As suggested, I moved all the embed video and audio media to links that you can open by clicking on the corresponding audio or video link icon.

This will avoid problems with linux when playing the files and also make the page load faster on slower connections. On the the media player page that opens you can either play the embeded media or download the link to play in another program. Here are some example media files from both parties.

For both type sof media I would siggest using quicktime or realplayer. There should be some help files on setting up quicktime to play 3gp and amr by default.

These audio files are from in the "tent" the other night. The first one is mobile amr format the other is mp3.

::DOWNLOAD MEDIA::

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

This mobile 3gp format video is a gruesome video of (e:lilho) beating the crap out of the pinata at (e:ladycroft)'s birthday party.

::DOWNLOAD MEDIA::

It is my please to announce that (e:uncutsaniflush) has been officially promoted to help admin status. He can begin updating and editing help as soon as he wants. Congratulations and thanks for volunteering. I totally updated the help admin system so it should be super user friendly now.

Sorry about the inconvenience. The hosting facility had a problem that required them to reboot the (e:strip) server, it was out of my hands. We had about 4 hours of down time this morning. That was out first outage in almost a year. I hope that it stays all good, or I will have to move the site yet again.

Paul,

We are looking into this and will get back to you.

Thanks
Tina
MonsterHosting.ca Support

Today, I received some local unsolicited political email on the site from     patrickrantz@yahoo.com . I have not investigated it, but it was sent to me via the email link under my userpic. It was telling me not to vote for Byron Brown and while it does make an interesting read, I wanted to make it clear that if anyone else received one of these letters, they are not "official" (e:strip) emails.
--paul

[size=m]Artvoice Best of Buffalo Party[/size]
On another note, who wants to go to the Artvoice Party on Monday from 6-9 to see if we won the best blog in Buffalo contest. I really hope we do, somehow it would justify a lot of the hard work, even though the real satisfaction is in seeing how much you guys all publish and visit the site. Here's to 11,000 entries which is just aorund the corner.

[size=m]Mini Update[/size]
I fixed the publish box bug. It should now stay open as long as its not empty, including when you return the page from uplaoding a media file.

Sorry about the delay, it was only a one line change but I was so freakin' busy.