📅 August 2004

Happy 21st birthday @mike. We hope you enjoy it.

>>Posted By: news

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 leave notes like, "hey idiot, the sign up page doesn'work."

This was an exceptionally bad period of time for it to be down considering the fact that the festival brought many people to the site after seeing the banner by the main stage. I am so disappointed in the fact that I forgot to check it and make sure after I chnaged the configuration file on Friday. The error was only the difference between "signup" and "signUp."


>>Posted By: paul

@paul , @southernyankee , and @terry are showing off their homemade elmwoodstrip t-shirts at the elmwood art festival.

>>Posted By: matthew >>Updated By: matthew

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: paul

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: news

Paul, might I recommend www.dict.org as an alternative to Wiktionary? It is open-source, and uses non-copyrighted dictionaries. Yes, the latest words like "chillax" might not be there, but for the older stuff, it is quite complete.

>>Posted By: ajay

In an effort to keep with the comunity based media idea, I have switched the elmwoodstrip offical dictionary from the commercial dictionary.com to the open source wiktionary.org .

Wiktionary, like wikipedia, lets users define their own entries which are editable by others. There are some rules so check out the site for details. I added chillax [dict]chillax[/dict], as coined by Jesssica Ho in 1993. The definations are often different from dictionary.com e.g. geek [dict]geek[/dict] is defined how it should be and not as some circus sideshow freak that eats the heads off of chickens. Some definations are very well written. All can be very well written e.g. appearance [dict]appearance[/dict]. Test it out if you get a chance.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul

You can finally upload multiple media files!! Thanks to @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 swoop. Simply choose the number of media files you want to upload in your journal write box and then browse for them. When you are done, click th eupload media button. You will get feeback if there are any problems. Email me if you find any problems.

>>Posted By: paul

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, please IM me at paulsidekick or email me right away.

Thanks, Paul

>>Posted By: paul

>>Posted By: matthew