Here is a rundown for some of the (e:strip) v1.5 updates. Its not a huge change from v1.4 to v1.5 but there are some great improvements.

1. The (e:strip) logo at the top of the banne ris a link back to the elmwood journal/home page.

2. There is a new "QuickUpdate" button on the journals directly under the user's pictures. By clicking on it you bring up a pop up box which allows you to quickly add a journal entry wihtout having to access the more ocmplicated update page.

3. The traditional update page still accessed by the write button at the top, has had many upgrades. You now can update and delelte multiple journals at a time. This saves lots of time. I have also mmoved the uploaded images library to a separate window in order to speed up load time when doing text-only updates.

So I finally got the web server up and going. Believe it or not Verizon blocks port 80. That is so ridiculous. I think that it is basically, another step in the surpression of free speech. There are probably so many people that try and start a web server and then get frustrated when it doesn't work from the outside. They probably just quit at that point. I have to admit it took me a while to figure it out and I have been using apache for a long time. Everything was working on other ports. Then I switched ports, it works now. There is nothing there yet but soon there will be all kinds of mobile content, i hope. I bought a sidekick and I plan on making web sevices for it. We will see how it goes.

Here is a to the Richard Stallman MP3 about the development of the GNU/Linux and opensource movements.

Where has paul been lately, what's going on? I have been searching for a cell phone. I have never wanted one before but now as they are getting more powerful I would like to start developing applications for them. In order to do that I would like to have a real one to test on.

Unfortunately, no service would offer me a no voice service but unlimited internet service. At first T-mobile agreed but then the manager said no. Which sucks. I really want to have wireless internet access via a bluetooth cell phone. Believe it or not, verizon does not offer bluetooth cell phones. Their phones seem to be really behind the times.

And T-mobile has the phones I want but not the service I am looking for. Basically, it means that you will not see cell phone features for (e:strip) yet. I was really hoping to allow people to update and read their journals via cellphones. But although, I have an emulator I could use for development, I will not be very motivated till I have a phone.

I seriously, cannot afford a phone for $39.00 a month, whn I know I would only make like 4 phone calls with it per month.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I am really busy with my final projects so I have no idea how much celebrating I will get in over thi sbreak, but my mother invited us over for Thanksgiving and i please contact me and I will try to get it worked out. It will definately be a tasty meal.

If you having any problems with the site, please email me - version 1.5 will be coming out sometime in mid december iwth lots of improvements.