06/09/04 12:50 - ID#30984

I heart XML and RSS

XML and RSS rock my world. Now you can also have your world rocked by RSS newsfeeds thanks to some slick evening programming of mine. Check out the news journal [inlink]news,329[/inlink] for more information and find out how to explore RSS.

The best part about this whole RSS newfeed thing is that many people making the feeds are not even the creators of the sites. They are people doing something called scraping. Scaping is taking important content off a another web site and sending it as an RSS feed. For example, a news site minus the advertisments.

Rss is also very mobile because the feeds are little. Using the mac program on the news journal, you can even read your RSS feeds on you iPod. I read them on my phone. They are fast, fun, and efficient and you can find hundreds of RSS feeds out there to subscribe to. Also try searcing on feedster, the online search engine for RSS feeds. Sharpreader

can search feedster

right from the program.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/08/04 06:58 - ID#30983

Avenge September 11th

What is up with this sign at the poster shop on Bird and Elmwood. Does anyone else find it offensive and uneccessary in 2004, three years after the fact and after we have seen what horrible side-effects that type of attitude has on international stability and peace.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/08/04 06:04 - ID#30982

Elmwood Wireless Network

I am out and about with the sidekick and have lots to say I guess. I am eating a Pano's with matthew and lisa.

Here's what I've been thinking about, at Pano's.

Wireless Elmwood Network
First, I heard that caffe aroma has wireless internet, at least I think I did.

Does anyone know if it is free? We have free internet by the (e:strip) headquaters on elmwood and lafayette and I think Off the Wall has it to.

Anyone interested in helping develop a huge free internet zone before some corporate crackhead does? Let's set up a meeting. I think we could do it really cheaply and maybe even get a grant if we tie it in with the site and community somehow.

I imagine the site being the homepage for the giant network. It would be a great way for a free network to represent the people on it and not some lame advertising.

The worst case scenario, is some corporates make the site and when you sign on, you are bombarded with corporate propaganda / advertisements such as M&T offering you free checking. I think we need to act before it happens. Imagine, it would be like living in a virtual pop-up zone. I bet you could get whiplash from the pop-up waves.

Which brings me to the point that I think elmwood would be much better with a giant parking lot on one end or both ends, and then have a limited traffic zone. When I lived in Flensburg, Germany for school, they had a terrific area like this. People might say there is no room for parking, I say just use up part of the street. Deliveries can happen at night. Similar to what Ithica has downtown.

The streets here suck anyways. Look at the picture I captured below as I practically trip over the pot-holes writing this on my way down the street.

Anyone, care to discuss this?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/08/04 05:25 - ID#30981

Trash Can

Who the hell stole my trash can, I hope you
die. Nothing is trashier than stealing a garbage can.

I want it back, if I find you with my garbage can the wrath of the
digital mafia will consume you.

Please bring it back to my house before Thursday.

Paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/08/04 04:22 - ID#30980

Chalk Night

Anyone wanna chalk with me tonight? It's the last day we can chalk before the rain.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/07/04 09:59 - ID#30979

Forever Elmwood Info

Robin,
In response to [inlink]robin,179[/inlink] .

A lot of (e:people) seem to have anomosity towards forever elmwood, especially when it involves the Elmwood Art Festival or the Coop. Maybe some of the rest of you know more about it? I missed the 80's on elmwood, so I can't really say how it was? How about the rest of you?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/07/04 09:58 - ID#30978

Who are the people in your neighborhood

Wow, we have so many new people here. We should plan some sort of social event. Trisha and I have been talking about a scavenger hunt with journal based clues, etc for couple months. Anybody else have an idea? It could be really fun to organize something like that with clues online and then al around the elmwood area.

I am also going to start prgramming the restaurant review section. I just need some inspiration from the chicken wing fairy, so I am heading off to Anchor to get started.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/06/04 10:48 - ID#30977

Mishaps in Banner Land

I was working on some stuff for the site when I logged out and realized the banners were not working when logged out. It happend after I fixed the banner code this morning. So that whole episode led to a 15 minute down-time period at around 8 o'clocl. I appologize to any of you who were logged on at that point. It's kind of emabrassing after we promoted so hard today, I hope no one went and found it closed.

Some of the (e:peeps) came over tonight for a corn and shrimp roast. We had some problems with the lighter fluid/coal situation and ended up with some weirdly toxic veggies. Everything else was delicious.

Maidencateyes, also added a banner, it's of a flower at Buffalo state. Kind of pink and purplish.

More people signed up. I think there are probably even more coming in the near future, as everyone is not as wired as me. Some people actually have to go home to use the internet. Must be a tragic life, I can't imagine anymore. Oh wait, I can imagine, that is what camping is like, lol.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/07/04 04:01 - ID#30976

UB Micro Windows XP Giveaway

Little did Holly and I know
that we actually already bought windows XP. Tina alerted me that As a
UB student we get free copies of Office XP Pro. Well free as in we
already paid for it with our student technology fee. So we headed out
today and got our copies. It only cost 3.00 for the CD and I got a copy
of Office 2003 Pro as well. What else am I paying for and don't know
about?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/07/04 11:34 - ID#30975

Sound Stuff

I am going to change all of the in journal sound player functions over to the flash plugin. I am so sick of the different system checks. Everytime I change something, I need to test it in Netscape (PC and Mac), safari, IE (PC and Mac), konquerer (linux), Mozilla Firefox (PC, Mac, and Linux.) There are always problems with different plugins for sound media.

Plus I really think that people don't always have the quicktime or equivalent plugin due to its bigger download size while the flash player seems to be everywhere and mostly preinstalled. Any feelings about this from the (e:peeps)? I know its not open source, but neither is quicktime and both are free.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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