In the most recent issue of the Fort peck Journal, it was stated that the "site is still down" due to "technical difficulties."

As can be seen here, this site is not down, nor does it have technical difficulties. The code written for this site is perfectly sound, and the author would like people to realize that no such "technical difficulties" were created by it's author (me).

The site is no longer under the ownership of the Fort Peck Journal, as the employment of it's author has been terminated, and has not been since the beginning of August. The author has left it intact as a service to the Journal, that they may retrieve any documents, etc., that they may need and so they may give warning that the site will be going down.

In our current issue (Issue 31, Volume 2008), a correction ran together with an article in such a way that it was not clearly distinguishable which was which. We apologize to our readers, and here is the original content of the correction:

<em>The July 24, 2008 issue incorrectly named only two Tribal Executive Board members who participated in the Constitutional Convention. All council members – with the exception of Floyd Azure, Darryl Red Eagle and Pete Dupree – participated in the convention. The Journal apologizes for any inconveniences that may have been caused by the report made last week. Council who participated were Ingrid Firemoon, Louis Peterson, Abe Chopper, Rick Kirn, Donna Buckles Whitmer, Bill Whitehead, Gene Culbertson, Tom Christian and Arlyn Headdress.</em>

We apologize for the delay in posting the issue. In last weeks issue, some of the highlights include

- a tribal member becomes hero after Hurricane Katrina

- area soldier severely wounded in Iraq

- rookie firefighting school

Check it out!

Due to a computer auto correct glitch, the name of a person was replaced with "the informant." The name of an informant was used and we auto replaced the name of Sheyenne Dupree Buckles. Dupree is the last name of the informant that was replaced, and unfortunately we didn't catch the mistake. The Journal apologizes for this terrible error.

The Fort Peck Journal website has been having some technical difficulties, but we're back up. Issues 12 and 13 are now up, with photos.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

We'll be keeping you updated on the latest in the Morales Trial as it happens. Note that only Premium Subscribers can view this week's issue until Monday.

Note: We are not -strictly- W3C-compliant, now, as we use the <marquee> tags. Most of our viewers use Firefox or Internet Explorer, and the tags will owrk just fine for them. For those using something else, the W3C will support marquee in CSS3, so we\'ll just have to wait.

We might be having a bit of downtime this weekend. I'm going to see if we can move to a MySQL 5.0 server (right now we are using MySQL 4). It's a bunch of techie bull, but it just basically means I can code things that I couldn't before, and other coding will be easier.

It should be relatively quick and painless. Keep your fingers crossed.

Still working on the blotter database--it's quite a hefty chunk of work! I've got it set up to receive the data, I just need to program it to spit out the info in a format that will be useful to you, heh.

More front page features are in the brainstorm phase. "Headline News" that will list a few articles at the top of the home page, and a weekly site poll that will display underneath the front page image (to the right), for starters. If you all have any input on what YOU would like to see on the front page, don't hesitate to ask in our forums. :)

In the latest online issue, the "jumps" (when a story cuts to another page) was screwed up, and each article was started at the jump. This has been fixed in the latest online issue.

Louis is placing in the last few issues we've missed. They should be available to view right away, all but Issue 7 (except for rpemium subscribers).

We've got the paper in, now. Stuffing the inserts now. (Volume 08, Issue 07)

Also, PDFs are available for premium subscribers, and issues are being uploaded (for the past three issues).

For this week's issue, we will run the Happy Ad pages as PDF documents that all registered memebrs will be able to download. Remember, registration is free, too!

Happy Valentine's day!

Finally found a way to get the issue PDFs to be downloadable. If you are a Premium Subscriber, you will now be able to download a Journal as a PDF file for Volume 2006, Issue 06 (07.FEB.08) on up.

Dear Journal Readers,

Some of you might have noticed that some items in the recent issue (several ads and the basketball brackets) had a "blocky" look to them. Somehow during layout, several pictures lost resolution like this. As I do much of the layout in addition to the website, I'm currently trying to find out how it happened, so that it doesn't happen again. Sorry 'bout that.

It seems our host server is having some problems. Over the past few minutes, various services have been up and down, as if they're testing something, or trying to fix something.

We're hosting our site on a shared server, and I never realized that the default time zone was set to CST. We're now back on the right timezone, so sorry about any inconvenience, heh.

In the last version of the site, I had a function that was designed to display who was logged on the site at the current time. I'm working on a similar function right now, except that I'm making it to actually work CORRECTLY this time, heh.

Also, when you are looking at a topic on our forums or an article in our database, you'll be able to see if other members are currently reading that same topic/article. Members will be able to set it so that they are "invisible" (so they don't show up on these lists) if they don't want everyone to see what they're doing, heh.

Updates might be a little slow over the next 24 hours, though, because it's layout night here at the Journal. Unfortunately, I'm on a Windows computer, so it's harder to configure what I want to get done (compared to my Linux computer at home, which was easy to set up as a webserver with MySQL and PHP, so I had a test environment).

Password change and password reset have been added, as well as the member registration I forgot and left out. Heh. Everything's been tested, but if you find any bugs, report 'em.

Okay, so I forgot a few key things--the most important of which was a member registration page. Oops! That\'s okay, I\'m working on it, and right afterwards, I\'ll execute the script to tell everyone it\'s up and running. :)

Well, I wasn\'t as much of a genius as I thought I was... With the last site, I was making two, three, even four MySQL queries where one query (with either JOINs or sub-queries) would have sufficed. The difference is that, with one query, the work is put on MySQL rather than PHP, which usually means a speed increase due to less overhead (i.e., MySQL can process it\'s own information faster if I\'m not passing arguements back and forth between it and PHP).

The speed increase may be marginal for most things, but will definately help in the search queries (and the loading of logs, Admin-side).

Well, in truth, it's still not really created yet. I've got the forum skeleton down, and working on articles right after I enter this update. (I'm actually just entering this to see how the updates will look on the front page, heh.)