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No food here, but plenty of breaking. I've been going through the site, checking links, and pages, and managing to find (or even create!) a few problems. It will do us well to find the problems now, like Nirvan says. And for Jason's sake, let's hope there are just a few easy ones.

Heavy on the easy...

The site is excellent, and I just want that on the record. Huzzah!!

Beta Testing continues. We fixed the producer/aspiring-producer ID# issue but have discovered another big bug; somehow our producer credits and donation amounts are being deleted when our testers update their profiles- and their producer ID#s are changing too- which should not be happening. Jason will be trying to track this down. It's good to be finding these bugs- we will have to fix them before we can launch. Other than that major issue, everything else seems to be working fairly well, and it is exciting to be sharing it. Meanwhile, an open conversation continues with IMDb. I sent them a long post with 4 win-win suggestions for IMDb to accurately and efficiently deal with our data management challenge. The suggestions were basically as follows:

Hi this is fun! Hi Nirvan.

Today is a lovely day for beta testing this web site. Hi

This is so wonderful to be a part of the beta testing of the new website. Not only is it a great way for there to be interaction of all those involved in the project but will make it so much easier for the production to continue moving forward and so the interns don't commit suicide. ;-)

So in our first Day of Beta Testing, Jim somehow managed to erase his producer name, change his Producer ID#, and delete his donation amount! These are all some serious bugs, but it's good we know about them and Jason is tracking them down. 

It's good to come home and relax, and not have to work, and find that Beta Testing has started on the new 1 Second Film site. There are rewards - Get through life, and they will come.

i know a lot of people are waiting for the new site, and just wanted to fill you in on what's goin on: we started beta testing the site last week and ran into a kink that has set us back a few days. the way drupal works, every user that registers receives a unique ID#; we are also giving each of our producers a unique "producer ID#." originally, we built the site so that the user ID would be the same as the producer ID. however, we are also creating a role for users who have registered online, but have not donated yet. these users will be called "Aspiring Producers." Aspiring Producers will become real producers after donating $1 or more to their account. They will be able to forward their aspiring producer profile to friends and family allowing others to donate to their credit. this will allow people who do not have $1 the ability to participate. it is also a way for people to register online and then donate by mail, and will save us a lot of administrative time. anyway, the complication was that Aspiring Producers were being given an ID# the same as the user ID, which was the same number being generated for the Producer ID. this was messy, and meant that your Producer ID# might be #10000 even though we only have 9500 producers... it also meant that people could register for free a zillion times and take up a lot of space on our site, and amongst our producer profile pool. anyway, it posed a potential structural problem, so jason has been going back into the code and separating the user ID from the producer ID. it's taken a few extra days to sort it out, but the site will now only generate a producer ID after a user has registered and donated. this will create a much more efficient foundation for our site. we are still ironing out this issue, and hope to resume beta testing this week. kind of technical, but that's what's up. jason will be out of town this week. hoping for a launch in the week after he returns.

Went to the LA Derby Doll's last night to see the legendary Stabitha skate for the Tough Cookies. My friend Morgan Hay (director of Frame #6) is married to Stabitha. John C. Reilly was in the bleachers, cheering a few feet away from us. John also happens to be a fan of Stabitha. I didn't have any fliers with me, so I borrowed a pen and drew one on the back of my roller derby brochure. It was a pretty MacGeyver pitch, but Jon was really nice, liked the idea, and came on board as our newest Associate Producer! I'm a big fan of John's work, so it's really cool to have him join The 1 Second Film's crew. We will be sure to put his dollar to good use!