"When You Are Going To San Francisco" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: travel

10/30/06 09:44 - 49ºF - ID#32798

When You Are Going To San Francisco

I am at the airport waiting to fly off the San Francisco. Believe itor not I only brought one school sized backback, wired magazine, and a book on java. Notice the stark lack of computer in there. It seems like everyone else has a laptop.

I guess I didn't want to subject the vaio to risk of loss or damage and I definitely do not want to play on the computer while I am there. I figure, if I don't have it at the conference I will be focred to pay attention (to my phone, lol) No just kidding I am excited about the conference and am curious If I can really make it a week without programming.

I suppose having the phone is kind of like cheating since in essence it is a mini laptop and fully networked. Maybe I will just ssh in and play on the server while I am sitting here. Oka, no I instead will read the java book.

I am kind of sad that I am leaving. I really don't like leaving my house very much anymore. Maybe I picked that up from (e:matthew) as I used to travel wuite a bit.

Oh wait, I know what happed, it was the freakin terrorists. In my book they won because I am terrified of flying now. I would be much more excited about a train trip to California but I suppose all my days would be on the train.

See you soon (e:twisted) and (e:iriesara)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

10/27/06 03:44 - 45ºF - ID#32797

IE 7 is ruining my life

It is virtually impossible to deal with microsoft products. It is so ridiculous that IE 7 gets rid of IE 6. IN order to switch back and forth you either have to run a virtual machine, hack your registry all crazy or keep installing and uninstalling IE 6/7.

It seems so crazy that 80% of people supposedly have IE 6 but I can no longer test in IE 6 because I have IE 7. But I have to start testing in IE 7 because we all know that nothing will play well with it.

Once I decide to go IE 7 with estrip there will be no more support for IE 6 because I have no way of testing it unless someone wants to donate an IE 6 machine to me.

They didn't fix the security bug where I can read peoples clipboards

. I even wrote to microsoft about it as did many others. It basically is disabled in IE 7 out of the box but if you upgrade from 6 it is still there. And how many people will upgrade from 6 and not have this fixed. Just about everyone.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself

Major IE 7 & and PHP Served from IIS 6 Incompatibility.

I had the most horrible day with IE 7. I really feel like microsoft just likes to see me waste my time. I should write them a letter about how I had to take a break from curing cancer to deal with defects in their browser.

Turns out that IE 7 cannot handle pages with the wrong Content-Length very well. If the content-length header exceeds the real content-length it gets especially messed up.

This is fucking insane. I discovered that session enabled PHP pages served with windows server IIS 6 to IE 7 do not refresh properly when there is javascript in the head of the document. They show up fine on first load but then show up blank intermittently on refresh. Here is the full overview with examples

When serving PHP from Apache I did not have this problem because apache always seems to report the correct Content-Length with the script.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: holiday

10/28/06 01:33 - 40ºF - ID#32796

Holly's Birthday and Phone Swimmer

We went to La Marina for (e:holly)'s birthday party last night. I cannot find a web site for them but here is their artvoice page

(MAP TO: 1503%20HERTEL%20AVENUE)

The food was really fabulous but it is quite expensive. The bill came to around $360 for 6 people. I mean we went all out, I think you could eat a lot cheaper there. We had fancy wine, appetizers, and entrees plus drinks. (e:holly) had crab cakes with lobster tail, I have to say it looked absolutely delicious. I had linguine with clam sauce and fried calamaris.

My phone decided to jump out of my pocket last night on Hertel Avenue as I ran down the street in the rain. My shoe had come untied and it was raining, so after I got it tied I ran to catch up with everyone else.

The phone sat in a puddle completely covered for a few seconds before I realized. Luckily, the battery had flown out when it hit the ground so there were no short circuits. I let the waterlogged phone dry out in my bone dry gas heated house and today it work fine. Unfortunately, I lost my last stylus.

I was really quite nervous. because although I have insurance on the phone, I am leaving for San Francisco on Monday and there is no way I would be able to get a replacement before then.

The thought of having no phone in a 'foreign, place freaked me the hell out. How did I live before the phone? How did anyone meet up or get anything done. How did I even manage to grocery shop without access to google.

One of the servers at work got hacked the other day. Who hacks a cancer treatment center?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: hardware

10/29/06 10:00 - 42ºF - ID#32795

A new Camera

I bought this camcorder today. I am totally dissatisfied with the propriety nature of the video codec. It is like a DIVX movie but is some propriety samsung SEDG format. In order to use it I need to open the file with a hex edited, change instances of SEDG to DIVX and then run it through ffmpeg to turn it into flash video. Needless to say, it suffers along the way a bit which makes me question its usefulness. The camera itself rocks. It is so fast and responsive, it is tiny, has an external lense for head mounted recording and is an MP3 player, voice recorder, and and video cam. Too bad it's so proprietary. I really think that kind of crap needs to just end. I will probably return it.

It really ends up being no better than my cell phone.

::Download Flash Video::

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: gay

10/25/06 09:00 - 44ºF - ID#32794

Gay Marriage Legal In New Jersey

Gay couples can marry in New Jersey now. Why is it so impossible to have it happen in New York.

But it's possible that lawmakers will designate civil unions, not marriage, as the route to provide such rights. They have 180 days to respond.

I guess it will probably never benefit me anyways but I really think that anyone should have the right to marriage or civil union or whatever so that they have the same benfits as a married couple.

I mean in general, doesn't society want to encourage monogamy, even if it is gay. It seems better than lots of single gay people being promiscuous.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: downtown

10/25/06 07:17 - 45ºF - ID#32793

Buffalo Sky Scraper

Wow, who would have thought that buffalo would get a 1.2 million square foot business tower right on Niagara Square and Elmwood. I like the fact that the guy who is planning this new development is also committed investing $80 million in redeveloping the Statler Towers.

According to the news, the idea is to attract big businesses who have office in Toronto or New York to the lower operating costs in Buffalo.

Acording to the Buffalo News.

At 600 feet tall, the $361 million, ultra-contemporary glass and steel office, hotel and condo tower would eclipse the HSBC Center in height by 33 feet and would rank among the tallest buildings between New York City and Chicago... At $361 million, the mixed-use tower surpasses the price tag of all other downtown buildings. By comparison, the HSBC Center, built in 1972, sold last year for $85 million and currently is back on the market at $121 million.

Are they saying that HSBC doesn't own it's own tower? I had no idea. Maybe we should buy it, lol?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

10/25/06 12:07 - 40ºF - ID#32792

Crazy Sugar Gliders

The sugar gliders have had sex for about an hour now. Matt and terry had to pull them apart because she looked like she was done and he didn't want to stop. They really got crazy into it and were shaking and stuff. He did this weird thing where he held onto her and licked and prodded her spinal cord with his nose. She seemed to be really enjoying it until he started biting and hitting her when she tried to move away. Now they are fighting a lot and screaming. I know it is hard to imagine but it sounds like gremlins. It is so different than the mice we used to have that would have sex for about 30 seconds and then be done.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

10/23/06 09:32 - 39ºF - ID#32791

estrippers

Well this is really about stripping. First of all estrip.com

is launching an amateur strip site in early November which is annoying but kind of funny. It is annoying because we spent years building up our reputation and image and now some idiots are going to get the two sites confused. It is one of those situations where we will always have to say no, not the strip site. Eventually this site will just become part of portablefriends.com and none of it will matter.

Hi All,
Just thought I would give you a heads up to some news...

A new large webcam strip site is about to launch in early November called .

I know for a fact they are currently recruiting models to perform on the site (the only requirement is to own a webcam, and be over 18). I also happen to know that they are paying out a whopping 50% comission to all new strippers, which is more than most sites.

Anyway, their email is performers@estrip.com if any of you are interested and want to make some easy money from home.

Regards,

Jason

We are technically elmwoodstrip.org anyways. I had tried to buy the domain name for years but it was always so expensive. The last person that owned it offered it to me for 1000 GBP but I was poor at the time (e:news,809)

On another note, (e:terry) actually entered into an amateur strip contest the other night and although (e:theecarey), (e:matthew) and I plus a few of our friends screamed and hooted louder than anyone he did not win. I think it was rigged.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

10/23/06 04:51 - 42ºF - ID#32790

The American Dream

Maybe I am actually living the american dream minus the kids and white picket fence. I was so poor before. Now I am eligable for social security insurance according to the government, although I have my doubts about it being there when I retire. The letter came with a handy list of how much I have paid into the system. Or at least how much income was taxed.

(e:hodown) - remember 1995. I think that explains a lot about the amount of money I had. I am quite surprised because I was actually working that whole year. So it makes me wonder if someone didn't actually report my taxes. Maybe I was working under the table?

I went to go buy a book on Ajax design patterns and javascript at the bookstore but realized tehre is nothing left to know really. I deliberately make choices to do things the way I do, I recognize all the possibilities and I am sure that I have thoroughly covered the issue.

There are so many books on blogging at the bookstore now. What exactly is a whole book about blogging even about. It seems like a person would be better off reading other blogs to get an idea about blogging rather than a book about blogging. I am sure there is even an idiots guide to blogging.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: health

10/23/06 01:10 - 41ºF - ID#32789

Being Sick

I am still sick today. I cannot believe it. I tried for once to not use echinacea. Usually my cold only last like 3 days. Well this time it is going on 7 days. Next time I am sure to use it.

I am so sick of having my throat hurt and coughing. I just hope that my sinuses are better by the time I go to get on the plane for San Francisco on Monday. One time I flew with stuffed sinuses and I distinctly remember thinking my eyes were going to pop of out of my face. I was so extremely painful and I actually remember holding my eye into my face because of the pressure. It was the first time I flew on a plane to south carolina in 1995.