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 a great guy. He even gave me a quick lesson about film speed.

I imagine this will dirve a lot more traffic to the site which is already growing leaps and bounds in the last couple of weeks.



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On a totally different note, if anyone wants to donate money toward the anticpated expansion of server space that will be required soon, please feel free to click on the donate button. Currently, (e:matthew) (e:terry) , and I are paying for it all and any donations would be appreciated. The donations can be made using paypal (secure) which I believe accepts all kinds of cards, bank transfers, checks, etc. If you click on the link it will take you to a paypal page with our site information filled out.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/16/04 21:58 >>Updated By: paul 09/16/04 21:59 >>Updated By: paul 09/19/04 20:00 >>Updated By: paul 09/19/04 20:00

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 others we haven't met.!?

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 live site anymore!!



>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/14/04 23:19

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 features so you can pick your default feed and add them to the list. Thanks for the syndic8 link (e:sqb) !

>>Posted By: paul

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 Confirmed: 128
Users With Text: 98
Total Journals: 4954
Images Uploaded: 1805
Sounds Uploaded: 8
SWFs Uploaded: 12

>>Posted By: paul

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 syndicated news text and replacing it with little web page feeds. Why not just visit the site if you want style and images, right? Well, a bunch of people have asked me for the images. This leads to the problem where I have to put the entire entry text into CDDATA to blog it from being validated. Those of you that understand this, what do you think?

I mean it is convenient to have the rss feed serve the images, but then having HTML markup in the feed makes it not as "tasty" for others to syndicate. Mmind you other people are doing this all over. For example boingBoing.net, my favorite news on rss at

They even use styles and css. Should I have two feeds?

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 18:01

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 proper links, and proper time. Ialso added parapgraph returns and images as requested by (e:chris) and his sidekick.



(e:sqb)

Thanks, Paul...I like the new "preview" mode with images and returns but for some reason the entries in my reader are all off by +1 hour.

What reference do you use to code for RSS?

- mike

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 02:54 >>Updated By: sqb 09/09/04 08:48

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>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/07/04 18:13 >>Updated By: radio 09/07/04 18:17

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 16:07

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 they have had dealing with you and your various businesses. I would like to encourage you to go ahead a start a journal to defend yourself, because right now you are looking like quite a jackass.

I wasn't really too interested in the issue until it occurred to me that some people are beginning to delete their online identities and thoughts because of a fear of retribution from you. Nothing makes me crazier than people having to delete what they wrote because they are afraid. It's like deleting a little piece of history.

What I do know is that several years ago, my friend Jessica (e:hodown,22584), rented from you and had some unpleasant experience where she never ended up moving in but did end suing you over the issue. I remember specifically that she won the case but unfortunately, you never paid the money. It made her really angry as she was very poor at the time and needed that money for her new apartment. Being a naive young woman at the time, she mistakenly thought that once you win a case in court you actually get the money awarded to you. That was before we realized that there is no real enforcement for those types of cases and that people like you can easily move money around. I guess you have to know an officer in order to get your payment. I couldn't help her out at the time.

It seems another friend of mine had a similar problem with you (e:maidencateyes,26637), winning a court case against you, followed by you never paying out. What makes you do that? It cannot be good for your reputation to lose in court and never pay out. Someone obviously thinks you are legally "guilty" of something if you lost twice in court. Is there more to the story that we are missing out on?

This ability for the public to expose people that scam others should not be taken lightly. It is a way for people to protect themselves from businesses that have unsavory practices. The forum I developed here was highly influenced by my mothers experience as the Director of Call for Action on Channel 4. What they do there is expose scam artists on the television news. Here the process is a little easier. There is no mediator between the user and the medium. Unfortunately, that can lead to a situation where one is falsely accused. So go ahead and defend yourself, unless that is you can't even defend your own behaviour.

EBAY UPDATE

Here is a to the ebay business he was running. Thanks peter for looking it up here, so we could connect it all. This is the ebay business that got closed down and was reported about in the Buffalo News as ajay reported (e:ajay,20093) a while back.

This guy has the worst feedback ever. No wonder the DA was investigating his business.

jazzman357: Ripped Off, never sent product, no reply to email or phone, no refund, Avoid!

brandy91057: NEVER AGAIN: Payment made/no merch. sent! No calls/emails returned!

de0457: have not received item. very disappointed.

schwarb3: DO NOT BUY- OUT OF BUSINESS AND HOLDING MY MONEY- $1,200!!!

eaglecontractors: E bayer out of business cancelled paypal

chipchaseBuyer eaglecontractorseagle Paid& never recieved merchandise! This piece of garbage still has ebay listings!

rsknapp: Per Buffalo News, bidwell is out of business. I cancelled PayPal.

ditwad: emails and 2 phone calls & still haven't received item or refund.
        
billiecruns:     I never received the order. This person is a crook! You owe me $100.00

paddymimms: Major conartist, liar
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thief and a cheat.Misrepresented item and ripped me off!

ceverinod: I have not recieved anything please me my money back or send the item