(e:lilho) ,I am requesting you wear a feather headdress like this to my birthday party.

I miss flagstaff a lot. I wish I could get a job there. To bad the university doesn't have a digital media arts program. Maybe I could get into communications. I decided to paint a picture of it. This is my first painting so it's nto very good but it was fun trying.



Someday I am going to relocate to flagstaff, preferably before AZ runs out of water. Does anyone knwo anybody there. I would like to launch a journal site in Flagstaff but all the people I knwo who would be interested are gone.

I can't stop working on this site. I think it is bordering on insanity but somehow I am addicted to this project. I wish it would just bring me cash somehow, so I could turn it into a job and somehow legitimize my addiction to its creation.

Check out the help files if you get a chance. It is all still under construction but works pretty well for now.

I took the day off from life in order to recode old parts of the site to be more liek the new code I write. Well actually, I just ike redoing stuff a year or two later because it is always so much fun to see how much better you get at it.

Each time I revisit old stuff, I say, oh man, why did you do it that way, but redoing is really fun and about a thousand times easier than when I was first learning several years ago.

The help files should be up in no time. i had to rewrite the classes for the stylebox and the media upload to work for it, but soon it will be totally done.

There is still one spot under my name on google that is not me (GOOGLE - "paul visco") . I need to overtake it so I can own my own google page.

Tomorrow I have to go see Nonna again. I have gone the last three days but tomorrow no one els ewill be there. My dad and brother got sick and my mother has to work. I hope that Nonna remembers to speak english tomorrow. I told her she has to practice tonight.

While I was there today she kept saying "duo gatto" and i wasn't sure what she meant and then I rememebered that (e:lilho) IMed (e:mike) the other day that (e:twisted) had brought two cats to buffalo with her in her suitcase. It was just a a joke but lots of people were over and (e:lilho) forgot to tell (e:mike) it was just a joke. he told my mother, who told nonna at the hospital who was then asking me about the "duo gatto" (two cats) in italian. It's funny how that got around. Everyone was laughing cause they all know my feeelings about cats.

Wow, there are other free things [inlink]paul,2557[/inlink] with vonage. Free 3 way calls, free *67 caller blocking, free *69 callback, free voicemail, free call-forwarding, and free "they call you back when the line you ar trying to reach is no longer busy."

(e:twisted) 's plane takes off in a little bit. It was fun to have her visit, I wish that the weather was better so that we could have seen all the fun pretty things that come out with the sun. I guess she probably gets enough of that in CA.

We decided to go with a broadband phoneline. It is so much cheaper than verizon landline. We pay $14.99 /month for 500 minutes of outgoing calls. Iincomming is free. With those 500 calls it doesn't matter where they are in the US and I saw international rates as low as 3 cents a minute to tokyo. To top it off we get email notifcation of message, caller ID, we were able to transfer our number, and a few other bonuses I can't remember.

The quality seems pretty good. My one problem so far is that you only have one jack on the router, which is not very convenient. Luckily, we have a cordless phone so all is good. Either way at $14.99 per month we are saving a ton and we got one month free with a coupon I found on the internet.

(e:twisted) arrived last night. We sucessfully found her at the airport and spent the evening with some of the other peeps at the 444. (e:soyeon) 's posters arrived from (e:scud) 's print shop. There look really nice and are very glossy. I will hang them around town as soon as I get a chance, maybe even hang some up tonight.

I am super alergic to life right now. Something in the house makes me mega alergic and seeing as I am just about only allergic to cats, I assume it is cats. The landlord asked the front neighborsd if they have a cat and they said no. So somehow cat iis in my life. It could be the cat hair covered couch from amvets that we washed or the the two pet soaked rugs that our landlord gave us, both of which we have now steam cleaned.

I wish it would just end. I am going to go to the doctors today and get an inhaler.

Here is (e:lilho) on the neo-drexel.

I found this article on google news about blogging trends. It seems that a lot more people are paying attention to blogs but one statistic that really intrigues and bothers me is this.

Though blog readership jumped, the percentage of online Americans who write blogs grew only slightly, to 7 percent in November, up from 5 percent early in the year. Blog creators tend to be male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years.

Why don't more people write blogs? It's not like the technology of a blog is so super complicated. If you can write email or type a note, you can publish a blog.

I mean programming one is slightly difficult but writing one is so easy and there are hundreds of choices of publication software, many of which are free. Take our site for example. Why is does the readership keep increasing but the number of writers slowly plateau? I really want to understand what element is missing that makes the others readers want to write.

I mean we finally have a publication medium that has a minimal hinderances from thought to audience and yet people arn't flocking to it like I expected. It makes me wonder sometimes if the rich and powerful have done such a good job convincing us that our opinions and lives are so insignificant or if people are just shy?

Do you think that most people compare their lives to people on televsion and just assume they arn't as glamorous, or that people think they have nothing important to say. Or has television just put people in the consume mode where entertainment is purely a mono-directional, non-interactive activity. It's free afterall!! What is it?

I think entertainment used to involve more effort. And effort is usually rewarding. Like games for example. games are entertaining but involve a little work. Same with storytelling, journal writing, crafts, and art making. Television seems to be so one directional. Same with listening to music. It is purely about consuming with no real effort. Unless you are a video artist like (e:robin) and (e:soyeon) or a music like the (e:northparkproje)ct dudes.

I would feel like such a loser if I just read the site all the time without contributing. It is kind of like spying on your neighbors through the window and admiring their lives. Which reminds me of a song that (e:twisted) sent me. P.S. I am so excited about her arriving tomorrow.

EDIE BRICKELL - Green

We like to spy on the neighbors.
They look so happy together.
Funny the power of strangers.
Sometimes I wonder if they got it better.
Green. Have you seen green?
Check out the view from the rooftop.
They've got a horse and a big trampoline.
Running and jumping till they drop.
Down on the ground and they're rolling around in... green.
Have you seen green?
Have you seen green grass?
So green... grass.
So green.
I'd like to be like that.
I'd like to be like that.
I'd like to be moving on a lawn... so green.
I want to laugh the way they laugh.
See all my blues get back up in the sky.
If only we had what they had.
We'd never worry and we'd never cry for... green.
Have you seen green?
Have you seen grass?
So green... grass.
So green.
I'd like to be like that.
I'd like to be like that.
I'd like to be moving on a lawn... so green.