In order to bring people together I had integrated AIM with the site. In order to use the features, you need to have AIM installed on your computer.

For those of you that do not know. AIM is a free chat program made by aol. It allows you to chat in room, person 2 person, exchange files, and now even play online games together.

In order to have your AIM online status show up on your journal, simply log in and click on the AIM icon in your control panel found in the same spot as the login box, but after you log in. Just type your AIM userName into the form that comes up and you are set to go.

Now, when you are logged into AIM, other signed in users will see



under your userPic. Remember, this is only visable to othe rlogge din members. Non-memeber visitors of the site will not see anything. If you are not logged in to AIM, you will also see nothing under your userPic.

Also, if you go to the who page you will now see links for audio chat, the php chat, and the AIM chat room. The AIM chat room will take you to a chat room that is pre-set up for estrip.

Hopefully, this will work to keep you all in touch with each other, even when on mobile devices.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul >>Updated By: paul

When logged in to your journal you will now see a new icon at the bottom of each journal entrie. The icon is an eye. Clicking on this open eye will shut it and hide the journal entry from anyone accept you. This is a great way to store a draft until you are ready to publish it.

>>Posted By: paul

Here we have a troup of child actors sword fighting. It goblins vs knights . . . but the knights havn't drank water in 3 days . . .

Here we are at the artvoice festival. It's pretty rockin' but slightly more commercial than I remembered it being. It might just be that I fogot about all the vendors.



Here is (e:terry) in the crowd and the painting wall. The painting wall is some sort of collaborative art experience where participants each paint one square of the larger canvas. You can then purchase you square. We have one hanging at the 567 that (e:matthew) painted at the Hallwalls festival at the peer a couple years back.



>>Posted By: paul

A student once told me (when I was a TA), that misspellings and general English mayhem were an artform, a way for him to express himself.. ;-)

>>Posted By: ajay