Now that i have discovered all these journals from elementary school I can't think of a better place to put them than here. The thing is they were written in 1985.
I am debating how to handle this situation. The purist in my wants a system where they can be entered in for the appropriate dates back in 1985. Another part of me wants to write journals today, as I found the old ones now, and talk about it that way as part of my current existence.
It is such a hard decision. Does anyone else have old journals they want to migrate over?
--paul
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05/15/2007 19:19 #39293
Backdated JournalsCategory: estrip
05/14/2007 23:28 #39280
Bug FixCategory: bug fix
05/09/2007 20:20 #39215
Fairy and the Terms of ServiceCategory: estrip
Paul
Well posted 1 blog so far, seems you group is rather unfriendly.
What you cannot promote yourself?
Two unkind remarks already, maybe your group is not worth hanging around.
(e:fairyastara) ,
Sorry that you feel that way but maybe you should have checked the terms of service agreement before posting your first journal (e:fairyastara,39209) about a commercial service.
Let me demonstrate what you would have seen if your read it:
Conduct
By becoming an (e:peep) you agree to not create and/or display (e:content) that:
1. is for commercial purposes, including but not limited to the sale of merchandise ...
Paul
I refuse to let people sell shit on the commercial free web space I worked so hard to shield from commercial influence. I myself spent thousands of hours working on this and have made no money from it. If you want to go ahead and talk about your life and spiritual beliefs people would take it a lot different than when you start out trying to sell something.
Just imagine it like this. A group of people in a club meet at Delaware park to talk about their lives, etc and someone they don't know comes up and says, "hey I sell crystal balls if you are interested." What do you think their reaction would be?
jacob - 05/17/07 06:46
I appreciate the clarification. It's nice to see this really is a community. A fact demonstrated by this very discussion. Cheers!
I appreciate the clarification. It's nice to see this really is a community. A fact demonstrated by this very discussion. Cheers!
paul - 05/16/07 00:26
Not to mention that, by enforce, I did not delete the journal or even request she take it down. I just explained that it was against the terms of service agreement.
Not to mention that, by enforce, I did not delete the journal or even request she take it down. I just explained that it was against the terms of service agreement.
paul - 05/16/07 00:26
I think (e:jenks) explained it very well. I do however, selectively enforce this when I feel it is taken to far, or when it is new people who have little vested interest in the community. Like I let (e:imk2) talk about selling her pots, because that was not what her journal is about, just a facet of it.
I think (e:jenks) explained it very well. I do however, selectively enforce this when I feel it is taken to far, or when it is new people who have little vested interest in the community. Like I let (e:imk2) talk about selling her pots, because that was not what her journal is about, just a facet of it.
jenks - 05/16/07 00:05
i think maybe the diff is- say hello, introduce yourself a little, before diving into a sales pitch. It's one thing to promote what you do as part of your journal, I think it's different if it's the SOLE purpose for being here. I notice that fairy did not respond to the "tell us about yourself" comments and chose to just leave....
i think maybe the diff is- say hello, introduce yourself a little, before diving into a sales pitch. It's one thing to promote what you do as part of your journal, I think it's different if it's the SOLE purpose for being here. I notice that fairy did not respond to the "tell us about yourself" comments and chose to just leave....
mike - 05/15/07 23:51
how is it any different than people promoting their roller derby games or djing? which by the by I don't have a problem with, i'm just saying I tihnk tryting to promote things you do or are employed is just naturally part of a journal cuz it is part of what you do/who you are.
how is it any different than people promoting their roller derby games or djing? which by the by I don't have a problem with, i'm just saying I tihnk tryting to promote things you do or are employed is just naturally part of a journal cuz it is part of what you do/who you are.
paul - 05/15/07 20:20
Thanks for pointing that out jacob. I will make sure to send chris a link to this post.
Thanks for pointing that out jacob. I will make sure to send chris a link to this post.
james - 05/10/07 11:52
Felly, Jim
While reading your comments I laughed so hard I vomited a little.
And those are two seperate comments. So that makes twice I did that.
Christ/Astarte that is funny
Felly, Jim
While reading your comments I laughed so hard I vomited a little.
And those are two seperate comments. So that makes twice I did that.
Christ/Astarte that is funny
jim - 05/10/07 11:45
Paul, you are such an anticapitalowiccaist.
Paul, you are such an anticapitalowiccaist.
fellyconnelly - 05/10/07 11:26
oh man... i guess my next post wherein i was going to invite people to purchase my afghani medicinal hair serum/hemroid cream from my personal website should be nixed, huh?
especially since i don't know how to spell 'hemroid'.... :)
oh man... i guess my next post wherein i was going to invite people to purchase my afghani medicinal hair serum/hemroid cream from my personal website should be nixed, huh?
especially since i don't know how to spell 'hemroid'.... :)
joshua - 05/09/07 20:46
Paul, you did the right thing. But you knew that.
Lets be honest, if anybody deserves to make money here its you. As far as I'm concerned overt sales pitches should be deleted immediately - it spoils the community and goes against the ethos of the project. If somebody is offended by that... life is tough. Wear a helmet. This lady should understand that it has nothing to do with being friendly or not - it has to do with exactly what you just described.
Paul, you did the right thing. But you knew that.
Lets be honest, if anybody deserves to make money here its you. As far as I'm concerned overt sales pitches should be deleted immediately - it spoils the community and goes against the ethos of the project. If somebody is offended by that... life is tough. Wear a helmet. This lady should understand that it has nothing to do with being friendly or not - it has to do with exactly what you just described.
05/03/2007 01:11 #39136
New Date Selector CloudCategory: ideas
Well this is more of a pre-announcement but I am getting rid of the date drop down in favor of the date selection cloud. Months with more journals are bigger.
Here is an example from the development server showing my journal with the new style of date selection. Each month is a link. Looks like I was a much busy blogger around this time in 05.
I have lots of other updates coming soon as time warner can get my internet straight for more than 10 hours and I have some free-time from the big project at work.
Here is an example from the development server showing my journal with the new style of date selection. Each month is a link. Looks like I was a much busy blogger around this time in 05.
I have lots of other updates coming soon as time warner can get my internet straight for more than 10 hours and I have some free-time from the big project at work.
jenks - 05/06/07 09:03
but I like the idea of the date cloud.
but I like the idea of the date cloud.
jenks - 05/06/07 09:03
I agree caro- I miss the numbering too.
I agree caro- I miss the numbering too.
carolinian - 05/03/07 02:49
One thing that I kind of miss from the previous "user was an entire db table" days was the numbering of entries (e.g. (e:carolinian) #32 (e:paul) #1250, etc), as it helped give me an idea of how a particular post fit into the grand scheme of all the other posts and to what an extent their journal was a snapshot of an (e:peep)'s life (i.e. if a post was #3000, you get the idea that for years the person was writing about every single thing that happened to them on (e:strip)). I think it would be great if you found a way to bring this feature back.
You might be able to do this elegantly with a custom aggregate function (assuming MySQL supports those yet, which I don't know off the top of my head).
One thing that I kind of miss from the previous "user was an entire db table" days was the numbering of entries (e.g. (e:carolinian) #32 (e:paul) #1250, etc), as it helped give me an idea of how a particular post fit into the grand scheme of all the other posts and to what an extent their journal was a snapshot of an (e:peep)'s life (i.e. if a post was #3000, you get the idea that for years the person was writing about every single thing that happened to them on (e:strip)). I think it would be great if you found a way to bring this feature back.
You might be able to do this elegantly with a custom aggregate function (assuming MySQL supports those yet, which I don't know off the top of my head).
04/30/2007 21:12 #39110
We lost the artvoice best of buffaloCategory: artvoice
Same as always, we lost again. Maybe next year (e:lilho) will vote. The food was tasty again. I particularly liked the ribs.
I still can't upload anything on my time warner connection or even access my gmail.
I still can't upload anything on my time warner connection or even access my gmail.
news - 05/03/07 01:35
It's really all about the voting and any of our peeps don't vote.
It's really all about the voting and any of our peeps don't vote.
mike - 05/03/07 01:17
i actually love that Wilson Farms and believe it could be the best convenience store in Buffalo. After Rudy's of course that is, but that won't win, its in the 'burbs.
i actually love that Wilson Farms and believe it could be the best convenience store in Buffalo. After Rudy's of course that is, but that won't win, its in the 'burbs.
metalpeter - 05/02/07 18:21
First of all it is all about the amounts of votes. If someone has heard of a blog then they will pick that one the same thing with best buffalo website. It isn't like you have all these places and you rate them it is really a popularity contest. It is kinda like when WWE has bikini contests and the fans never yell at who is the hotest the yell at the fan favorite it is kinda the same thing here. Oh Josh When I used to Work there that Wilson Farms was the best store in the city. It was basicly a small supermarket. It also was the highest grossing one in sales. Part of that is the selection of items they had and some of it was all the hot cashiers and Stock Boys like my self who did a really good job and a few of the managers. But in terms of voting you had so many people who shoped there that it gets a lot of votes. The awards are really about numbers. In terms of hearing about (e:strip) there isn't a lot of press out there. In a way that is kinda good. What I mean is that if (e:strip) got to big then the community aspect would be different. You might have 30 groups and each group of friends was like 20 people and none of the groups interacted with each other. But that being said I think it would be good for (e:strip) to expand.
First of all it is all about the amounts of votes. If someone has heard of a blog then they will pick that one the same thing with best buffalo website. It isn't like you have all these places and you rate them it is really a popularity contest. It is kinda like when WWE has bikini contests and the fans never yell at who is the hotest the yell at the fan favorite it is kinda the same thing here. Oh Josh When I used to Work there that Wilson Farms was the best store in the city. It was basicly a small supermarket. It also was the highest grossing one in sales. Part of that is the selection of items they had and some of it was all the hot cashiers and Stock Boys like my self who did a really good job and a few of the managers. But in terms of voting you had so many people who shoped there that it gets a lot of votes. The awards are really about numbers. In terms of hearing about (e:strip) there isn't a lot of press out there. In a way that is kinda good. What I mean is that if (e:strip) got to big then the community aspect would be different. You might have 30 groups and each group of friends was like 20 people and none of the groups interacted with each other. But that being said I think it would be good for (e:strip) to expand.
buffalopundit - 05/01/07 19:53
<blockquote>Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.</blockquote>
Are you serious?
<blockquote>Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.</blockquote>
Are you serious?
mastermindkg - 05/01/07 16:52
How is this site promoted? Other than ArtVoice? I found it on uhm...buffalo.com or something.
How is this site promoted? Other than ArtVoice? I found it on uhm...buffalo.com or something.
jason - 05/01/07 15:54
Exactly Josh. If best means riddled with panhandlers and degenerates on a daily basis, yeah it must be up there with any shithole in the city.
Exactly Josh. If best means riddled with panhandlers and degenerates on a daily basis, yeah it must be up there with any shithole in the city.
joshua - 05/01/07 10:13
Its a complete sham that they cannot appreciate the idea of a community blog site. Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.
At least you got a free meal out of it, but the "best of Buffalo" awards are ludicrous anyway. Who actually believes that the Wilson Farms next to my house has been Buffalo's "best" convenience store?
Its a complete sham that they cannot appreciate the idea of a community blog site. Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.
At least you got a free meal out of it, but the "best of Buffalo" awards are ludicrous anyway. Who actually believes that the Wilson Farms next to my house has been Buffalo's "best" convenience store?
imk2 - 05/01/07 08:29
we also don't have any connection. its been out sice saturday.
we also don't have any connection. its been out sice saturday.
lilho - 04/30/07 22:02
i know, i know. you don't have to make it seem like it was my fault though. and anyway, who says you have to win an award to be the best???? competition is a dangerous thing.
i know, i know. you don't have to make it seem like it was my fault though. and anyway, who says you have to win an award to be the best???? competition is a dangerous thing.
james - 04/30/07 21:58
so they are to blaim! They shall pay dearly.
so they are to blaim! They shall pay dearly.
Um, deleting comments doesn't work. I'm using Firefox.
I DO! I DO!
No matter what date you put at the top, it's still a flashback. It would be cool to see them uncensored in a format as true to the original as possible. And even more interesting with some commentary from the perspective/context of here and now. Maybe keep the journal pub date current and include a FLASHBACK date at the top of the entry saying when they were originally written.
Bring 'em on!
wow, I wonder who has really old journals? I've been wanting to transcribe my written ones into an electronic format for years. With commentary, references, location, etc in another font or format for the purpose of others reading the material. With perhaps a section on what my current thoughts are of what I had written- for prosperity, reflection, entertainment etc. It would be a huge (and nerdy) under taking for me, as writing has been consistent (and lengthy) since about 1985, as well. There must be others with a similar interest?
even the option of pulling old entries from other, blogging sites (pre estrip) to here..
It would be an interesting and probably unique project to bring to fruition. Imagine the stories, history and perspective of peoples thoughts throughout the past few decades- especially for those who wrote without an audience. This would take remembering to a whole new level!!
I'll stop for now. We'll catch up soon :)
When I unearthed my meticulously kept journals from a very young age to 17 I did the sensable thing...
I burned them.
Back before this whole emo thing, no one suffered as much as I did. No one hated this world and the human filth parade more than me.
The journals were so horrendous it isn't even funny.
There is a show touring around called "Salon of Shame" in which people read from their journals of old, talking about the most embarrassing moments of their lives. It sounds like a crackin good show.
you could make (e:oldpaul) or something...
I've had more the opposite- I've found old journals that I don't want to DELETE, but just make private... I like the little eye button. :)