Dinner at the Vietnamese Restaurant
Today, I went to dinner with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) at the vietnamese restaurant across from Casa di Pizza on elmwood near West Utica. They have some of the best food I have ever eaten and it's really inexpensive. For $1.75, they have this really strong coffee with sweetend condensed milk, I suggest all of you try out.

Writing Books
At dinner (e:terry) told me that a book consists of around 30,000 words. This was in reference to the new statistics. As of this journal entry, I have written about 93,800 words, or about 3 books. It's amazing how much I've had to say about my life and the development of this site during the last year. Maybe, I will keep a database of the rest of my life. That's the nice thing about it being my own project. I can always port the data here or there and take the information with me into my various other projects.

So what did I actually accomplish today.?
I spent the rest of today working on the site as usual. I seems pretty crazy that I have put more than a years worth of work into this project. I learn so much everyday. It's starting to be really fun because it's at a much higer level of development than had though it could be. If it were a video game I would be on level 17 and have 13 more levels to go before I beat the end guy.

After refining and refining, it becomes increasingly quick and easy to add new features and content. It's amazing how many things share the same functions too. I remember when i first started back in March of 2003 everythign was so linear. Thankfully, those days of long rows of confusing code are almost totally gone, everything is modular and reusable now. Its much more fun this way, and it definatly makes coding much more error free.

I fixed some design glitches with some messed up div widths. I finally decided to fix the email update system, and in turn, the confirmation email system. It now sends confirmation emails sucessfuly to yahoo, hotmail, and aol. Although I did notice it takes the longest for them to arrive at an AOL address.

I also fixed the startup sound drama. The start-up sound only plays once per visit now which was the original intention. I made it so that I could leave audio notes about updates and upcomming events. Unfortunately, I could just never use it before because it plyed several times and anything longer than 1 second was annoying. Fixing it was not hard, I just needed to do some little javascript function. It just wasn't the most important thing on the list. Now it is standardized into a nice little function and keeps track of itself properly.

Most importantly though, I fixed the inlink system. I now gives you the same functionality as your regular journal update box and detects if the inlink window is already open when you click on a second inlink. The second inlink is just added to the bottom of the journal, instead of replacing your journal with the second inlink like it used to. I can't tell you how many journal entries I lost to this glitch, I hope none of you had the same problem, although I am sure some people did.

I think next I am going to work on more flash stuff and some style box update so you can stylize your text some more.

Too boring for (e:terry)
I feel really bad that I have become too boring for (e:terry) . I don't really know what to do anymore, because I am so bored of going out drinking, etc and nobody has any ideas what to do, I always end up programming which inevitably makes him angry. I hope someday we can resolve this before he kills me.

Computer Linguistics
While javascripting for the inlinks and some email stuff, I thought a lot about how all of the computer languages are so related. Now, with my thorough background in PHP is much easier approaching javascript. It gave e the same warm feeling I had when i would fi
nd a french word in german. There are just so
m
any things that are fundamentally similar and ,of course, lots of differences of course. I wonder if there are computer ueber-geeks who are computer linguist and study the morphology of this. If not, I want to be one. Maybe I could some how turn this into a PHD.

Those of you that know me well, know that I tend to shave like three times a year. Well, today was one of them. Unfortunately, I forgot that I have had a beard / moustache for so long that it blocked the sun from tanning my face there. Tomorrow is supposed to by sunny so I hope it will get tan like the rest of my face.



On another note, I finished fixing the email update beta program. If anyone else is interested in receiving journal updates via email, please feel free to contact me!

You can turn them on and off using the # control panel.

Hey jess, welcome here. I hate to tell you but that myspace [inlink]sonargirl,2[/inlink] site freaks me out. It is free as an obvious ploy to get people to give up their personal shopping habits and friends circle in order to sell trageted advertisiments.

Once you sign up for a free account, you give them shopping habit data, by filling in your personal information and mixing it with social network, class data, computer type, location. Then at the bottom of the page, where you can click on advertise, other data-pigs buy that information and then retarget you with the object's they know "you need."

Check out this quote from the privacy policy





From time to time, MySpace.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on myspace.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.


OR THIS PART
MySpace members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal MySpace address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.

Translates - You can give all all of your friends data too.

OR THIS
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by MySpace.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by MySpace.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

OR THIS
MySpace reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of MySpace or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.


Then the kicker
(6060 Center Drive Suite 310, Los Angeles CA 90045

So I guess that goes to makes it 100% everything I stand against in a web community.
Did anybody else check it out?

Here is a picture I captured from the 567 in e-ville during the apocalypse.



On another note MSN has release a technology preview of there new internet searching technology. Here is what I got after searching for elmwood strip without any quotes

It seem scrazy that we are almost every link 1-10. (e:lisa) somehow has two actual journal entries caches. Look at the last two results.

Last night, while getting into some trouble with (e:rachel) and (e:southernyankee) we stopped at Holly farms so that (e:rachel) could get some money out of the ATM. (e:southernyankee) was looking for a snack and while we walked around I found this most disgusting treat. They could at least make it sound more tasty than fat back with 100% skin attached.

Mr. Kerry and his little jingoist puppet friend are both rich scumbags that have no idea what's it's like to live like normal people. It makes me sick when they pretend they do and I am so tired of hearing the, "but they are not George Bush Campaign." That is officially the weakest political platform I have ever heard of. Last night while at a bar I was watching an advertisement on Televsion with a flying American flag that caught my attention. At the end it printed "Vote Kerry, he is not Bush" to the screen.

I am seriously not voting for him even if it means GWB becomes president again. I just don't want to feel the personal sense of responsibility when they continue the war. Right now I can say, the war wasn't my idea, I didn't vote for president Bush and I have no interest in war.

By voting for Killer Kerry- I am actually voting for someone who has physically killed possibily innocent people for being communist, someone who will continue our present war tactics and "double special forces." And I will always know, I voted for that. Are they really going to be any different? When the woman in pink at the convention who shouted out, "Bring our boys home from Vietnam(iraq)" and unfurled a peace banner during the Teresa Heins speech, she was dragged away by police. What kind of message is that sending? It really surprised me, because whenever they interviewed people outside they seemed so anti-war. I really thought that people would have cheered for the woman. It would have included a lot more people, I think, instead of having her dragged out by police as she shouted, "What about free speech"

The convention speeches all maintained George bush's War stance. Nothing was really said about peace, only that we shouldn't hate the soldiers which infuriates me the most. Come on, who is pulling the trigger.

I am 100% not proud of Kerry, his killer war past or his vote for George Bush's war plans. I got so horrifed when one of the speakers (maybe obama) said that would should forgive Kerry's vote for the war because he was only trusting the President, something a senator should be able to do! That is just not true. The reason that Senators exist is because presidents have a tendency toward untrustworthyness, that's what makes them not-kings.

At the end of his speech edwards also said "god bless you, and god bless America." He vowed to expand the military by doubling special forces and threatend terrorists that there is no where to hide. It seems to me that statements like that must infuriate the terrorists even further. Both those statements sound like he stole them right from a Geroge Bush speech.

Does anyone really believe the promises of heathcare? I remember that promise from Clinton the whole time. The truth is that the industry is just not going to budge and they have all the money and power.

On a side note, at the pink last night they has a chalk board tht said, "Please vote, voter registration forms can be foudn at the bar, but the at symbol was an anarchy "A" with the circle. Is that not contradictory to voting.

Here weare at the concert, its crowded like no otherandthe bass is ravinescient. Even more than Pat Benetar was back when because the crowd is more multicultural. I miss partying, after programming it's my favorite p-ing verb. Here is (e:flacidness) being happy.

This is the first entry I have written using the new flash application. It should make evryone's life a lot easier. try publising one of your own journals from the example swf on the news journal [inlink]news,421[/inlink]. If you want you can even download the standalone application from that entry and start publishing journals really fast without even ever opening your browser.

I will be developing an entire applications interface for both mac and PC that will allow you to communicate, publish, read journals, check out the event calendar and do general epeep things. Right now though I have to go to Thursday in The Square with the epeeps who are getting angry at me for playing with my computer too much.

I hope you guys enjoy this.

Imade it back to my office today to deal with some paperwork and got a chance to test the site on a macintosh. Seeing as I haven't looked at the site on a macintosh since May, I am amazed that it all seemed to work out. I even tested the radio, the a/vprofiler and the video chat with success.
If anyone notices mac porblems ever, feel free to sendme an email.