Last night I went with (e:hodown), (e:lilho) and (e:terry) over to Left Bank for dinner. Unfortunately, (e:matthew) couldn't make it becaus ehe had to work. I felt bad because he has wanted to go there for so long.

Their food is seriously fancytastic but quite expensive. I would have to say it seemed worth it though. I don't know if I would have felt that way a year ago.

We started out with fried Calamari, fried Oysters, a salad and fried wanton combo and giant jumbo shrimp on top of artichoke bottoms.

For dinner (e:terry) had a giant ravioli cheese extravaganza, I had lamb stew with the softest yummiest lamb bits I have ever had, (e:hodown) had the most expensive thing on the menu: a really nice steak with jumbo shrimp on top, then covered in melted cheese. (e:lilho) had salmon.

I drank wine. The first cheaper wine actually tasted much better than the second round of more expensive wine.

I think it came to something like $150.00 plus a $45 tip. My phone battery was dead so i didn't get any photos, but I think hodown did. Unfortunately, she has one of those old fashioned non-digital cameras- so who knows if we will ever see those pics.

Before I left work I connected my laptop to the internet via a USB cord and my phone. I actually get 2.3mbps. I love my phone.

Then I came home form work and met with (e:kara) about public relations and changing some stuff on the site. Some of it is big changes, some of it is little changes. First of all I fixed the inlink system so that it is as easy as the regular elinks. Hopefully, this will make connecting journal entries much easier which I think is an important thing to make easy as it makes reading and understanding the flow of jorunals much easier. I encourage you peeps to always link between your own and other epeeps directentries e.g. (e:news,782) instead of just (e:paul) You
basically just add a comma in between the username and the specific entry and it makes follwong a conversation a lot easier for readers. I will retrofit all of your old inlinks this weekend.

So bye bye, inlink chains. I feel free-er already. Here is what (e:kara) and I discussed.

goals:
more committed users - what make some ~100 user sign up but not write. What makes people tired of writing?

strategies to achieve this goal:
ongoing viral marketing projects; incentive programs (contests for new users, mobile users); signage in college residence halls and college newspapers.

Newbie Guide focusing on "what to do when you get to the (e:strip)" - publishing and chatting, to start.

- additional sections: why you should draw; why you should use epad; uploading media; using links, file sharing with gather, testmonials?
Promote Bonus Features: remember buffalo; gather; documeet; media library; sounds and music.

For Paul:

updating each user's profile page to be more free sort of like a mini myspace; converting the newbie email to plaintext from HTML to avoid email system inconsistences; popup messages should appear on the page as they are posted, not after a page reload - live private messenging; add a musical note icon to the "sound on"; when "inlinking," change the code to be (e:paul,15); rewrite the categories using AJAX or pulling in the categories already used; make the "add a sketch" graphic say "(e:draw)" - something more explicit about drawing.

Explore options for partnerships with verizon, cingular, tmobile to promote mobile features.

Side Note:
I also "completed" my truly awesome web site maker today. Now you can include PHP or HTML/javascript snippets on a per page basis. So basically, it has the option to be parsed using estrip's textBling parser or to just use regular HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP markup. I may user part of the concept for the new profiles. I want some sort of drag and set layout for pictures music, text, etc.

This is as farewell as it gets. Here is the truck picking up all the Buffalo Current boxes last night.

I wonder if I could get three of those. Does anyone know the people behind the Buffalo Current.

Preview of a game I am working on, it loads new userpics each time.

::Download Flash SWF::

I am making a website for this older gentleman using my new CMS system. I love being able to quickly get something up with little effort, it gives me more opportunity to concentrate of the design. He typed all these poems on an old fashioend typewriter and is about 80 years old. He would like his work to be published to the web. I think it is pretty cool that it will have the photograph of the typed copy next to the html text of each poem.

I will post the link when it is done. The poetry is about the stages of life and is entitled, "The Ages of Woman and Man"



While I was at it, I created a typerwiter key maker, so I am going to do an estrip theme based on typewriters. It will be the first black theme.