The other day I was showing someone some of the different looks I had created for this site in the past and realized I really should have a page which exhibited them. The looks page now links to many of the looks that has (dis)graced this site in the past. They're pretty raw, but they're there enough to get the idea.
Yesterday it sort of sunk in that I'll be back in Michigan next week. Believe it or not, I'm actually glad for this. Australia's great, but I'm ready to go back to a normal life for a couple months.
Of course, going back means having to think about real life again. I've got a couple of things that'll be demanding my attention right when I return.
Here's something you don't see every day:
[eric@segfault looks]$ rm -r x.0/2.0/
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Whoah... rm? coredump? To make things even better, I can't find the core file.
Over in my Australia log I've linked to a couple video clips I've done here. They aren't much, but the second one is kind of cool. See them here.
I'm finally getting around to linking to a couple video clips I've done while I've been here. Also, last night I saw the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House. Quite an experience.
The fact that you're reading this means you've weathered the DNS change. We now return to the previously scheduled boringness.
Something's wrong here. The University of South Carolina is now 4-0. They've beaten two ranked teams, and are 2-0 in the SEC. That's after losing 21 straight games. Go Cocks!
This site will be down for a touch while the server moves tomorrow. It should be an easy move, and physical down-time should be around a half-hour. Hopefully DNS won't take too long to catch up. If your DNS isn't picking up the new address quick enough, feel free to make up somerandomhost.ericrichardson.com and go there. I can pretty much guarantee that whatevercrazythingyouthinkup.ericrichardson.com won't be cached.
Another addition to the verbal intercourse section. This time it's the last column I wrote for the school newspaper last year, containing my thoughts on school.
Much thanks to Betsy for actually hunting down this article for me.
With my cameras down, I now have a database of 29,719 images sitting there doing absolutely nothing. Seeing that as a big waste, I decided it would be cool to make stuff with it. My first effort -- more a tool to getting results than an end in itself -- is score, a way for you to weed the good images from the bad. I leave the qualifications for good and bad up to you, the viewer.
Yesterday I pretty much took in the whole Olympic experience, starting with beach volleyball in the morning and ending up with a taste of the city at night.
So Smashing Pumpkins have, as a last insult to Virgin, released over an hour worth (1:25, actually) of new stuff. Supposedly Billy Corgan specifically released it with the intention of it being spread via mp3. That rocks. You can get it here at 99x.com. Good stuff.
I'm really annoyed that I'm out of the US during college football season. I mean, I leave and what does South Carolina do but win TWO games in a row. What's the world coming to?
I love this Lou Holtz quote, though, responding to fans talking about a bowl trip. "My goodness, we just lost 21 in a row. We'll probably go to the Toilet Bowl in Flushing, N.Y." Hehe. USC fans are rabid about their football.
I went to see a gymnastics training session today. It was very cool. Olympic gymnists are amazing, and even more so in person. They're just crazy. Click for more.
It's 3am, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out why Storable refuses to store my hash from inside my module, but works perfectly in the script calling the module. Gar.
I wrote up a thing on #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node} 2.0 and posted it over at the eThreads news page.
eThreads 2.0 is going to be very cool. Moving to a TCP socket communciating server will not only allow the external app functionality I discuss in the writeup, but also a lot more persistance. Persistance means less db regeneration of content. Less db regeneration of content should mean much more speed (the speed increase when caching got introduced was very good).
Perl likes me. No matter how crazy of an idea I can come up with, it'll let it work. Today's fun game was to overload a sub with the option of still calling the original sub. Guess what; it's not only possible, but even easy.
So apparently Mandrake is looking at houses in Michigan. What the... I mean, I guess after a while you just want to settle down, but how far disconnected from the rest of the world can you get and still retain sanity?
Since I'm in Sydney, I have to see something in the Opera House. Right now my first choice is NZSO - Antartica. A film with live Orchestra would be really cool.
Bill Gates was at the Sydney Media Centre yesterday and I didn't know... I should have guessed since he's speaking at the World Economic Forum today and I saw all the .NET stuff in the conference room... Oh well, that would have been interesting.
Speaking of the World Economic Forum, there are 10,000 protestors there. That's impressive. There was a good article on the protests in Wired News today. It'll be interesting to see if many protestors migrate down to Sydney after things are done there.
I had a dream last night in which this server crashed and wouldn't come back. I really need to make sure my hack backup system gets everything.
Another article found on my hard drive. This time it's a Norse Star column about NM Class Offerings. As always, writing is found in the verbal intercourse section.
My Student council campaign speech from last year is now up in the verbal intercourse section. This speech was actually two speeches put together on the fly, hence the jump from economic policy to rain forests mid-thought.
I bought Tricky's Maxinquaye CD today. Very cool. It's much more like the Massive Attack era Tricky than any of his newer stuff. Very easy to listen to (as compared to the scratchy-voiced, odd-tempoed Angels with Dirty Faces).
I know... The CD's been out since 1995. I'm a little slow.
So apparently South Carolina finally won a game. It's about time.
If you're going to break a 21-game skid, that's the way to do it, too. 31-0. Muah haha...
This article reminds me why it is that I've always enjoyed reading Suck. I guess it's the writing style. Maybe, though, it's just the fact that they can use so many words on such little topics. That's an art.
I just updated the movie page in the favorites section. I added a favorite movie, updated all of the "recent" movies, and put IMDB links on all of the movies listed. Hopefully it'll be a little more useful now.
Saturday I finally got out and made my first trip to Sydney Harbor (err... Harbour over here, i guess). It was great. Lots of fun stuff to do down there.