There were so many people at the pride festival at Bidwell park. There were quite a few more people than last year, with a much bigger area. The festival was almost twice as big as last year.

You can see more information about the festival at these sites. Unfortunately, we forgot the video camera this year.

Outcome Buffalo:

Pride Buffalo:

Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello announced today that plans are underway to return vehicular traffic to Main Street by 2007.Quoted from: 2 On Your Side - News

Who would have thought. It is so sad that vehicales have to return to that street and that it couldn't be developed otherwise.

One of the protesters just announced on his megaphone that he will kill us all and bury us in dirt graves and then we can deal with jesus. His sign says, " Jesus Said, repent or else Revelation 2:16"

Don't forget about the pride parade parade tomorrow. It stars at one and goes from Kleinhans to bidwell park via elmwood. There is a giant party with speakers and performers at Bidwell following the parade. Here is alink to search from last years pride [search]pride[/search]. You can also view videos from last years pride in the video section above. If anyone wants to help do intrviews tomorrow, we would be all about it. It is so hard without (e:jill) . She is in edinborough now.

• just fixed the search link --SR

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: shawnr 06/05/05 11:40 >>Updated By: paul 06/05/05 12:25

So (e:shawnr) asked me last night if the server could deal with lots of visitors from far away if he put a link to his journal on other sites. I thought it would be ok. Well on boing boing, there were apparently too many visitors. I think it is because boingboing is a news syndication hub and the links were flying in from everywhere. I guess it is time to start caching because thousands of vistors per hour, is too much for the mni VPS.

Unfortunetaly, (e:shawnr) is gone now, and the only way to deal with this was to shut down elmwoodstrip.com altogether. It currenlty redirects to google's homepage. I don't know how else to deal with it because th referer links are all over the place. From a million rss feeds. I tried rewriting from the htaccess file when the users looked up shawnr only and it worked at first but soon enough, people started removing the u=shawnr from the end of the url and it got killed again. Eventually, I had to just redirect all elmwoodstrip.com info away from the site.

Someday, I would like to test the site out on a really robust server. For now just visit elwmoodstrip.org.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 06/04/05 13:45