text message their friends. They think e-mail is something used to talk to "old 0 . . .
As if the low bandwith mode upgrade wasn't enough I have added two new things. Theme Support Theme support so that you can choose which theme you want to see. To switch themes just click on the 0 . . .
I totally redid low bandwidth mode and moved the toggle for it to the top left of the screen. You can easily switch between (high bandwidth) and (low bandwidth) mode. The link shows the name of th0 . . .
Well, we have almost made it there. Right now we are 8 entries away from having 10,000 journal entries written for the site.. This Saturday night we will be hosting a party to celebrate 10,000 jou0 . . .
userpic maker http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/edit_image/userpic_maker.php can be used to crop a user pic based on an image from the internet. Try finding one on google images. Simply input the im0 . . .
I have added categories to the site. Seeing as this is a community the categories are cross-user. That means, when you add a category, everyone else can use that category. It is ok if teh actegorie0 . . .
What Is The Infringement Festival? Various members of Buffalo, New York's arts community have come together to organize the first annual Buffalo infringement Festival http://http://infringebuffalo0 . . .
I have been debating and debating what to do with the site. I think I have decided not to go with the home connection for my $4000 superserver because I don't want the responsibility of keeping it up0 . . .
I just added a new option for Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now. I renders like this: Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now. I also made i0 . . .
omg, the artvoice survey http://www.artvoice.com/avweb.3/index.php?option=com_avbob&surveyid=1&Itemid=107 is back up but all the answers are gone. I think everyone has to revote. Now it checks yo0 . . .
I took a break from writing to get some data. Here a made a little fun toy to play with http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/archives/publish_data.php?u=southernyankee It turns each entry written b0 . . .
I fixed both login box bugs during sign up and sign in. Now whenever you sign in from the front page, or confirm your email addr when signing up it takes you directly to your journal publish box. Ho0 . . .
They at least work in Firefox and IE 6. The rest of you with win 98 aol browser, I have no idea. Here they are: You can hit ctrl +m from any journal to be taken to your publish box. Once at 0 . . .
You can now upload, store and manage multiple userpics. To select the one you want as your default userpic, just click on it. When it turns red around the border you are set to go. You can use thi0 . . .
I am going to be leaving for camping in tomorrow and just wanted to go over the updatees real quick before I go to bed. 1. The news journal is no longer a group journal. No one else was using i0 . . .
I am sure there is probably a bug in this somewhere, but as a spur of the moment thing I created a caching system from scratch that caches the journals until they are updated or commented on. This sh0 . . .
When you write a journal, the local temperature is appended to the entry. You can see the temperature in the date string at the top of any new entry that you write. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I updated the chat commands so they should be faster, if you type help into the Chat box it lists the commands. I will add more soon. Right now the weathermon also reports weather everyday at noon t0 . . .
Today is the Artvoice Street festival. LAts year we handed out lots of flyers. This year I forgot about it till today. Below is the linup and info from the artvoice web site. You can also download0 . . .
whisper tag There is a new journal tag called whisper, it is written like this Here is something to whisper, you could include images or anything . He is a live example that only members can see 0 . . .
The site student loan total has hit $766,768 and could soon reach $1 million. If you are a site memeber and haven't filled this out, be sure to include your student loans in the total by clicking on 0 . . .
I "dried out" one year of estrip chat and turned it into an html file of the whole year. I might break it into installments later but for now it is on one page http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/e0 . . .
Well, now that we found a topic journalist, the next most important thing is a server admin and/or a reliable local hosting facility. Here http://elmwoodstrip.org/elmwood/server.html is the link to t0 . . .
Everyone should try out fast mode, if you are using firefox or IE 6.0 - you can enable it in your prefs. It allows the journals to load really fast from the top twelve list using xmlHTTP so that it d0 . . .
We met the new topics author at spot today. I think that topic articles will make an interesting and exciting contribution to the site. Basically, the idea being that we start an online magazine o0 . . .
I upgraded the comments system to include email alerts. This makes it easy to find out when someone posts comments on old journal entries. By default, when someone leaves you a comment, the commen0 . . .
I redid the send blog system that you can use to send the blogs to other people. If you would like to send an entry to another person via email, simply click on the envelope at the bottom of any entr0 . . .
At the request of e:shawnr the comment system has been activated. At the request of e:matthew an option has been created to turn it of for your own journal. Now everyone can be happy! Comments ar0 . . .
Profiles and UserSounds- The profiles have been restyled a bit. I will work on it more later. Usersounds have been moved to the user profiles. To get to your profile, click on the link in the us0 . . .
This watermelon theme is a new theme based on the new quicker display system. It was inspired by e:maidencateyes watermelon comment and this picture of a watermelon rose. I am determined to make one0 . . .
So far 10 of you have responded with how much you owe in student loans and we are already up to $311,931. I guess that almost confirms that once everyone enters there values, we will be up to if not 0 . . .
There were a bunch of updates today, most of them won't be obvious on the surface but I will recap the ones that are. 1. New temporary look while I transition from one display code set to another.0 . . .
You now can send post-it messages to mulitple members, making it easier to invite people to parties, announce things, etc. To use this feature, you must be logged in. Click on your post-it control p0 . . .
Check it out, I made a a little site wide student loan calculator to see how much we owe in student loans as a group. Each memeber is allowed to input into the chart once. Youc an always delete your0 . . .
I just saw the ntry that e:metalpeter wrote metalpeter,358 about Music is Art Festival 2005 and it reminded me that I wanted to post a link to the event info on the calendar. Here is a link to the0 . . .
I posted this to craig's list but then realized that I forgot to post it here where it really matters. We are currently looking for journal authors for the following topics. I thought by having so0 . . .
Thanks e:jessbob donation and to everyone else who has donated in the past, it is because of you peeps that we have been able to continue to offer this free service with any advertising for the past s0 . . .
The search box has been moved up above the user pic. The default now is to search the users journal you are looking at. Once the search box comes up, you can select the all check box to search from 0 . . .
I saw this at buffalobarfly.com ATTENTION STUDENTS We need more INTERNS in GRAPHIC DESIGN, MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PROMOTIONS,WEB DESIGN, BUSINESS & COMMUNICATIONS. If you need a summer int0 . . .
The allentown art festival allentown art is comming up this weekend. If you haven't been there before or if you love chochski, then you will love it. Sometimes, it is pretty fun too. Anyone can fee0 . . .
There were so many people at the pride festival at Bidwell park. There were quite a few more people than last year, with a much bigger area. The festival was almost twice as big as last year. You0 . . .
Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello announced today that plans are underway to return vehicular traffic to Main Street by 2007.Quoted from: 2 On Your Side - News http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?0 . . .
One of the protesters just announced on his megaphone that he will kill us all and bury us in dirt graves and then we can deal with jesus. His sign says, " Jesus Said, repent or else Revelation 2:16" 0 . . .
Don't forget about the pride parade parade tomorrow. It stars at one and goes from Kleinhans to bidwell park via elmwood. There is a giant party with speakers and performers at Bidwell following the0 . . .
So e:shawnr asked me last night if the server could deal with lots of visitors from far away if he put a link to his journal on other sites. I thought it would be ok. Well on boing boing, http://www0 . . .
The browser war begins. The site has begun tabulating the number of visits per browser in a most obvious way. You can see teh percentages in the upper right hand corner of the site. The posiiton mi0 . . .
e:mike and e:matthew and I went sidewalk chalking. On the way we saw e:jeremy and e:drchlorine Hopefull we chalked enough places for people to see them. I was hard to do without e:jill , afterall0 . . .
I programmed almost non stop from noon until midnight in order to complete some major upgrades to the site code. I apologize to any of you that had any errors or slowness during the update. I hope th0 . . .
Subject: *WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed We regret to inform you that your account has been suspended due to the violation of our site policy, more info is attached. If you get this it i0 . . .
I have been updating tons of backend stuff that you never see, but I just added another update that is immediately useful to everyone. The epeeps and online guests list at the bottom of the top ten l0 . . .
You can get to the user statistics page by clicking on the # when you are logged in. This presents you with a table of all users, their aim online status, links to their journals, their site online s0 . . .
You should find that e:strip is much faster today than it was during the beginning of the week. I added a lot of speed fixes by revamping any code left from 2003, and anything that was incompatible o0 . . .
You finally can log in on a cell phone and post without having to use email. You can also read entries, read an e-poem based on the journals called, "A Million Excuses" and see who else is 0 . . .
Thanks to e:scud and e:Drchlorine for donating to the estrip fund. I am going to make a page with bricks that you can have your name on. On another note I moved the address for wap to shorter addr0 . . .
Well now that I no longer have a job, paying $39.00/month on the server space for this not-for-profit project seems impossible. Maybe someone wants to donate some money? There is a nice green donate0 . . .
Who would have thought so many people are still using windows with explorer. I guess it will never die. Operating Systems Windows 91.5 % Macintosh 6.3 % Linux 1.6 % Browsers MS Internet 0 . . .
I haver repogrammed the poetry engine to make it much more comprehensive. Check it out by clicking on the epoetry link in the search box. On Collecting she found one for an inexpensive stew. 0 . . .
Workshop will be open Sunday May 8, 2005 from Noon until 3:00PM. Blue Bicycles is very close to launching for the summer. However, we have one small gap left to fill. Please encourage friends & famil0 . . .
Check this out for some reason we are featured on offshoring digest http://www.offshoring-digest.com/item/137339.html . Just search for elmwoodstrip.org on that page. That is too weird. I bet it st0 . . .
4 : 20 The digital poetics class at UB (of which our own e:paul, e:liz, and e:shawnr are a part of) is hosting a reading at the CFA at UB north campus at 7:00 PM. A small break here allows aten0 . . .
booky update I also redid booky so you might want to grab a new copy. The newest version adds the quoted textpage title and link to the quote bubble. >>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 04/09/00 . . .
First of all I have ended the e:strip problem when you type e:strip and it thinks that it is a user link. Thank god that is over, it was a one liner but I just kept forgetting. I also have added a0 . . .
You can now record your lives again. Sorry about any inconvenience. Somethings may not be functional yet. >>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 04/06/05 17:09 >>Updated By: paul 04/06/05 17:090 . . .
I am goign to be moving the site today to a new server. In order for this to work, I am goign to have to put it in read only mode during the move so that we don't have any double updates. I appologi0 . . .
Some of you may have experienced the following when using Dreamweaver. "Dreamweaver cannot determine the remote servers date and time. The sychronize feature is not available" Here 0 . . .
I redid the inlink system to eventually leave for intersite links and tracking. Right now they just have an upgraded icon and a new format. The new format is at the bottom of any journal. Also when0 . . .
If you are having trouble getting quicktime to play you media files such as midi or mp3, or 3gp cell phone videos you need to follow these instructions. Quicktime 6.5.2 Firefox Setup Download 0 . . .
I apologize for anyone that freaked out during the major site mess up that happened today. Our lame hosting company moved the server to some other location without proper warning and assumed that it 0 . . .
Booky now jumps in front when you use click on it after highlighting text. It used to get stuck behind other windows. Once the text is loaded it will pop to the front. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
http://news.techwhack.com/1044/220305-yahoo-buys-flickr-to-merge-it-with-360-and-photos-services/ Yahoo! just recently declared their much-awaited entry into the blogging world with the announcement o0 . . .
The Central Terminal Restoration Corporation is seeking submissions of original painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media with themes addressing Buffalo Central Terminal, trains, or the City o0 . . .
I just posted a bunch of photos on my site, check it out if you are so inclined. It's buffalog.com >>Posted By: jafafahots0 . . .
In a valiant attempt to keep up with the ever-changing updates/improvements on the site - which seem to spread faster than an outbreak of e: gossip on e:Pageseven - the help files have also been updat0 . . .
The start up sound today is "Molly Malone." There are lots of other irish midi files available here http://www.fionasplace.net/Irishmusic.html >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I was surfing around for information about blogs and came to this page http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/publications/eh/2005/050310.html from the UB library about blogging and blogging statistics. 0 . . .
I added another theme today. I haven't finsihed it yet, but I thought I would change it so that you all can at least escape the grey for a while. 0305/winter0328.jpg 0305/spring4618.jpg >>Po0 . . .
You can now cut and paste form word without all that character mess. At least for curly quotes and apostrophes, elipses, and long dashes. If you all discover more of them feel free to send me a note0 . . .
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/NY/ny-30_h_quinn1.html 0305/st_pats5635.jpg It's really on eof the most fun events in the Buffalo Calendar year. I believe it starts at 2PM. >>Posted By0 . . .
I had asked people to post their view of elmwoodstrip last week and got the following responses. If you posted one, make sure I am not missing yours. Does anyone else have a view they would like to 0 . . .
I switched the way the spellcheck works. It should act the same but the code running it is different. Check it out and tell me if there are any problems. Contractions now work. >>Posted By: paul >0 . . .
I redid the chat, so please test it out. It now loads just the latest data into the chat box instead of updating the whole thing, which saves on bandwidth and make it work much smoother. Becuase of 0 . . .
Firefox is getting much closer to being the number one browser for estrip. It definatly should be. If you don;t have firefox already, you should get it now, it's free http://www.mozilla.org/products0 . . .
Firefox has released version 1.0.1 with security and bug fixes. You can download it free here http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I got this off google news, but figur3ed it would be good to spread the message to everyone on the site. A computer virus that’s finding its way to inboxes is fronting itself as a message f0 . . .
Don't forget to stop by Allen Street Hardware tonight at 10pm. Be there! >>Posted By: rachel0 . . .
Messages are now limited to 160 char but it counts for you. You could always send more than one but this prevents anyone from sending a 5000 message to your journal and messing it up, espeically if y0 . . .
So here's the deal, peeps kept asking me who wrote the letters, I was sick of answering so now if you are logged in when you write it the message gets sent from you. If you are not logged it it comes0 . . .
I am pleased to announce: As the first upgrade to the messages system you can now have your site based post it messages auto forwarded as text messages to your cell phone. To add your cell phone num0 . . .
I got an email from alt press http://www.altpressonline.com today asking for a link to their site. I really like their publication so I added it to the homepage and the news journal link list. They0 . . .
I have moved all the contact links AIM, YIM, email, and the new messages under the userpic. This will make it way easier to contact people on the site. 0205/post_it5851.jpg The old enmail link 0 . . .
I fixed the prev and next buttons so that they actually work again. Now you can surf and journal from the beginning to the end. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I redid the chat so it auto refreshes every 20 seconds. this way when you are writing for a long time, etc you can still see hwat other people are saying to you. Apparently, it works because I notic0 . . .
When is there a better time to join a site and start a journal than when there are more than 540 non- bot visitors with unique IP address out of ~3000 total visits in the last 24 hours. 20 different 0 . . .
The site should be much faster now. I fixed some old problem code from 2003 that was still floating around undetected by scrutiny. Anyways, you should notice a big speed increase in accessing the 0 . . .
Does anyone know anyone else who they can enourage to start a journal. I would like to get more people. Anyone have any ideas about how to go about that. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I have corrected the login issues by switching the login back to cookies. You can rest assurred you will not be logged out now, unless you log yourself out. The biggest probem with this is the secur0 . . .
Not only can you now choose between month or journal mode, you can also choose the media format. The month also sticks now as requested. Please go through and get rid of any old crap you don't use o0 . . .
Stylebox The stylebox has come a long way since its beginning. It now works as intended on firefox and explorer. Simply select the text you want the tag applied to and click the style and the tag0 . . .
I finally added the help files and search. You can access it by clicking on the help link at the top of the page. I will be adding to as the week goes one but their are already 22 topics. You can a0 . . .
Resizing photos for you journal is easy. But first you need an image editor. Seeing as not everyone has photoshop I will give the instructions using GIMP - a free opensource image editor found here 0 . . .
While packing to move I also found some of the old estrip banners. 1204/base1921.jpg 1204/terry1921.jpg and the original default face. 1204/base2005.jpg >>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: 0 . . .
I am just documenting the new winter colors for winter 2004 before I forget and only have half screen shots like last years blue winter theme. I also added code support for themes, so hopefully it wi0 . . .
The most important change is the new nav box. To use it click on the little green box between the "ttt" large print mode icon and the scroll bar toggle at the top of the page. The naviga0 . . .
Well, some people think that the humans on the last poster are weird looking like disappointed, sad, hopeless, and discourage. Well, just blame me. I was listening to melancholic music while I was wor0 . . .
Well, just finished the poster for Elmwoodstrip.com. Just want to know what you think.. this is smaller version. Let me know.. I'm going to bed right now. Soyeon. PS: I've just checked it wit0 . . .
I update dteh color picker and made the little tabs bigger, added a backgorund outline, etc. Hopefully it works better now. If anyone is having bugs still please contact me. I fthe color picker doe0 . . .
I updated the latest entries class so that it strips out html characters and quotes in the titles. I also added a mode to the (list all journals) box that lets you not only alphabetize but return to0 . . .
Still not enough of you are taking advantage of the API. The API is a simple site extension for those of you who are web designers. It allows you to make your own site on any php enables server and 0 . . .
I have revolutionized site navigation with the control bar at the top right of the journal. There is now a camera icon between the nav arrows <--10 cam --10>. Even e:soyeon should be happy now0 . . .
Inspired by e:soyeon 's incessant hints about the problem with the previous ten being at the bottom of the journal, I ended up moving it to the top and adding a next ten button too. Now you can move0 . . .
e:j3sse made a request for a new preference to have the publish box closed by deafult. So if anyone else wants to use it, it can now be found in your preferences control panel ( the # in your control0 . . .
This is a forward from e:churchofjulie . I have a soft spot for the good people at Talking Leaves. http://tleavesbooks.com/ They're having two Holiday Open Houses. It's 10% off on Books, Calendars,0 . . .
So the server was having problems and they never got my trouble ticket. It seems the trouble ticket system was down. Anyways, its all good now - so you can feel safe again and update quickly. This0 . . .
Sorry about the tech problems on the site the last two days. It should be over soon. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
Now the epad just shows up when you click on an inlink instead of notifying you that the text has been copied to the epad. The save/send feature works as well. I hope this raises awareness of the e0 . . .
Using the estrip API is easy! Simply follow the instructions here http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/info/api.php to get you started. You can also view a live copy of the example page here http://w0 . . .
Wow the new MSn search really like to cache our site, they visit it so much and so far have saved 30 pages of results from it http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=site%3awww.elmwoodstrip.org+elmw0 . . .
e:matthew warned me about this several times and I forgot to check into it. It is true that the media stats were not updating for a while, actually about a month. I am surprised no one else noticed 0 . . .
I am putting htis hear for historical record. today it snowed. I released the snow on the site too. The snow is the infant state of a new interactive menu system to be released at some point in the0 . . .
1. AFTER JANUARY 1, 2005: YOUR LIBRARY WILL CLOSE! ---- 1. AFTER JANUARY 1, 2005: YOUR LIBRARY WILL CLOSE! Are you aware that all 52 libraries across Erie County will close their doors after Jan0 . . .
Your journal now supports 8 and 24-bit PNGs even with alpha channels and even in Internet Explorer for Windows. This is a great way to have really nice transparency in your images. That brings sup0 . . .
For all you cell phone freaks and low bandwidth junkies, I added midi upload capability to the journals so you could uploads you great midi files. Check it out. 1104/InBloom5437.mid Here http:/0 . . .
These numbers are good but what is it was 50 and 80 instead. Do you all think we should really resort to paper flyers. It seems so anti-tech but it might be what it takes? Any other ideas to draw 0 . . .
The spell check has had its final update for today - okay maybe not because I am obsessed with programming it. I redid the way that the data moves between the boxes so that it should be faster and wo0 . . .
Here is an example of the new possibilities with the background and text color mixer. To use it simply click on the color selector in your journal publish box. If you have it in background mode, it 0 . . .
Here is the group carved pumkin, the seeds were tasty, mmm. 1004/30233532.jpg 0 . . .
#ACACAC Quotes "You can now set a block of text to be styled as quoted text using the quote style in the stylebox. It styles the text and puts quotes around it for you. This is a great way 0 . . .
Quotes You can now set a block of text to be styled as quoted text using the quote style in the stylebox. It styles the text and puts quotes around it for you. This is a great way to set certain 0 . . .
Lydias Pearl, at 484 Pearl St. Will have their last party tonite. Come drink the place dry, and participate in the good bye auction as Lydia Auctions off everything in her bar. Drink specials all ni0 . . .
Halloween Party! 1004/halloweenparty2236.jpg "say goodbye to e:southernyankee, and Happy B-day Sarah, Tina, and Chamille! " Saturday, October 30th 2004 567 Lafayette Ave 9ish or 100 . . .
YIM! users you are no longer left out in the cold - even in Buffalo. To have your YIM! status displayed under your userpic, simply click on the YIM! icon in your control panel and add your YIM! name.0 . . .
Everyone is invited to a business mixer tonight at Coles, 1104 Elmwood. Feel free to bring your business cards and a positive attitude. Begins at 5:30 pm. Admission is free. >>Posted By: wnymenu0 . . .
I created a new fall look for the sitel. We can all rest assured that it will not last long as I already have the snow pictures waiting to put up. Sadly enough, soon we will be back to winter blue!0 . . .
For now the autocorrect features have turned off for all browsers accept firefox on all three platforms. I don't have the time to test it in the three million other browsers/users out there and firef0 . . .
I redid the icons at the bottom of the journals because I was dissatisfied with the old ones. If you roll over the icons, a litle tooltip will pop up and tell you what it is. The most significant ch0 . . .
Updates - If you roll over the top twelve you should see the titles of the journals listed as little tool tips pop ups. I also added a preference to turn the auto correct off if it is giving you a pr0 . . .
I just drove by Coffee & and it was like completely burned down. The builiding was still there but looked pretty badly burnt. There were news crews there covering it but it looks like the fire hap0 . . .
I added a new autocorrection feature to the journal. I fixes certain common spelling errors as you type. I will add customization features in the near future. If you notice that the journl is corr0 . . .
I didn't even realize it but we crossed the 1 million word mark today. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
We are getting so close to having a million words. Currently Total Words: 996833 I can't even believe it. I remember when it crossed a million characters news,132 back in February of 2004. T0 . . .
In celebration of our move to the oh so awesome server we are currently on, I have updated the spell check to be the most kick-ass spell check that javascript and php could bring you. To use it simpl0 . . .
elmwoodstrip.org The site is currently back up. You can feel free to use it as usual. All user files have been transfered. The site is currently at elmwoodstrip.org. You should also be able to 0 . . .
The site is in read only mode for a while today. I need to freeze new updates in order to move the site to it's new location. You can still continue to read the site and by tomorrow it should be bac0 . . .
I redid the search engine. Searching should now be much more convenient. The search results open in a new window, similar to the (list all journals) window. Each search result show the 150 charact0 . . .
From around 2am till 8am on Monday (sunday night to monday morning) , the server will be down for routine maintence. We will most likely be switching servers directly after that but I am still waiti0 . . .
Events at SOUNDLAB ... Thursday, October 14, 10 pm, $5 Zombie: Absent, Empty & Involuntary Bodies a Multimedia Lecture/Demonstration by celebrated Australian performance artist ***STELARC*0 . . .
In the chat today a guest posted: guest 13:06 : to terry, and all the other lame asses who oppose progress. Panos has been contributing to the buffalo economy for years. the dilapidated buiding ne0 . . .
Right now sidekick 2s are available on amazon.com for $24.99 with a new service plan. I am sending this now from the sidekick 2, where with the developer license you can even email sound files recorde0 . . .
The site was down for most of the night. I really need a fast reliable, reasonable cost host. The host we currently have changed something in the way that $_SERVER was reported. I changed all refer0 . . .
I signed up for a new host at a site with PHP 5 so that I could recode the site to be more efficient by taking advantage of the new upgrades in PHP. Unfortunately, it is a bit more expensive so if an0 . . .
I just wante dto go over some recent updates for people who didn't knwo about them. Restaurant Review I added the restaurant links to the top, which links to the epeeps peer based restuarant revi0 . . .
I've worked on the epeeps, peer based, restaurant reviewa bit more more and took some of the suggestions into account. For example, I added the number of reviews for each restauarnt into the list so0 . . .
This is from the allpowertothepeople local calendar http://www.allpowertothepeople.com/ Public Hearing on CertainTeed PVC Plant on Buffalo Waterfront where: Erie County IDA when: September 29, 20 . . .
I was taking a look at the stats for the journal with over 100 entries to see if there were any trends. i am 100% not a statistician, so I thought maybe someone else could look at it. I noticed so0 . . .
Okay, e:ajay has created the greatest update for the site. For those of you that do not know, he has created an AIM AOL bot that can answer questions about the site. It is currently in beta stages b0 . . .
Yesterday was an almost record day with about ~300MB of bandwidth used. Think of that like trading ~210 floppy disks full of information.0 . . .
Welcome new epeeps. If you have any questions feel free to email or IM paul. You can also ask questions in the chat box and surely someone will respond during the day. Inlink Update With epad Sup0 . . .
The server elmwoodstrip.com is based on had some unscheduled site maintenence that needed to be done. So we apologize if the site was not responding from 10pm to 12 am est. Thanks for your patience! 0 . . .
We added a new Terms of Service agreement for the site. You can find the TOS known as e:rules at http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/rules . The next time you go to write a journal entry you will be prompted0 . . .
Logged in users can now add RSS feeds to the RSS feed list box under the events calendar. e:sqb - I know you'll like this one. In order to add feeds, simply click on the green pen icon in the rss fe0 . . .
Eventually I will make more - for now just type commands into the chat window for a list of currently avaiable chat commands. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
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In case you hadn't read it anywhere else, you can now access some site feature from a WAP enable cell phone. This includes hundreds of models of cell-phones with text based browsers. Currently you c0 . . .
As of this afternoon I will be discontinuing all support of IE on Mac. I am sorry if anyone is effected by this, but I do not have time to keep up with that most archane broswer. IE is not longe0 . . .
Robert Kirkham, a Buffalo News Photographer came to take my picture today for the link section article about web pages. I think it will run on the 27th of Spetember, but no guarantees. Robert was 0 . . .
Don't forget that tonight is epeeps night at off the wall, by elmwood and utica. Check the calendar for a link to e:rachels 's journal about it. Will we finally see e:maidencateyes and the many others0 . . .
Wow, when I started this journal there were 5 peeps and 17 guests online. Now there are 6 peeps and 8 guests. The numbers are so high. It seems to be really growing. I guess I can't work on the li0 . . .
I added about 10 new rss news feed to the rss box. If you need something to write about, you have no excuses now, haha. I will be making the box public to non-logged in users shortly and adding feat0 . . .
I added site statistics to the e:info journal's link list. Here are the current statistics, you can view up-to-the date statistics on the e:info journal. ~SITE STATS~ Users Signed-up: 131 Users 0 . . .
Here is the situation the rss which now includes images and line returns using HTML markup. This irritates the hell out me, because I feel that it is leaving the original point of rss, simple syndic0 . . .
I have been working on more of the behind the scenes stuff on the site. Thanks to some bug reports from e:sqb , I decided to work on the rss feeds. The feeds are now rss 2.0 compliant, have the 0 . . .
WIN $100 TARGET SHOPPING SPREE! Participate in this Reality TV study. Bring friends! Win a raffle! Or at least get 5 bucks... WOMEN 25-35 wanted for reality TV study. Receive $5 plus entry in0 . . .
Hopefully, everything is normal now and we can resume documenting our lives >>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/04/04 16:05 >>Updated By: paul 09/04/04 16:070 . . .
Word around etown is that you are some sort of local scam artist. Although I haven't dealt with you personally (nor would I at this point) I have heard many people talking about bad experiences th0 . . .
Happy 21st birthday e:mike. We hope you enjoy it. >>Posted By: news0 . . .
People can sign up for the site once again after another period of me not noticing the signup was down. Because of this I am thinking about opening the chat box to the public, so that people could le0 . . .
0804/estrip.jpg e:paul , e:southernyankee , and e:terry are showing off their homemade elmwoodstrip t-shirts at the elmwood art festival. >>Posted By: matthew >>Updated By: matthew0 . . .
It's sunny now and we are going back out to the festival. It's back in full force with drummers on the main stage. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
The festival is just about cancelled because of the rain. A bunch of people are still out there but the msuic has been canceled and a lot of the vendors are packing up and leaving. :( >>Posted By:0 . . .
Paul, might I recommend www.dict.org http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict as an alternative to Wiktionary? It is open-source, and uses non-copyrighted dictionaries. Yes, the latest words like "chillax&qu0 . . .
In an effort to keep with the comunity based media idea, I have switched the elmwoodstrip offical dictionary from the commercial dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com to the open source wiktionary.0 . . .
You can finally upload multiple media files!! Thanks to e:holly for the suggestion, I had been planning it for a while, I just hadn't had the time. Right now you can upload up to five files in one s0 . . .
Sorry about the downtime during the last hour. I made some major changes to the code of the site and people were not able to login or logout. Now it is fixed. If you find any other problems, pleas0 . . .
0804/elektromat08250252.jpg >>Posted By: matthew0 . . .
In case anyone is interested I fixed up the donation button, found at the bottom of the info and news journal link list, so that it looks more appealing to click on and donate ;) . Money will go tow0 . . .
Holly, in reference to this holly,89. I am planning on adding that soon, right now I am trying to organize stuff before adding new things. I am guess ometime next week. In the mean time, there 0 . . .
Guest DJs, live music, contests, prizes, food and fun — what more could you want at Pride at the Pier? How about internationally renowned drag performer Lady Bunny presenting her legendary act, and 0 . . .
I am putting the journals under the Creative Commons License. Here is an excerpt from the info journal explaining what this means. Q. Can I copy and use text or imagery from the journal ? Yes,0 . . .
Tonight, we will be having the largest estrip event to date in honor or e:terry and e:mike 's birthday. It will be held at 567 Lafayette Avenue and we expect a huge turnout. BYOB 0804/bdayFlyera0 . . .
I have moved the profile update option onto the control panel. Simply click on the green letter P to access your control panel for updating. Once you have a profile, a link to it will show up in yo0 . . .
Does anyone know what this is? There is a new store opening by the elwmood market on elmwood and bidwell. The signs says The loyal market - save, earn, learn - Internet Boutique. Is it like the eba0 . . .
Right now there were seven of us online at the same time again. 0804/users08180212.jpg Imagine if we met up in real life and drank absinthe, we would need a whole table! Hahaha! 0804/table0810 . . .
I received this information via email the other day and thought maybe some of you would be interested. There is much happening in regards to Friends of the Ancient Forest and Zoar Valley. The much 0 . . .
I am posting this to the news because last night at Faherty's, everyone was talking about Spencer Tunick and wanted more information. 0804/New_York08130900.jpg This http://www.albrightknox.org0 . . .
There were 7 epeeps online at once right now but as I went to capture this picture, one signed off an now we only have 6. Still six was notworthy so I screen captured it for historical reasons. 080 . . .
But what she needs more than a home is a roommate to share it with so she can have a nice apartment in e-ville instead of the ghetto. You can't believe some of the apartments we saw today. Any leads? 0 . . .
Dictionary Lookup I have added new options to make in journal inks to dictionary.com and wikipedia. Dictionary.comis self explanatory. You click on the tag in your style box and put the word you wa0 . . .
Flash Files now display at the original size when uploaded to your journal. Adding extra inlinks will not delete what you have already written in the inlink box, even if you change pages. You ca0 . . .
IF ALL OF BUFFALO READ THE SAME BOOK: ARUNDHATI ROY COMES TO BUFFALO SEPT. 8-9 TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!! We are expecting tickets to sell out quickly, so get them while they're still around. CA0 . . .
If the journal has an orange title, it means it was written today. Whenever you sleect a journal from the list you should always make sure that you check all of the orange titles. for example, I wro0 . . .
I have created a new elmwoodstrip.com search plugin for mozilla firefiox and other mozilla compatible broswers such as Netscape, and maybe safari? It makes it really easy to search the site for info0 . . .
Today I am introducing more e-features in celebration privacy invasion. Just kidding, but it doesn throw a new twist on data mining. If you would like to link to a buffalo or surrounding suburb st0 . . .
Thank you Robert Franke of Forever Elmwood for adding a link to our site on the front page of the Forever Elmwood site http://www.foreverelmwood.org . I hope this brings in some new people who are in0 . . .
As requested by e:keith , I have reset the number of view on each journal and made it so that if you are logged on and look at your own journal, it doesn't get counted. This kind of sucks in a multiu0 . . .
I got rid of the drop down list in order to speed up load time, reduce code bloat that will only get worse as we get more users and to move the user pic, link, and stats up. In order to make up for0 . . .
You can can add both site and google searches to your entries by using the magnifying glass or google logo in your stylebox. Simple type the word or words between the tags. To add multiple words sim0 . . .
Searches and emoticons. I added support for searches in your entries, as well as, a couple emoticons. I didn't have time to make new emoticons :( so I borrowed some form somebody else. I will make 0 . . .
Here is the new stylebox. Does anyone remember the old one from Winter 2003 with the 3 styles news,107! 0804/styleBoxNew08030358.gif I haven't decided on the look exactly yet, but this will do f0 . . .
On August 20th, 2004 we will be having the largest estrip event to date in honor or e:terry and e:mike 's birthday. It will be held at 567 Lafayette Avenue and we expect a huge turnout. BYOB It a0 . . .
I have notices that a lot of you tend to write lists and we were missing some sort of easy list feature, so I wrote a little function for it today. 0804/lists08020546.gif brush my teeth go to0 . . .
We have written 4000 journal entries. This will be number 4001. The amazing part is that 959 of them have been written since 6/20/04. I guess we could have 10,000 by the end year if we get a coup0 . . .
So, another night of no sleep has gone by and I guess the vietnamese coffee was really strong because I spent the whole night working with array and perl compatible regular expressions. What did i ge0 . . .
Finally, I worked out all the kinks with the inlink. You can use all of the features of the regular journal update box, including your image library, private/draft checkbox, upload media form, and sp0 . . .
There are two major updates for today. Journal Statistics You can now see your individual journal statistics under your fav five list. The info journal has site wide statstics. If you do not wan0 . . .
In the meantime, I would like people to get a taste of what is comming. This swf file is fully functional, just login and publish. It currently does no error checking, so if you name and password ar0 . . .
The videos from the 7/27 Outer Circle Orchestra Concert at Bidwell are now avaiable under the video link at the top of the page. We appologize that only a few of them came out due to techincal dificu0 . . .
If you want to check everyone's AIM status you can now simply click on the question mark in your control panel and see them all. It makes it much easier than having to go from journal to journal to f0 . . .
I just released the beta version of e-profiles. To get to your profile just click on your userPic. If you are logged in you will see a form to fill out if you click on your userPic. The date of the 0 . . .
If you get the following email, it is a scam and not from paul. Please do not download any attatchments from it. We do not ever refer to ourselves as the elmwoodstrip.com support team because there 0 . . .
Our windows, mac and linux balance has drastically changed. We almost have no mac users left. here are the current statistics. OPERATING SYSTEM Windows 86.6 % Macintosh 8.2 % - not worth develo0 . . .
e:mike just alerted me that the sign up was not working. I appologize to anyone this inconvenienced. I was wondering how we had so many signups and then it simply stopped around the 15th of July.0 . . .
Thank you to e:rachel for reporting an bug that cause the RSS feed not to work anymore. It has since been corrected and should work fine. You may need to re-subscribe using your rss feed reader. 0 . . .
If you experience downtime, the server (which I have no control over) is messed up again. Sorry about that, just add it to the reasons why we should have a fundraiser and move the site somewhere else0 . . .
I re-wrote the search engine for the site. You will now get much more accurate results and all words in the search will be highlighted in the entry. To do this, simply search for something and cop0 . . .
The site has changed so much since this time last year and even more since its inception in March of 2003. I decided I should start taking screen captures because a lot of the progress was lost. I h0 . . .
If you have sucessfully listened to the radio, can you please post about it so I know it worked for everyone? Also, has anyone tried or at least seen the (audio) chat or A/v profiler? The a/v prof0 . . .
I have updated a huge section of the code tonight. So if you ntoice any problems please email me e:paul so that I can resolve them. The site should be significantly faster in terms of the code, but 0 . . .
in this area, there are so many inventive, enjoyable and free/inexpensive things to do as a family- especially in the nicer weather. generally, smaller events slip under the radar. if they are adver0 . . .
I send out another email using the update/info list. If you wish to unsubscribe from it, simply reply with the subject unsubscribe. Oops, i just realized I messed that up so you will have to wait 0 . . .
I added a link to an rss feed reader for java based mobile phones. Check it out info,10 Please contact e:paul if you have a phone capabale of this type of application. >>Posted By: info0 . . .
You can now receive all journals via email. Emailed entries include attached images and drawings. Currently .mp3 and .wav files are removed. 0704/emailBeta07130910.gif If you would like to par0 . . .
It would be nice if the calendar entries would pop-up in a tooltip (using mouseover)... also, any calendar entries added since the last visit could be colored a different color... A calendar isn't 0 . . .
Check it out. No one ever updates their user sounds. They are a fun way to personalize your journal or leave messages. 0704/250k07120904.gif In order to get people more interested, I am raisi0 . . .
I updated the image library today to include drawings that you made using the Sketch function. They will now show up in your image library so that you may delete old ones or add them to current or up0 . . .
We are now officially at 4,199,379 characters typed into the database. That is a hell of a lot of typing going on. Thanks everybody for who helped bring that number up since 1,000,000 news,132 >>Po0 . . .
All the estrippers and everyone else, head on over to the Pink. >>Posted By: mike0 . . .
e:matthew , e:terry and I are in Cape Cod getting the oil changed for good measure. It gave me time to think about the site. Programming the calendar at Keith's request was apparently a waste of my ti0 . . .
The profiler http://buffalo.kicks-ass.org:8080/profiler/estripProfiler.html allows you leave leave video, audio, and text messages on the site itself using a camera, micorphone, and keyboard. You can0 . . .
Well, not only can you add calendar events, you can also now view drawings in the user's image gallery. Previously, you could only view uploaded images. Check out e:jill 's journal. I made her's th0 . . .
Here are all the street interview videos from the Buffalo Pride 2004 Festival. To see them online go to http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/video. You will need the free quicktime player http://www.apple.co0 . . .
0604/elmwoodArtFestival.gif I would like to plan some major initiative for the site at the elmwood art festival http://www.elmwoodartfest.org/merchant/merchant.html I know it is way early but I 0 . . .
0604/event_explain.jpg I have worked hard today to bring you estrip events, a calendar based journal sorting system. This system was requested by e:keith. Because I did not want to break away 0 . . .
I checked into the site statistics today and over the weekend someone comming from a US government domain visted 62 pages and downloaded 4.30 MB of information for a total of 348 hits. 4.30 MB is ju0 . . .
I really appologize for the inadequecy of the hosting company that I chose. The entire customer sevice team has been moved to a foreign land and they forgot how to speak English, or? This type of se0 . . .
I appologize about downtime today. The site was not working for about five hours this afternoon. It was once again a problem with our lame ass server host. I will be moving the site at somepoint in0 . . .
Join a live, interactive online conference call with Michael Moore Discuss Fahrenheit 9/11 Plan local actions to defeat George Bush Turn Up the Heat on Richmond (27 registered participants) 0 . . .
Since June 21, 2004: 217 Journals have been published. 51 visits to the spell check. 139 visits to the gallery searh 291 rss feed requests >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
e:jill and e:paul are stuck in e:keiths epuffvest with erotaryphone that eunplugged. We have repeatedly called e911 to no avail, those damn Buffalo police. we even tried the old 875-1234 but they told0 . . .
Well, after all the AIM integration updates last night I decided to continue on with the madness. If you are logged in you can now also see someone's online site status on their journal. There are t0 . . .
In order to bring people together I had integrated AIM with the site. In order to use the features, you need to have AIM http://www.aim.com/ installed on your computer. For those of you that do no0 . . .
When logged in to your journal you will now see a new icon at the bottom of each journal entrie. The icon is an eye. Clicking on this open eye will shut it and hide the journal entry from anyone acc0 . . .
Here are some fun facts about the period from rom 6/20/04 at 23:47 to 6/22/04 at 22:40. In just short of 48 hours: There has been 62 journal postings. That's 31 postings per day. The gallery h0 . . .
Some guy started a company called JP Kreations that makes some really neat bikes. Unfortunately, I could only capture these low-res sidekick pics cause I did not bring the digital cam. I talked to0 . . .
A student once told me (when I was a TA), that misspellings and general English mayhem were an artform, a way for him to express himself.. ;-) >>Posted By: ajay0 . . .
I spent about a week developing the spell check system suggested by e:hodown hodown,23 during February Feedback news,172 and according to my counters, just about nobody ever uses it. It really does a0 . . .
Here we have a troup of child actors sword fighting. It goblins vs knights . . . but the knights havn't drank water in 3 days . . . 0604/20170011.jpg0 . . .
Here we are at the artvoice festival. It's pretty rockin' but slightly more commercial than I remembered it being. It might just be that I fogot about all the vendors. 0604/20170008.jpg Here is 0 . . .
0604/ourHouseParty.jpg There will be a little gathering at our house tonight, later we will be heading down to merlins. If you are interested and need directions, IM me using the link on my journa0 . . .
The random journal function has been re-written to not only select a random journal, but also a random entry from that journal. This should provide hours of historical reading fun for even the most w0 . . .
If you signed up since last saturday and did not receive a confirmation email, please try the following. Go to the join page and using the form at the very bottom, enter your userName and click send 0 . . .
I added a quick update to allow you to easily make links to other users on the site. you can still make the inlinks to a specific journal, but if you just want to link to another user's journal, or y0 . . .
For all you visually minded e:peeeps. You can now visually search through the history of a journal by selecting gallery, then selecting the user from the list. It will display all images in the user0 . . .
We appologize for the downtime we experienced yesterday. Our ISP was moving datacenters and we experienced downtime from about 8PM to sometime this morning. >>Posted By: matthew0 . . .
Check out the User Gallerys, the link is at the top. Click on the Gallery link and it will take you to the gallery page. There you select a user from the list and view all of their images. Eventual0 . . .
The Image Library has been updated to allow you to once again delete images from your library. Also, the upload media system has been changed to accept text based file names again. However, all spac0 . . .
I have added the Image Library (beta) to your control panel. You can now view previously uploaded images and add them to new journals by simply clicking on the thumbnail image in your image library. 0 . . .
We are off to write on the sidewalks again, followed by, going to the pink for Robin's birthday and stolen bike situation celebration. Come meet the other e:strippers >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
Check out the video interviews from Pride last Sunday at http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/video Maybe you'll see yourself or someone you know discussing their favorite Elmwood hangouts. Or find out whic0 . . .
Yesterday we crossed the 200MB per day line. That means that 200MB worth of information was leaving our site destined for the readers. We had 338 unique visitors who viewed a total of 7105 pages. 0 . . .
I programmed an RSS newsfeed for your journals. This allows you to read the journal entries. Here is the http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/rss to the RSS feed. This will take you to the raw XML info0 . . .
Well, Mike and Jill had a lot of success video taping for today's street interviews. 0604/07011329.jpg Unfortunately, we didn't have as much time or sucess compressng the videos for the site. 0 . . .
0604/06184704.jpg 0604/06184655.jpg 0604/06184712.jpg 0604/06184720.jpg 0604/06184729.jpg 0604/06184737.jpg 0604/06184746.jpg 0604/06184754.jpg 0604/06184801.jpg 0604/0618480 . . .
We are busy covering the event, here is a moblog shot of our favorite drag queens. We have a lot more to post when we get back. See you at Bidwell. 0604/06140057.jpg 0604/06140106.jpg Mik0 . . .
The Dyke March was a huge success. It ended in a party down at Bidwell park with music and a beer tent. Here is the first video on elmwoodstrip.com http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/video/dykeMarch/inde0 . . .
I just tested it on my brothers iBook and it seems to work now. Please check it out and email me if you have any problems. Make sure to include your platform (linux, mac, or PC) and your broswer in t0 . . .
I have added two new links to the control panel. Journal Status - You can also check out the most current journal statistics by clicking on the "Journal Status" link on your control panel0 . . .
I have added some spell check functions, which will check your journal entry for spelling errors. You can use the spell checking functions on the site, pre and post journal publication. In order t0 . . .
Area musicians, in conjunction with the Buffalo/Niagara Committee to Elect John Kerry President and the national grassroots organization concertsforkerry.com, will be holding a benefit concert on Sund0 . . .
Does anyone have the Nokia 3650? I would to test out uploading video from the phone to the site. >>Posted By: paul0 . . .
I just asked Jeeves, "What is the elmwood strip?" and our site came up number three. We are moving to the top on every search engine. I guess the time has finally come. I also wrote t0 . . .
You can now include up to 5 attached images with each email journal posting. For instructions see the info journal's "Fav Five" list. Or Click here info,7 >>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: p0 . . .
The site will be down tonight from 10-11PM EST. The ISP is doing some firewall upgrades. Sorry about the inconvenience. They really suck, there are is starting to be so much downtime, and they give0 . . .
Now anyone logged into the site can post to the news journal. Previously, only certain users had access to this journal. As requested by Rachel, I have moved the news journal (the former elmwood jo0 . . .
It really works, I typed in a journal entry a couple days ago that mentioned my name in it several tmes, and now it shows up number one under my name on google. Most of your jorunals already show up 0 . . .
Rachel, requested that we resurrect a news journal now that the faq is on the front page. I think it is a good idea, and seeing as the radio is useless, I have replaced the radio link on the banner w0 . . .
We wrote elmwoodstrip.com on the sidewalks again. Some guys asked us if they could borrow chalk along the way. I said sure, so if you see anything other than the words "elmwoodstrip.com" o0 . . .
I am moving the elmwood journal off the fornt page so that new people visiting the site see information about what the site is about. Soon we will be adding a calendar for current events, and the elm0 . . .
You may request the last ten journal entries via email. Simply send an email to last10 at elmwoodstrip.com Once again I wrote it that way to avoid spam harvesters. Please sue a normal @ symbol when 0 . . .
As of today, you can now publish (beta software) from anywhere that you have access to an email client, including cell phones! You simply need to send an email to blogme at elmwoodstrip.com I am int0 . . .
I condensed the site to save on screen space. hopefully this will help all of you with smaller monitors. I will be working an a total redesign soon. Also, I fixed the userSound. So now you can all0 . . .
Here is a link to my firts call for guerilla advertising. elmwood,278 I would like to continue to suggest that everybody advertise for the site in whatever way they can. I mean, the more people 0 . . .
0504/08012526.jpg help us say "see ya later TINA" SATURDAY MAY 8TH LILHO's HOUSE 27 mang ave. kenmore 10:30pm all are welcome b.y.o.b. e-mail lilho for more information (e-mail ava0 . . .
Zack told me that he started running elmwoodstrip.com advertsiements in the closed circuit broadcasts at Sun Capsule and other locations. I would like to declare this the beginning of the upcomming g0 . . .
The scrolling journal box's height is now based on your screen height. I was getting so annoyed with the tiny box on my big screen but I didn't want to make it big for everyone. Well now its customi0 . . .
I have been thinking about ways to advertise the site and yet maintain the target audience we want. My newest idea is sidewalk advertising all over elmwood with a chalk medium. Any of you artists wa0 . . .
There are many new updates in an effort to accomodate people with smaller screens and to integrate the control panel right into your journal. Email paul if you have any problems. WRITING ENTRIES -0 . . .
I fixed an bug where the click-publish box published your journal but kept the information in there when you got returned back to it. Sorry for an incovenience or confusion this may have caused.0 . . .
There is now a click-publish box on your journal when you log in. This was Terry's idea and I really like it. It allows you to quickly write a journal entry when logged in, without having to open a 0 . . .
The Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page defines Social Networking as: Social networking describes the process of connecting individuals via friends, relatives, and acquaintances&At0 . . .
The IE 5 for Macintosh journal display issue has been resolved. It occured yesterday after the switch to XHTML compliant HTML. If you are have any question or are experiencing any problem, please c0 . . .
Tonight Kimya Dawson will be playing at Mohawk Place with the butchies. Everyone should go see her. It will be great. If you don't know who she is check out her web-page!2 http://www.kimyadawson.com 0 . . .
0404/26233026.jpg 0404/26233121.jpg 0404/26233209.jpg From Friday, April 16 at Buffalo City Hall. 0 . . .
Why did nobody mention that none of the control panels were working on IE for Macintosh. I hope it is because none of you are using it anymore! That would be a fantastic step forwards.0 . . .
This is insane. I feel for you Swati and appologize on behalf of all Americans. 04/22/04 17:35 Mr. Bus Driver speaketh for the masses - I ride the shuttle to school and yesterday i wanted to 0 . . .
I have changed a couple of things on the site. login - The login box is now located in the place where you control panel will appear once you log in. chat - I moved the last 3 lines of chat 0 . . .
The site may expereince some downtime between 2AM and 5AM for updates to the database server. Please be advised your journal may not be available during that time. Sorry about the inconvenience.0 . . .
It was an amazing turn-out, especially for it being cold and at 8:30. We also got a new journal member named carrie. CHeck out her journal. She also posted this in the chat - so I guess the news is0 . . .
Here are some live quotes from the signs at the Bush protest. Huge turnout - many more pictures and text updates to come. Come on down. "I wasn't using my civil liberties anyways. Two ter0 . . .
What - Bush Protest When - Tuesday, April 20 8:30 AM Sharp! Where - Symphony Circle near Kleinhans Music Hall George Bush will be comming to Kelinhans msuic hall to give a speech showing his supp0 . . .
Now when you search for something using either the search box under the login box or the search page, it returns your search query highlighted in the journal so that you can easily find where you sear0 . . .
This info just in ... Hi Folks, I'm really excited about going to our capital and raising our voices for Zoar's protection. Just spent the day at Zoar enjoying the knife edges and amazing trees0 . . .
The Reverend Julie of the Church of Julie wants to marry YOU and whomever or whatever you want today and everyday through Saturday at The Elevator Stops Here. It'll be fun. You get a cupcake. And0 . . .
Come! Come! The Elevator Stops Here: Installation Art at the Top of City Hall http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/classes/dms/cgkoebel/cityhall/index.html Artists: Jay Ariaz, Swati Bandi, Robin Brasi0 . . .
Some of you may have known about the inLink function. It used to be something of secret but now its ready for everyone with a great new interface. If you want to link to another persons journal when0 . . .
Oops, I accidentally reset everyone's userpics to their old ones. I am really sorry. The site should be a lot faster. I have made several improvements to the code which I expect will increase t0 . . .
I am reorganiing the image/user data from the site, so if your pictures, userPic or links are missing for the next couple hours - don't freak out. They are currently processing and will be available 0 . . .
I fixed the pen/trash can icons so they always show up in the right place. I also fixed the userPic and image upload system so that they auto resize whatever image you upload.0 . . .
IF YOU LOVE TO LOVE, COME TO CITY HALL AND GET MARRIED! Now is your chance to publicly* affirm your love for: -small furry companions -abstract ideas -Labatt Blue -lover(s), friend(s), partne0 . . .
You may now upload any size gif or jpg image and have it resized perfectly to your journal. This is a major update as you will no longer need an external image editor to deal with larger than journ0 . . .
I changed the link graphic. I also added a search box right onto the login box. From there you can search through the journals. I am still working on the system but it works pretty well at this p0 . . .
I am totally thrown for a loop on how the google search engine chooses pages. On yahoo, ask jeeves, lycos, etc we are up in the top ten - often number 1, but on google, where we used to be number 1 fo0 . . .
We are having a party for the e:strippers and to celebrate spring. Come out to the ho house for a get togther this Saturday evening at 10:30 PM. 0404/02233556.jpg 0 . . .
Don't forget, this sunday morning is daylight savings. So turn you clock AHEAD one hour at 2:00 AM sunday morning. Welcome daylight!0 . . .
I have redone the code for uploading images, flash, and drawings. It now places your images into dated folders. The image library will not work properly now. I am currently divising a new system fo0 . . .
The sketch pad can be used to add diagrams and sketches to your journal. You can find a great example on Jill's journal. To add your own sketch simply click on the Sketch (beta) link in the control 0 . . .
The mySql serve ris going down or something. If you notice problmes please be aware that I have submitted a trouble ticket to the server admin. >>update - This seems to have been corrected. If you0 . . .
The site is now ready for more people. I will be continuously working on the site in the near future. But we are ready to announce it to more people. So tell all your local friends that have someth0 . . .
0304/protest32.jpg downtown protest march 20th 2004 lafayette square buffalo, ny matthew0 . . .
As requested you can now see who else is online. The number of e:peeps shown under the login box is the number of people signed into the site. If you would like to check and see who they are, simply0 . . .
I promise this updating will end soon and then you can get all comfortable again. I had the week off of school so I tried to take advatage of it. I hope you enjoy the upgrades once you figure them o0 . . .
The new trash can, inspired by the mac OS 8.6 trash can has been added to each entry. If you are logged in as the author of the entry you will see both a pen and a trash can next to your mail envelop0 . . .
Sorry about the inconvenience. The mailing features, as well as, your @elmwoodstrip.com email if you have one, now work.0 . . .
BEST FEATURE - If you are logged in, every journal entry has a little pen next to the mail envelope that lets you updat ethat specific entry. It doesn't matter what moth you are on. This is a really0 . . .
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There are still more updates and many more to come. Today's list. 1. Email addresses now turn into email links - simply type them in your journal just as you would any other link. e.g. junkmail@0 . . .
This is a crazy optical illusion I made. It really looks like the letter "e" is moving but it is not. sphere.swf 0 . . .
Please test out the site and send me -> paul any bugs you find. I hope you'll enjoy it. You now log on from any page and remain logged in till you log out. The site should also be significa0 . . .
I am trying to get the site done so that the new version is easily and infinitly updateable. Unfortunately, I don' live by myself on an island and my roomates won't let me just continously work work 0 . . .
Sorry about all the construction. It should be finished soon. In the meantime you can still update. It will just look funky on the update page. It's best if you use the quickupdate link at the top0 . . .
The site looks messed up because I am changing it and I'm too tired to finish. It still works. Email me if you have any trouble. I shoudl be able to fix it tomorrow. Then matthew can do his phot0 . . .
BENEFIT! Saturday, March 13th 7pm to 12pm @Unity Church 1243 Delaware Ave Buffalo, NY *see Matthew's journal for more info!*0 . . .
For a pre v2.0 surprise I decided to let everyone have flash capability on their journals. I know its hard to keep up with so many features but . . . Depending on how it goes I will decide about its 0 . . .
TOMORROW! Press conference in downtown Buffalo this Thursday at 11 am! Citizens’ Environmental Coalition and the Toxic Waste/Lupus, along with a coalition of groups across New York State, will rele0 . . .
The web cam sucessfully tested under a variety of conenctions from my sidekick to mac at UB to my laptop on wireless, to emily's mac on elmwood. Hopefully more of you got to see it. It should be a p0 . . .
Both the radio and the new webcam are up today. Please test them out and tell us how they worked for you. Both can be found as links under any userPic.0 . . .
We are sorry for any inconveniences the secuirty updates caused last night. The site was down only for a couple hours, but it was necessary. We will give more notice in the future.0 . . .
Sorry, Porn is not allowed in your elmwoodstrip userPics or journal entries. Our ISP charges an additional $40/month for having a porn site and that was never the intention of this project. If you 0 . . .
Come out to Soundlab tonight to see a bunch of video and installation work. Some of it was created by our very own elmwoodstrippers. Robin is showing a video and Soyeon is doing some sort of install0 . . .
This will mean nothing to those of you that don't code in HTML. People kept fucking shit up by trying to post HTML code to their journal. Before, I left the ability to add HTML code for those of y0 . . .
Thanks to falling4autumn noticing, I fixed the site so that you can now put apostrophes in you link list without getting that ugly slash.0 . . .
Tomorrow is Voting Day TIME FOR VOTING Primary polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Buffalo and surrounding Erie County. WHO VOTES Only New Yorkers enrolled in the Democratic Party by Feb. 60 . . .
Well it looks like the are going to return mandatory service for young people ages 18-26. Check out these bills. Go to the Senate homepage http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sec0 . . .
1. Does anyone have a connection with a billboard company? 2. Does anyone have connection with a sign printing company? 3. Does anyone have connection with a flyer printing company? 4. Do0 . . .
I would like to ask a favor of you'll. Could you please designate one journal to feedback on site design and features. As soon as I am free from the 10,000 other projects I am working on, I will beg0 . . .
speakEasy 10:00 AM WEDNESDAY WHLD 1270 AM Tune into tomorrow's show to hear Theresa, Paul and Terry talk about the issues surrounding the proposed constitutional ammendment to restict civil free0 . . .
We have so many weird statistics with t his site. Who would guess that most visitors come to the site between 3 and 4 PM. I will post more of them when I get them into some nice table for you'll to 0 . . .
Zack requested a way to be able to link to his journal from the outside world. elmwoodstrip.com/linkme.php?u=zack That should work for anyone, just change the username at the end to the one for 0 . . .
Multimedia Art Exhibition: Submission Deadline May 3, 2004 DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness Curatorial Committee Mark Tribe, Director of Art & Technology, Columbia U0 . . .
Well, if you read my journal you would know that I missed the big camping trip for a last minute job. Luckily, Southern Yankee userName=southernyankee&blogID=4,, was able to take a million pictures 0 . . .
WHyd oesn't anyone listen to the radio. ANy feedback is appreciated. By the way I am playing the 50s propaganda playlist again. It is really funny. You should tune in if you get the chance. Simpl0 . . .
A couple weeks ago we played the Model Sons in a tribute to their show in buffalo. They found out about it via google and sent this letter. I think its great, I hope to see them again when they co0 . . .
On WEDNESDAY the 18th, ALL DAY! elmwoodRADIO will be broadcasting VINTAGE PROPOGANDA. Listen to the 50's era "educational" films and find the answers to questions such as "what do i do 0 . . .
If you click on this http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/blogDisplay/status.php or on the Check Journal Status link in the side bar, you will be presented with data about you how many times your indiv0 . . .
0204/numeroUno.jpg I was just checking our place on google by searching under "elwmood strip" and we finally come up on top. This is a long way from page 6. If you know of anyone who ha0 . . .
0204/chet_side.jpg todays radio brodcast will be none other than jazz legend CHET BAKER for lovers. enjoy! Happy Valantine's Day. 0 . . .
0204/ellen.jpg beginning at noon friday the 13th on elmwoodRADIO0 . . .
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 0204/occurence.jpg Thursday, Februrary 12th 2004 on elmwoodRADIO 11:00pm and again at 11:30pm A Radio Dramatization of the short civil war story by Ambrose Bier0 . . .
0204/sunProject.jpg I am playing the SUN PROJECT on the radio today. Please tune in. If you are interested in Radio Drama. Make sure to turn into Matthew's show tonight at 11. More details are l0 . . .
I added a check, to make sure that each journal entry had a title when posting. Some people had been forgetting to post them with their entries and while it may seem insignificant on your journal, it 0 . . .
The radio is still playing "The Model Sons" but we added aa bunch of "Kimya Dawson" Songs and a "Butchies" song. Please tune in by clicking on the "Elmwood Online R0 . . .
0204/cowLiquify.jpg This is one of the postcards I am making to advertise for the site. I plan on putting them around elmwood. I would like to invite you'll to make postcards as well. Postcards 0 . . .
We are playing "The Model Sons," http://www.modelsons.com/ a Boston Band that played at Mohawk Place on Saturday, on the elmwood radio all day. More information is found on the radio journa0 . . .
Shawnr posted this crazy http://www.drivemeinsane.com/ to his journal and I thought I would re-post it here so more people would see it after his star was gone. The web cam site allows you to not o0 . . .
This post came as an email from Rachel. I hadn't opened it because I thought it was the myDoom Virus as the message was an attachment. It wasn't, and it was quite funny so I am posting it here. I a0 . . .
0204/marriage.jpg "Massachusetts' highest court reiterated today that only full marriage rights for gay couples, not civil unions, would be constitutional. The ruling sets the stage for Massac0 . . .
All together we have typed over 1 million letters now. Congratulations to everyone, thanks for making a million. 0204/million.jpg 0 . . .
The wordcount feature has been recalled because of its competitive nature, unless people demand it back.0 . . .
I have added a little Word Counting function to the journls so that you can see how much you are writing. The reason for the ~ is that it the value is approximate depending how you define a word. Usua0 . . .
0104/globals8_clip.jpg G l o b a l s u p e r 8 d a y Squeaky Wheel (http://www.squeaky.org/events.html) 175 Elmwood Avenue (b/w Allen and North) Friday, January 30, 2004, 8pm $5/$4 me0 . . .
Thanks to all of you that came out to the party, it turned out great. You can see pictures of it on the Southern Yankee journal.0 . . .
0104/paulbday.jpg FRIDAY JANUARY 23RD 2004 Party's at about 9. We appreciate anybody who brings their own beverage/drug/plasticine or a fiver for the works! Happy New China Year! Paul will become 0 . . .
DEMOCRACY NOW can be heard Monday - Friday 8 - 9 AM on WHLD-AM 1270. You can check out the site we made at radiofreebuffalo.org http://www.radiofreebuffalo.org/bcpm/main/index.php for more inform0 . . .
http://buffalo.kicks-ass.org:8080/profiler/estripProfiler.html This is just a glimpse into the future. Please record your feelings about it. If the link does not work, it just means the serve0 . . .
Does anyone have audio work they would like played on our radio station or put in the radio achives. It can be in any audio format, as we can convert them. Please either talk to Paul directly, or em0 . . .
SkillSwap.org http://www.skillswap.org is an online skillSwap group where people with web design skills, teach other novices in small groups for free. Their slogan is "Wake-up to free newmedia t0 . . .
0104/quickUpdate.gif The new quickUpdate box provides you with both a styleBox and an image upload function. It is seriously the fastest way to publish a new journal entry to the web. Try using it 0 . . .
I have added an user email chnage request form to the update page. You can now change your contact email address to something new if desired. However, you must confirm the email address by clicking 0 . . .
Sorry about the major display errors that occurred on Saturday, January 10th. I had made some changes to the site that looked fine on Internet Explorer for PC and had not checked Mac or Mozilla. I t0 . . .
The mail system has been completely revised. 0104/newMail.gif Spammers can no longer harvest our emails off the site and send us junkmail. Also, people sending you email can never see you per0 . . .
Beginning Monday, January 12, 2004 Democracy Now! can be heard five days a week at 8 AM on WHLD-1270 AM. Tune in and tell your friends! Finally a change in the positive direction for Buffalo.0 . . .
1203/030 copy.jpg Matthew, Paul, and Terry, are having a party on NEW YEARS EVE. WEDNESDAY night DECEMBER 31st. Everyone is welcome! BYOB. Hope to see you there. see below for directions ->0 . . .
We are ready to start advertsiing the site in order to gain more members. I would like to see numbers in the 100s by the spring. If everything works out I will then expand to new nodes for other nei0 . . .
1203/terrySarah.jpg Terry and Sarah posing for the site.0 . . .
All you do is type the text you want styled into your stylebox and then click on the appropriate style. Here is what they look like: This is one of the new styles. This is one of the new styles. 0 . . .
1203/styleBox.gif So if the new audio and text chat wasn't enough, check out the new StyleBox, it allows you to simply input the text you want styled into the StyleBox above your journal entry and 0 . . .
Well, the secret is finaly out. The new v1.0 E:Audio and Text Chat is working. You can access it by clicking on the Chat button at the top of the page. Using this you can have free conference calls0 . . .
Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/?a=54004ab834799be6ddfc9a38870e6775 Updates 3D Online World Version 1.2 offers easier-to-use interface, virtual land auctions, Mac Version, and reduced pricing 0 . . .
So we pushed ahead to v1.8. I know v1.7 only had a day but the code changes were definately significant enough for another version change. Now you can upload one image to a new journal entry without0 . . .
I could not sleep and decided to add one more requested feature. It is such an improvement that I am seriouly thinking about making it v1.8 tomorrow. You now can add personalized voice and music m0 . . .
While it is still under development, the beta version of the elmwood journal search engine is being released. You can access it from the search button up top. The search engine accepts boolean s0 . . .
Hey thiswoman Tina, You need to make a new useraccount with no space in the name. Sorry about that. Glad to have you here, Paul0 . . .
The site was down from 11:25 to 11:45 PM due do a mix up with a bad variable. Its back, nothing lost. Sorry about the inconvenience. For those of you who signed up before last week, there will be0 . . .
1203/bush30.jpg Voting begins today for Moveon.org Voter Fund's Bush in 30 Seconds commercials. There are over 1,000 commercials in the running, and 15 will be chosen as finalists. The winn0 . . .
1203/jessMike.jpg I can't believe its that time of the year again. Happy BIrthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear jessica, happy birthday to you. Love, Hello Kitty and the G0 . . .
The radio is on by the way. Please tune and check it out.0 . . .
Check Rachel's journal for a glimpse into the future of e:strip. By the way thanks to everyone who listening to the 11 hours of Lord of The Rings on Sunday. We hope you enjoyed it. If you happend t0 . . .
1203/loth.jpg click on the ELMWOOD ONLINE RADIO link to the right0 . . .
Check the radio page for more information. Alternatively, just click on the e-radio archive link under the userPic and download some of our whacked out test MP3s.0 . . .
Sunday, December 14 No Time Left TC5 The alleged Corpus Dei Minuet Broadway Joes 3051 Main St, Buffalo DOORS AT 3:30 $5 donation Background Information Adele Collins. She has play0 . . .
SUSPENSE and X MINUS ONE will NOT be heard tonight on RADIO FREE ELMWOOD.0 . . .
While it's still in effect the star system where you get a star next to your name if you have updated that daym has a couple bugs, based on the time difference between local Elmwoood time and the time0 . . .
Julie (churchofjulie) mentioned this to me the other day and people since then have asked me about it. Here is a the info. THE ANARCHIST FREE UNIVERSITY - http://www.AnarchistU.org Winter 2004 0 . . .
This is insane but you don't have to take my word for it. And no its not a reading rainbow book review. If you are interested in free web service with a 500MB limit, mysql, php, cgi bin, etc go to 10 . . .
Email elmwood (the link is under the user pic), if you notice any problems with the site that I may have overlooked since the update. Yes I know the faq button only goes to the elmwood journal for no0 . . .
This is a picture I took in Niagara falls a couple years back. Yes, it really does get this icy here in buffalo. 1203/ice.jpg0 . . .
We are moving to the winter look. Please be advised that graphical errors may occur during the upgrade. No fucntionality should be lost. It just might not look pretty. thanks for understanding, 0 . . .
Happy birthday Rachel B. We hope you get all your wishes for blwoing out the candles so 0 . . .
Don't miss SUSPENSE! followed by X MINUS ONE starting at 10:00pm EST on RADIO FREE ELMWOOD!0 . . .
If you are reading this please test the radio by clicking on this http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/includes/elmwoodRadio.m3u and save the file to the desktop. Then double click it and it should op0 . . .
1203/uhearts.jpg "The Unprofessionals" (http://www.angelfire.com/film/fruitcake0/index.html) Friday, Dec 5 at 8pm @ Squeaky Wheel (175 Elmwood Avenue) Experimental films and vi0 . . .
1203/VRML.gif Matthew from Falling for Autumn collaborative is making a web interface for a collorabtive VRML project which needs your input. The project takes your input, places it into a database 0 . . .
If you experienced any peculiarities trying to login today, worry no more. You can now use the traditional update page with no problems. Somehow a variable named Trisha starting popping up and made 0 . . .
Here is a rundown for some of the e:strip v1.5 updates. Its not a huge change from v1.4 to v1.5 but there are some great improvements. 1. The e:strip logo at the top of the banner is a link back to0 . . .
1103/amyDec3.gif Well the Amy Goodman event at Hallwalls is comming up this Wednesday. I hope that I see all of you there. You can see the prices on the flyer above. If anyone would like tickets p0 . . .
The radio is on all day today playing a mix of music including Kimya Dawson.0 . . .
1103/stopftaa.jpg What -- Stop the FTAA! Rally Where -- Niagara Square, Downtown Buffalo, outside of Buffalo City Hall When -- Saturday, November 22nd at Noon Tons of Musical entertainment w0 . . .
Unfortunately, the new Elmwood Radio Station will be down today while I upgrade the server from Windows XP to Suse Linux 8.2. Sory about the inconvenience.0 . . .
1103/border.jpg featuring: Mark Bukowiecki, Sandra Guerreiro, Theresa Baker, Dianne Gilleece, and Isabella Pelissier presented by blue garrote collective Friday and Saturday, Nov 21 & 22 at 8pm0 . . .
So we are having another German radio day. Please tune in and try on another flavor of radio. It is a crazy mix of Bau auf, Bau auf and Freddy Quinn and Nina Hagen to Bluemchen and Stefan Raab. The0 . . .
Join us this Friday, Nov 21, 2003 at 8pm for two films that explore the image of power and the power of the image. Where: Squeaky Wheel, 175 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14201 716-884-7172 w0 . . .
V-P Dick Cheney is in Buffalo today to take part in a $1000/per plate fundraiser. There will be people protesting in the circle. Currently, a van from every news station is there. While Cheney is0 . . .
Today we will be having live radio shows on and off today, tune in and check it out. If not there will be music.0 . . .
There was a bug that was not letting new users log into and update their journals. It has since been fized and I hope to see updates on those journals soon. Sorry about th delay with getting you goi0 . . .
1103/radio.jpg We have finally gotten our radio station up. We are going to be scheduling talk shows in the comming week. I will post them all in a journal called radio. If you have any ideas or w0 . . .
1103/wib.jpg Women in Black (WIB) is a worldwide network of women committed to peace with justice and is actively opposed to war and other forms of violence. Our demonstrations take the form of women0 . . .
1103/WarNMedia.jpg Our very own Holly from elmwoodstrip has designed a page for the War and Media Conference being held at UB http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/classes/dms/berna/mrd/media/confer/ The U0 . . .
1103/BCPM.gif The Coalition for Progressive Media, is being established to facilitate and organize the development of progressive media in the Buffalo metropolitan area. Our first goal is to bring 0 . . .
1103/nike.jpg The Committee for the Promotion of Justice would like to call to your attention an important event that will take place on campus on Tuesday, November 11. The Student Justice Board o0 . . .
The first meeting of the soon-to-be Coalition for Progressive Media has taken place and the dream of a Democracy Nowified Buffalo begins to coalesce. The meeting basically discussed the various ways t0 . . .
One of my most excellent Digital Media arts students, who also plays in the band Minuet http://minuet.fallingforautumn.net/ , will be performing this Friday at the Continental. I am sure it will be 0 . . .
Sorry to anybody that tried to sign up for elmwood on Tuesday, Julie pointed out that it wasn't working. Thanks for alerting me. I updated the code late Monday night and left out a comma. I guess c0 . . .
Mike scannedd in lots of pics of the party. Check out his journal.0 . . .
1103/ccam.jpg I have finally added the elmwood web cam. To see the live image please click on the link called ElmwoodCam in the Link List under the user picture. It updates every five seconds. 0 . . .
1103/soundlab.gif We are going to soundlab tonight. They have moved to a new location on Pearl Street. I added a link to their site to links section on this page. Check it out if you want to go. 0 . . .
We had up to 60 people at any given point. Everyone was very happy it seemed. Lots of food and spirits. Holly won the best costume prize at 1103/hollySpider.jpg Not enough pictures were take0 . . .
The update page is extremely updates. Here it goes. 1. No more copying image code. Simply click on the image in your list and the code is automatically added to your entry. 2. No more Break 0 . . .
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal or hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the redness and the horrot of blood. There were shar0 . . .
http://www.bushin30seconds.org 1003/bush30.jpg Robin brought this to our attention via the UB list serve . . .
Image Uploads I have added image upload capability to everyone's journal update page. Email I have also activated email accounts for all users except emily and chris. I do not know what password0 . . .
Loren from Access Community has brought the wireless network idea back onto the forefront. He wants to do it now. Maybe we should too. The idea being to create a free wireless natwork around elmwoo0 . . .
Dear Mr. Visco: Thank you for taking the time to write us regarding your dissatisfaction with the manager of our Elmwood Avenue store on Auburn e:new,29677 . It is through the efforts of concerned0 . . .
I experienced a tragic racist situation at Wilson Farms today. Below is my letter to Wilson Farms recounting the situation. You can respond in the forum on our site, as well as, send your thoughts t0 . . .
I spent a lot of time working on the code this weekend. There are lots more features. You can now upload images to our server. The page then gives you the address of the image and the code you woul0 . . .
I am trying to add more feature requests as they come in. One problem I am having is that as soon as many people sign up we are going to need some sort of way to categorize them in order to have them0 . . .
This week I am releasing the long awaited Elmwood strip 1.2. I has many new features, most of which you can already check out. First of all you can now add links and images to your journal entires v0 . . .
The journals are free as always but now we are thinking of offering webspace for our elmwoodstrip.com users own homepages. If you re interested in this service please contact me0 . . .
Let it long live in peices sold on ebay. The powerbook met a 40oz bottle of beer in an unfortunate accident and is no longer with us. This is the powerbook that was used to create this page. I am t0 . . .
Most of you are probably aware of the events surrounding last month's cirtical mass ride. In short, the ride was stopped by police officers and the end result was unnecessary use of violence by police0 . . .
Well I have suffered some major setbacks. First off the trackpad died on the powerbook which had to be sent back in to get fixed. While it was in for repair, the memory chip died. Then when I final0 . . .
I worked a lot more to make the whole site have a common look. Although, I am not incredibly happy with the image it is set up to be easily configerable when I have a little more creative inspiration0 . . .
Well although there were a billion and a half problems most of them have been worked out. This page has most extensively been tested on a Macintosh running OS X and Safari. It is built exclusively w0 . . .
To the left you find the region known as the sideBar. On each page the sideBar has information pertaining to the function of that page. I hope to be developing a control system with more customizabl0 . . .