disappearing post

February 06, 2002 by Eric Richardson

In the course of doing some eThreads works I discovered that one post, fighting the medium, had a messed up status code that caused it not to be displayed. I've remedied the problem, and thought it was a decent enough post to link to it.

and to bed

February 06, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Heh... Yeah... So I have four pages... They're not good pages, though. Oh well. I didn't really expect them to be.

gar paper gar writing gar

February 06, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So it's now what -- 5:05am? -- and I've got about a page and a half of very jumbled ramblings. Only a rough draft is due tomorrow, and oh boy will this one be rough. Heh... An example of me at the top of my writing game this most definitely is not. Granted, taking 45 minutes off to talk on the phone didn't positively affect my productivity.

papers, papers, papers

February 05, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Ok, so tonight I need to write four pages on a topic that I really have no strong opinion on, and that I haven't really even thought about until tonight. And yet I'm not starting writing until after Elimidate. Gotta have priorities, eh?

Writing prompt: How do Mill's ideas of liberty apply to the design and/or implementation of Megan's Law?

The Strokes - Is This It

February 05, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I feel kind of cheesy pointing to a title track, but it's also the first song on the cd, and the song where I knew I liked them. A friend lent me The Strokes first album, Is This It, and thirty seconds in I was locked in for the duration. Instead of recommending other songs, I'm going to recommend the entire album be listened to in one sitting. That's really just the way it's meant to be.

furthurnet

February 05, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Furthur is a P2P network dedicated to sharing only shn files from taper-friendly bands. For people used to chasing files around an ever-changing network of up and down ftp sites, a dedicated P2P system is very cool.

In other, but related, news, I ordered a 60gig hard drive tonight. I've been running dangerously low on space lately.

escripting.com

February 05, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So a couple of my domains are still registered at Network Solutions because I'm too scared of paperwork to change them. One of them, escripting.com, currently shows up in whois with an expiration date of 10-Nov-2001. Hmmm... Yet the record updated date is 2002-01-09, and the domain definitely still works, so I don't know if I forgot to pay renewal or if NetSol is just screwing up as usual.

MTA Trip Planner for WAP

February 03, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Tonight I decided that my next WAP project will be a WAP interface for MTA's Trip Planner. I guess the thinking is that most people with WAP don't ride the bus in LA, but I can think of many times when this would be really useful to me. Hacking a script that'll access the web interface won't be pretty, but I think it's definitely doable.

shns

February 03, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I'm becoming addicted to downloading live shows instead of mp3s. Granted, going shn-only limits my choice of downloads to bands that allow tapers, but really that's all I'm listening to anyway, so I don't mind. Right now I'm desperately in need of another hard drive, though, as I'm currently at the point of deleting mp3s to make room for shows.

Taper-friendly bands I'm listening to right now: Howie Day, Radiohead, Blues Traveler, and John Mayer.

the advantage of college

February 02, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I just downloaded a new mozilla nightly in approximately 7 seconds. I don't know exactly, as by the time I realized what was going on, it was done. ncftp tells me I was going at 1.11MB/sec. That's 8.88Mb/sec. Wow.

The odd thing? I'm at least 15 hops from ftp.mozilla.org. Granted, it is a direct USC connect to MAE LA, then Above bandwidth to AOL's network, but still... That's just fast.