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Category: estrip

04/22/08 06:01 - 74ºF - ID#44104

Estrip short outage possible

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 there isn't so much as link lights from the telco on the circuit card so not good news...

I'm working with Level3 to see what's up - they did warn they might have to do "intrusive troubleshooting" - i.e. take the circuit offline and test it in loopback mode. Last time we had a problem like this, they insisted on testing the good circuit as well as the trouble one, leaving us totally disconnected... so if they go that route again there might be a brief (few minutes) of total outage. Here's to hoping not... that's all I know so far though, but figured I'd pass it on.

-Anthony
Artvoice

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: stats

03/26/08 11:42 - 32ºF - ID#43803

Quick Stats Overview of Estrip

So I have been doing lots of Adobe 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 I noticed that the Flash 9 player is used by 99%+ of userw. That is some seriously insane market penetration. Thanks youtube and xtube. I freakin love Flex. I am so excited about like more excited than I have been about anything web in so long.

Here are some visitor stats

Notice that Firefox is now more popular than IE!

Over one year, the traffic is steadily growing.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

02/20/08 10:45 - 16ºF - ID#43411

I am a physician, blah, blah, blah

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. Why would should not have provided me with the link in the first place?

02/20/08 02:02@70.190.160.116 Guest wrote:

Hi do you guys have a webmaster? My name is coming up on a google search with slanderous material and I need to speak with the webmaster about this and hopefully remove this blog. Please e-mail me at jessica7273 AT yahoo.com I would very greatly appreciate this.

--- Paul Visco wrote:

> You would need to contact the user who wrote it. On
> each blog page there is
> a little yellow post it icon under the userpic.
> This allows you to message
> the user who wrote the post.
>
> Can you also send me a link to the page it is on. I
> can then take up the
> issue with the blogger.
>
> Thanks,
> paul
>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:26 PM, REMOVED EMAIL wrote:

The blog is over 1 year old, the girl who posted it is
severely mentally ill, she has been arrested for
attacking my mother and is being arraigned this week,
she hallucinates seeing me and we have a restraining
order against her. She is obsessed with me and I have
not had any contact with her in years nor do I intend
to contact her. I would prefer to not have to contact
my attorney to get this done. I have not lived in
Buffalo nor even visited there in years, I am married
with a husband as well as I am a physician. The
information on your blog is slanderous as well as a
defamation of character and I am assuming that you
have some control over what is posted. She apparently
is not a frequent blogger on your site rather has only
posted 1 random blog and as this comes up when you
google my name it should be removed. So please let me
know what other channels you have for this process.

Then I said:

I am willing to work with you on this. But if you do not give me the link to the blog, I cannot help you. How do you expect me to be able to locate the blog or the girl from the description you have given me in the last two contacts? Do you expect me to search for all blogs over 1 year old written by a girl.

Paul

hodown writes at 11:51:41 02/22/08 - Comment #31981: (e:jenks) has solved the mystery! awesome. I was soo curious. Sounds like everyone involved is a bit crazy.

metalpeter writes at 05:51:54 02/21/08 - Comment #31946: Here is my take the person who wrote in claims that the person who wrote the blog stalked and harresed her but the person who wrote the blog says it is the other way around. So one or both of them are lying and you shouldn't have to figure it out. I also think that the blog should stay up. I think if she doesn't want it to show up in search results she should get in touch with google and not you, what happens when you search for her name on ask, or yahoo or is it only google. If it is only google then she needs to be contacting them not you. I don't run the site but I wouldn't do anything except to maybe tell her that you don't control a search engine and she should contact them instead.

ladycroft writes at 03:25:31 02/21/08 - Comment #31920: Weird.

jenks writes at 03:22:41 02/21/08 - Comment #31919: ok I think I figured it out. I went through and looked for people with only one post, and found this. Have to admit, it DOES sound like the poster is a little crazy.

:::link:::

jenks writes at 03:10:37 02/21/08 - Comment #31916: if you google the email address she sent, you get some journal article with her contact info- something about "southwest college of naturopathic medicine"

physician my ass.

jason writes at 02:56:20 02/21/08 - Comment #31914: Passions? The one with the, ahem, trying to be PC here, "little" person? Cough.

hodown writes at 02:52:56 02/21/08 - Comment #31913: Oh and yes because you are a Physician clearly you are more important than anyone.

hodown writes at 02:52:17 02/21/08 - Comment #31912: This sounds exactly like the Soap Opera Passions that was taken off the air and (e:Mike) was so sad. Well (e:Mike) dispair no more Passions (e:strip) style is back!!

jenks writes at 01:50:59 02/21/08 - Comment #31904: whoa! mother attacks? hallucinations? restraining order? obsession? defamation of character?

This is some good drama!
Who is she talking about?!

dragonlady7 writes at 09:50:51 02/21/08 - Comment #31897: Any slim sympathy I might have had for her is entirely removed by the fact that, indeed, she never tells you what post, what user, what entry, anything. She doesn't even tell you her name so you could Google it yourself!! (And even still, are you expected to scroll through the forty pages of results that come up, and figure out which one it is? Christ, all you've got to go on is that her name is probably Jennifer. For fuck's sake!)
The fact that it's a user who never posts is making it so much more likely that you're going to know the person.

I have this problem all the time at work: people think that they are the only person you are ever going to have to deal with, and are always shocked, and often offended, when you mention that actually you deal with hundreds of people in a day, most of whom have THEIR EXACT PROBLEM. They really hate it when you finish their sentences, too, as they struggle to describe their unique issue. "I know," I say. "I've had four calls just like this today. Here's what I told the others."
"But I [random detail]," they say.
"Yes, that's typical."
"... Oh."
The sensible ones are reassured, the less-so are offended. You know what? You're a unique fucking snowflake, sure, but there are a damn lot of snowflakes out there and they're pretty similar really. Get over yourself.

... Man I'm just on a rant rampage today. :D

zobar writes at 09:18:32 02/21/08 - Comment #31896: Ya, let me read that post before you take it down. It sounds like a real torrid soap opera. And if you don't take it down I suppose she could commiserate with my little French friend over here. (e:zobar,43018)

- Z

joshua writes at 08:54:07 02/21/08 - Comment #31894: Ha! I think these people who believe that they are on a higher social pecking order are too arrogant for their own good. Don't they understand the law?

jason writes at 08:25:59 02/21/08 - Comment #31892: Gold. Keep it coming.

mrdeadlier writes at 11:26:42 02/20/08 - Comment #31889: Well, whatever happens don't mention Google's cache or archive.org!

Oops, too late.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: artvoice

02/15/08 07:48 - 20ºF - ID#43350

Artvoice Best Of Buffalo 2008

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?

There is a category for best blogger and I selfishly voted for myself. You can feel free to vote for yourselves.

--paul

::Download Flash Video::

Like the sound of (e:Terry)'s new hack and kill game with the girl with the red hair in the background? Sounds like I am reporting at some battle ground.

metalpeter writes at 12:52:03 02/16/08 - Comment #31739: I voted before I came here, there are all kinds of things I didn't answer because they don't apply to me. I think that there should be a new section devoted just to sports or maybe even a sub catorgory. Say Favortie local sport (like roller derby or college basketball) amature then a sub catgory of favortie team in that sport and then of that team favorite player. Maybe the team part could be elimanted but I would like to see a stronger sports presance maybe there could be more internet stuff also but not sure how you would do that really. Maybe best local site other then artvoice. Maybe even best social networking site (that could include national ones also) or maybe make it networking is there some local job networking sites?

paul writes at 11:01:20 02/16/08 - Comment #31732: Wow, that was fast :::link:::

zobar writes at 10:57:17 02/15/08 - Comment #31723: They actually ditched a number of categories this year â€¦ 'Best Blog' as you've noticed has turned into 'Best Blogger,' with 'Best Website' gone [I guess they were fed up with getting trounced in our own people's choice award]. They also got rid of a lot of the snarkier 'Most Rotten Person'-type awards. (e:dragonlady7) was saddened to see the 'Favorite Local Amateur Sports Team' and 'Athlete' awards gone, but in retrospect it beats the alternative [ie, 80 women totally infuriated at each other over a popularity contest].

One idea is to blow the curve in a category nobody participates in. Let me put it this way: when we say 'Blogger,' everyone says 'Buffalo Pundit,' whether they read it or not. But only about six people in the city are going to have an opinion on Buffalo's Best Writer [and if AV's book reviews are any indication, they're probably all terrible writers of terrible poetry]. Or maybe (e:terry) is Buffalo's Best Genre-Defying Artist. How much of AV's aging white readership is really going to have an opinion on Best Soul Food? Can it really compare to (e:matthew)'s hypothetical chicken and gluten-free waffles? Just sayin'.

Another fun idea is to vote as a bloc in a category that does not generally invite consensus. Everyone has an opinion on Loudest Complainer, and they're all different. [Unfortunately I don't think the Loudest Complainer gets a plaque, too bad.] The 24 could certainly be my Favorite House or Building, but there's always the terrible possibility of losing that category to the Terminal.

You can totally win this, and create small amounts of public chaos at the same time - a win-win - if you use a little imagination.

- Z

drew writes at 09:15:45 02/15/08 - Comment #31722: I feel like we should vote as a bloc, so that we have more influence. Shall we have an estrip primary, and then all go and vote for the winner at the artvoice site?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

02/07/08 02:32 - 33ºF - ID#43225

8 more comments till 30,00

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?!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

02/03/08 11:51 - 32ºF - ID#43157

Cornering the Market on Search

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 elmwood in the search term, but these are without.

Google Web Searches

warcraft sex - (e:shawnr,34230) #3

dong count - (e:jason,23538) #1

irresponsible dumb jerk - (e:theecarey,35835) #1

deinspiration - (e:imk2,37781) and (e:imk2,37795) #1 and #2

i don't like you that way - (e:theecarey,39212) #2 only after Idontlikeyouthatway.com

video liquidators - (e:paul,38302) #2 only to video-liquidators.com themselves

doctor fucking - (e:james,42894) #5

wegmans wifi - (e:paul,43004) #5

hypoallergenic dog breeds - (e:paul,32816) #7

nudist vacation adirondacks (e:paul,40394) #3

Google Images

There are a bizillion search combos we come up for. Some of the most popular are:

1900 house- Our living room comes up in row two

house buffalo, ny - our living room comes up along side the Darwin Martin and Coit house

linwood ave - our house is #1

nudist adirondacks - hm
naked adirondacks - hm
vermont ledges - hm
vermont ledges naked - hm
zoar valley naked - hm

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

02/02/08 02:55 - 32ºF - ID#43139

100% of server fund has been raised

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

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

01/30/08 01:17 - 51ºF - ID#43089

NFTA Bus Schedules Made Easy - Buffalo

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 so sick of navigating the stupid NFTA site to get the Bus schedule PDFs on my mobile. Its also at a simpler URL, estrip.org/nfta

If you mobile doesn't do PDFS then this isn't so great but its still an easier way to load the PDFs on your computer for printing. Because of this I added a jpeg version as well. If you click the jpeg link next to a route, it converts the pdf to jpeg on the file for you so that you can view it with any image viewer. Maybe I will do a plain text version soon, if I have some time.

It sucks that the schedules are in PDF format for most people but hopefully this at least makes them easier to get to. If I have time I might convert the data as well.

Download the NFTA metro rail and bus schedules for Buffalo, NY and save them somewhere

--Paul Visco

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

01/27/08 06:45 - 29ºF - ID#43052

A slow sunday

Looks like no one has anything to say right now. I hope everyone else's weekend was better than mine.

--paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

01/21/08 10:21 - 13ºF - ID#42971

Switching Servers

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 center. Then we will be one step closer to estrip v6.

At first it will just run estrip v5 like the current site but having both versions on one server will make it much easier for me to transition the data between the versions.

So at some point today the site may be down for a tiny bit.
--paul

P.S. If anyone still wants to donate to the server fund we almost made it all the way to 100%. Thanks to everyone who helped - your support gives estrip a bright future with a new fancy server.