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11/26/2005 03:42 #32363

Google Ads
Category: commercialism
--update I removed them - time to go chill out

I decided to try out google ads on recommendation from (e:shawnr). He uses them for his site at

Personally, I hate the flamming comericalism of it and I think it does a really bad job targeting the ads. It is easy on his site because it is all about games and gaming systems, but on our it is really diverse and it doesn't seems smart enough yet. But seeing as he makes enought to pay for his hosting, I figure why not try it.

What is the point of targetted ads when you have targeted ads that are fake. Like this one from (e:leetee)'s journal where it choose cranberry sauce because of some mention of thansgiving.

Buit notice the ad is for ebay. Who the fuck buys cranberry sauce on ebay? Nobody - that is such a lame, fake ad. Why bother with targeted key word ads when they are just blantant ads for other things. Hoenstly, I would rather just see a glossy ad for ebay than a fake one for cranberry sauce on ebay.

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Peeps that log in do not see them and as it is free to log in I see no point in feeling to guilty. I might just get rid of them either way, but seeing as not one signle person has donated in over 4 months - I am really sick of paying for it all myself. Although, I love the project and promise it will not go away ever - i just need to figure out some other means of support.

Soon enough we will be moving to the artvoice space. The server is all set up now, I am just waiting for the new mac ton arrive to replace it before I move it. I also cannot screw it all together right now becaus eit is in the tortoise room and its too cold for Basra when I open the closet that the server lives inside of.

If it picks out a few more god things then it's gone.
uncutsaniflush - 11/26/05 20:12
Damn! That'll learn me (as they might say in the south) not read Estrip on a daily basis.

I missed the google ad for buying cranberry sauce on eBay!!

The mind boggles.

11/26/2005 19:00 #32362

Busy Day
Category: estrip
I spent the day making the XHTML mobile version of the site pretty functional. It's not pretty yet but it is definately working. You can search, write in your epad, chat, read your messages, read the latest entries, and publish all from your mobile XHTML handset. The wap version of the site can do most of the same things on an older phone.

11/25/2005 21:42 #32361

Some pictures from back in the day
Category: oldtimes
My stupid phone does not save pics right anymore, so I am reduced to screen captures from the phone, lame.

Jessica Ho (e:hodown) - Yearbook Quote: Some people think happiness is friends and love. I just want power and money.

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Paul Visco - Yearbook Quote: To flash to the Real Intraworld Push: hard to the other side.

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My mother has turned my old room into a craft/storage extravaganza.
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hodown - 11/25/05 07:57
Dude I am going to kill you for posting my yearbook picture.

11/23/2005 13:42 #32360

Buffalo Transportation
Category: transportation
(e:lilho), who is missing all of her ID,etc and probably won't even be able to board the plane called to ask for a ride to the airport at 4am - the morning of thanksgiving. I would give her one but we don't have a car since (e:terry) had the accident yesterday which he hasn't mentioned yet. I will leave the details up to him but it's fair to say we a minus one tire but have one complete (e:terry) who now has to take the bus to work out in cheektowaga.

(e:terry) is lucky that there is a bus because otherwise he would be really stuck with his work being so fara way. (e:lilho) on the other hand is not so lucky. I cannot believe there is no public transportation to the airport during all flight hours. The first bus goes at 6:18am which is late. When I tried to plan the trip using the NFTA public transport planner it gave me the following response. I think it meant the not only the trip to the airport but the broader trip to NYC.

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twisted - 11/23/05 19:44
OMfG!!! What happened?
alison - 11/23/05 17:22
hey are you guys going out tonight?

11/23/2005 01:31 #32359

Rave History
Category: music
I was thinking about some memories for the rememberbuffalo beta site when I found this info on the bigorbit gallery site.

The interviewer is asking Xotec about the scene before him. Does anyone else remember those parties at the Ellen Terry Theatre. Those raves were so crazy. maybe it was just my first time being messed up but it changed my life for a lot of years. That theatre was like Showplace but cooler. Unfortunately, like showplace it has the nasty slanted floor. That made dancing way more dangerous.

(e:hodown) remember the stilt people? Who is Toni Billoni, the name sounds so familiar?

XOTEC: Non existent! (Other than two events Toni Billoni did in the early 1990s). Before I met the rest of the Tribe I was heavily involved in producing the first series of raves in the WNY area, at the old Ellen Terry Theatre on Grant and Potomac [now torn down], the Masten St Armory, the infamous TCI building [also torn down], etc. Anyway, it was at the first party at the Ellen Terry that I met Marcos, Christ and God and this whole sick twisted ride began, from hooking up at my first raves to playing together Friday nights at Asbury Alley [now Route 66, but historically quite seminal in terms of the development of WNY's underground electronic dance music roots]. We actually began throwing events as a collective in May a party in the basement of the Lafayette Hotel. Talk about underground! From then on we worked together to bring WNY some of the most twisted, unique events around.

Quoted from: SOUNDLAB | Dedicated to the Music, Media & Performance of Big Orbit Gallery


zobar - 05/18/06 07:55
off beat cinema :::link:::

- Z
xotec - 05/18/06 02:31
Tony Billoni was the original creator and curator of the Annual Artist and Models Affair...going back to the mid 80's - he passed it on to Hallwalls in the 90's for a fundraising event.

He is / as also on channel 7 late night on Saturdays...what's the name of that movie show? Can't remember right now...