I am putting htis hear for historical record. today it snowed. I released the snow on the site too. The snow is the infant state of a new interactive menu system to be released at some point in the future.

The snowflakes themselves are interatcive, white ones can be shoveled by clciking. Clicking a red one turns off the snowflakes till you restart your browser. The orange one produces haikus. The Green one turns on flake animation. It also pauses it. Think of the green one as the play button. They are randomly placed each time. If you have them animating and you begin to type a jorunal, they pause for your convenience. The blue question mark "flake" is a link to a web cam. Because they are made of ASCII text they are very low impact. They work on safari, IE for WIN, and firefox!!



>>Posted By: paul

1. AFTER JANUARY 1, 2005: YOUR LIBRARY WILL CLOSE!

---

1. AFTER JANUARY 1, 2005: YOUR LIBRARY WILL CLOSE!
Are you aware that all 52 libraries across Erie County will close their
doors after January 1st under Erie County's proposed 2005 operating
budget? This budget cuts support to the Buffalo and Erie County Public
Library by more than $19 million -- an 80% reduction in the System's
operating funds.
Please communicate your need for library service to your County
Legislator, State Senator and State Assemblyperson. For public official
contact information and a sample letter, visit
.
Keep checking the Library's website, www.buffalolib.org, for updates and
information on future advocacy efforts. Your support is greatly
appreciated!

>>Posted By: hotmama

Your journal now supports 8 and 24-bit PNGs even with alpha channels and even in Internet Explorer for Windows. This is a great way to have really nice transparency in your images.

That brings supported file types to include mp3, mid, wav, jpg, gif, png, swf.

>>Posted By: paul

For all you cell phone freaks and low bandwidth junkies, I added midi upload capability to the journals so you could uploads you great midi files. Check it out.

::DOWNLOAD MEDIA::

Here are some great midi links for your journal and your phone.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 11/05/04 02:08

These numbers are good but what is it was 50 and 80 instead. Do you all think we should really resort to paper flyers. It seems so anti-tech but it might be what it takes? Any other ideas to draw in new writers. Like I said before the readership keeps growing up but we would like to have more writers, and it would be nice to have a broader age spectrum. Right now we are mostly in our mid 20s to mid 30s. Maybe more teens and more adults? Any ideas?



If you are a reader only and are reading this, why not sign up for account today. It's free and you get a huge local audience. We are also looking for people to have their own radio shows. Anyone want to start a local recipes journal? What about a historical places in Buffalo journal, a Buffalo parks journal, sport and recreation journal, anything you can think of. Sign up today! If you have any questions feel free to IM me at "paulsidekick" or email me here .

Maybe I should make it a contest. The person to have the most people sign up and start writing a journal wins a prize. I'll work on that.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 11/04/04 14:02 >>Updated By: paul 11/04/04 14:03