Posts from May 2006

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 journal and you stats, I will finsih restoring comment when I get home from my friend sang's graduation.

I am so sorry please don't hate me, it was a total freak accident.

--update two
with all of vincents views back we are now over 3,000,000

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. If you are logged in and viewing your own journal, it doesn't add to the views. So these are other people viewing your journals.

Bumper Stickers
The 300 magnetic bumper stickers shipped yesterday so they should be here some time next week.

Commas in Stats
I also added commas to all the statistic numbers in the data stripe at the top of the site. The numbers were getting unruly without them. Thanks to the PHP number_format() function

Comment Stats
Then I added the total number of comments to the front page, the total number of comments on eahc journal to the journal, and the total number of comments posted by each user.

Deleted Peeps
I also deleted a good 100 peeps tonight after ample warnign about not using their accounts ever. That frees up their usernames againa nd reduces the amount of crap I have to backup when I backup the server.

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 remember buffalo

This is so early preview but I figured someone might have fun playing with it.

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 you didn't have it enabed in your prefs. Sorry about that.

@paul 2062
@metalpeter 637
@news 599 <-- also mostly paul
@matthew 594
@robin 508
@mike 465
@ajay 458
@terry 425
@lilho 406
@jason 331
@twisted 309
@maidencateyes 292
@southernyankee 290
@ladycroft 244
@springfaerie 239
@soyeon 212
@shawnr 208
@hodown    192
@mk 186
@uncutsaniflush    185
@jill 173
@lisa 163
@emily 162
@theecarey 156
@leetee 155
@stickboy 153
@joshua 145
@drchlorine 143
@jessbob 141
@flacidness 137
@scud 137
@rachel 135
@holly 135
@jenks 128
@julie 119
@boxerboi 118
@codypomeray 110
@alison 101

Something happend at artvoice and all their network connections went down - so our site went down too. Maybe @zobar knows more about it. Seems to be back now and everything looks okay.

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, simply click on options->folder preferences once you are logged into the webmail client. Then select the appropriate Inbox.drafts, Inbox.sent, and Inbox.trash for each of the boxes you want to enable.

Everything is good now. Silly PDO for SQLITE 3 is so tricky.

Should be done soon. You should notice any change.

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. Now I need to compile it for the (e:strip) linux server which is much more of a chore. I am glad I didn't bother for 5.1.3 as there was a major bug with $_POST variables that would have made a mess of my life.

Finally this version lets you ignore errors thrown by GD when working with jpegs. Anyone who has worked with mobile phone images knows that this is a blessing. Also some upgrades to simplexml for creating nodes and attribute. Here is the whole changelog since PHP 5.

Hopefully, everything turns out great like every other PHP upgrade we have had since version 4.0.3.