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I found where I probably came from Visco, Italy Unfortuntely, that little town also had a concentration camp. That is how I found out about it.

On another note I found this thing I wrote for Trebor's class two years ago

I am a second year MFA student whose primary interests are 3D modeling and Digital Online Communities. I teach Digital Media Arts at Canisius College in Buffalo. Originally, I was studying to be a German instructor when I got addicted to computers on the streets of Thueringen. I tried several kinds of virtual "rehab" from but decided to just submit to my addiction and teach computer graphic arts instead of German, satisfying both my addiction and my love for teaching. I am especially interested in the economies of digital communities, the move away from video toward avatars in online space and the social implications of digital communication.

You can find other people you might know on that page

For the first year of the site we had two horrible web hosting companies in a row (whn and globat) till we found mosnterhosting.ca, which has been pretty reliable. Today I got an email fromt he old host globat saying for a $29.00 upgrade fee I could get 10GB space/and 300GB/transfer which sounds like a good deal but I remember they had the worst customer service and tons of problems.

I decided to look up a current review on the web and found this I guess they haven't changed at all.

I think I have made the best posting to Craig's List so far. I would really like to get some more mobile users on the site, so I can start rolling out the mobile social networking pack. Hopefully this gets something started.



My thesis is finally many pages long, somewhere near 40. I didn't realize that we were supposed to double space. I think it just may be all done in time. On another note, my job situation seemed to get all crazy when one of my bosses pointed out he understood my contract differntly than me. I think it is just a misunderstanding, but we have to wait for the other supervisor to arrive back on the scene in order to rectify the situation. I hope this turns ok, because otherwise I am seriously thinking I will be heading out west in about 15 days.

My advice is don't ever trust anything that involves employment. Never believ in anything that is orally spoken. Everything must be in writing in order to verify it's existence. You must always go over things 1000 times in order to make sure that it is all safe and sound. Otherwise you get taken advantage of, and having that happen is not fun. I can't wait till @jesse comes home, it can't be long now.

I was look at another mobile blogging site called textamerica.com and I found this picture which reminded that I missed jacob. I wonder what he is doing now.



@shawnr said that textamerica.com is evil and that they sell their members media to other people. I believe him. Just check out this line from their privacy policy.

Textamerica may share with its affiliates any information provided by you on this website, including your name, e-mail address, usage patterns, credit card account information, and uploaded images and text. from textamerica privacy policy

The Discovery crew have reported seeing widespread environmental destruction on Earth.

They warned that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.Quoted from: No second repair job for Discovery

After I saw @joshua's to buffaloflickr I wrote to Buffaloflickr to see if they would be interested in moving their blog over to elmwoodstrip.org. I think that our site missions are very similar and it would be great to have someone collecting image sof buffalo on the site. I figure we could move their archives over.

I sent them this email:

Hey,
I saw your buffaloflickr blog online and wanted to see if you would be interested in hosting it at elmwoodstrip.org instead of blogger, as our missions of talking about and showing buffalo are very similar. I don't know if you have seen elmwoodstrip.org, but we are a free buffalo based blogging community that has been around for about 3 years now.

We could easily port your previous content to elmwoodstrip.org.

Here is a quote from their mission statement, seems like a good fit.

I'll be trolling Flickr.com on daily basis looking for pics - people, places and things - tagged with something to do with Buffalo, NY. Got something you think I should know about, it's a blog so you know what to do.

The idea of course is to gather a growing collection of pics and images that represent something about who we are and what we think is important. Feel free to comment below on any of the pics if you think something needs a heads-up, a little clarification or just a few thoughts of your own.

Flickr.com is free and so easy to use. Occasionally, I'll share a post about how other people in far off places and close to home are using Flickr.com to share, connect and build bridges of understanding between people all over the world. Amazing stuff, really.Quoted from: Buffalo Flickr: About This Blog

I found this crazy site with lots of drunken polish people while searching for pictures of capibara . Google made the connection. A lot of them are funny, some of them are sick

Has anyone seen google directories before, I somehow had missed them completely.



This totally revolutionizes the way you surf the web.

I am hopelessly working on a jpeg fixing filter for some corrupt jpegs from a cell phone. WHile I was poking around at the structure of a jpeg file I found this windows command-line program that strips out meta-data from jpegs. I ran it on a photoshop saved jpeg and it took 10k off the image. Thats a lot of extraneous data.

Here are some important magic numbers for file types

So I was searching the buffalo bills fan club site when I noticed they had a radio link. I decided to check it out and found that they also have some web cams in there. But can you believe this, they have a web cam for the Anderson County Jail. That seems really unethical to me that the jail is allowed to broadcast these images publically. and if I was one of the police in the cam it would bother me just as much. You will need windows media player to view it. Unfortunately, windows won't let me make a screen capture of it. Maybe someone else can?

Wow, I feel like a loser now. Google earth is pretty much my dream application. As I mentioned about a year ago [inlink]paul,952[/inlink], I used to love keyhole's earth browser software that google bought. I thought, oh google is just going to buy it and re brand it, but it seems that they majorly improved upon it by adding a connection to their search engine. It makes gogole maps seems pathetic.

You will need a pretty modern computer to get it running but once you do you will need a whole day to explore the world from Buffalo to Tokyo. You can fly from everywhere to everywhere and find tons of added user data, map data, driving directions, food search, topography, satellite images and best of terrain and build structures. Even buffalo's buildings are completely 3d modeled.

Here is where the taste of Buffalo will be tomorrow. I will definately be there but someone else is going to have to send cell phone pics because mine are still in quarantine.



You can even leave way points on the map and with the google plus version you can add polygons, use your gps, and do much more. Now I want it.

Just before vacation this came out and I couldn't play with it becausee they had stopped the download for some reason. Now it is back up and free as ever.