Sent: a phonecam art show
July 10, 2004 by Eric Richardson
The phonecam art exhibition Sent opens today. You might think, "Phonecams suck, why would you have an exhibition with them?" Caryn Coleman answers that question and explains more of the idea in this art.blogging.la post. The public exhibition is at the downtown Standard Hotel, which is only a couple blocks from my apartment. I'm planning to walk over and check things out in a few hours (after laundry's done and I actually have clothes to wear).
In honor of the exhibition, I've gone through my buzznet photos and selected out a few of my favorites.
what i've been up to
July 08, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Over the past weeks I've been working on a complete rewrite of eThreads, my forever in progress piece of forum/blog/who-knows software. I posted a bit of a brief history a couple years ago, but I don't think it really does a good job of summing up exactly how long I've been doing this. Let's take a look at codebase versions (not releases, but major changes in the architecture):
April 21, 1998
This is the oldest recorded date in the eThreads revision log. It was actually the third check-in (version 1.3 of common.pl), since I didn't have any RCS tags (yeah, my pre-CVS days) in the initial checkins. Most likely, though, that inital checkin was on or right around this same date. I'm not sure exactly when development began, though.
June 09, 1998
This is the oldest remaining snapshot of the eThreads code, and can be found in http://old.ethreads.com/src/archive/devel/old/. Tonight I actually took a little bit of time to recreate some database syntax and get a bit of that old code running. You can see the resulting test forum here. It's not much to look at, and none of the stuff that requires logging in will work, but I'm kind of amazed it runs at all.
July 14, 1998
This is the date of the first checkin log entry I have for the eThreadsII codebase. It's version 1.4 of shared-code, so the real start must have come a bit earlier. This version gets rid of the crazy BASIC-style syntax=? navigation and brings in the new (and current) /script/function/forum/ style URLs.
September 19, 1998
I use strict; for the first time.
January 20, 1999
First checkin of the shell that will become the new eThreadsIII codebase.
April 18, 1999
This blog post was the first time eThreads was used on this site. Previously I had been using a little app I called eNews.
July 14, 2000
eThreads 1.2 was released. This has been the last major eThreads release for what is it now? four years? Ouch.
August 10, 2001
eTevolution branched off from the eThreadsIII codebase. The eThreadsIII code subsequently died, aside from little bug-fixes, so it was more just a change in direction than a real branch. Oh well.
July 31, 2003
mod_perl_safe branch began in an effort to get a much needed speed boost. Though it never technically merged back into the main branch, this was where all development was. On August 8, 2003, I moved this site over to the newly mod_perl friendly code.
May 14, 2004
First checkin of eTrevolution core. This is a ground-up rewrite designed around mod_perl and a very OO interface.
So it's been six years now, I've released a couple versions, and I'm been promising 2.0 since 2002. I think I'm right on track.
Cole's P.E. Buffet
July 08, 2004 by Eric Richardson
I've mentioned Cole's before, in the context of it being the oldest bar/resturant in LA. Not only is it that, though, it's also a place that's doing some cool stuff to get people in and engage the community. Last week they started doing free movie nights on a 70" TV. Last week they showed The Princess Bride. This week they're showing The Big Lebowski. They also feature some live music, the occassional play, and apparently sometimes a reading series. I'd love to see the live music side of things pick up. I'd be in heaven if I could walk a block and a half to see shows.
Cole's also has a collection of really old stock listings books (or at least we'll say that's what they're called... I can't really remember off-hand). Last time I was in there Magilla, another friend, and I made a fairly tedious, but entertaining, game out of picking stocks and seeing who was in the best shape at the end of a couple months. I won.
WIFI: LA Central Library?
July 07, 2004 by Eric Richardson
I just noticed that the Central Library website lists wifi in their computer center. I can't seem to find, though, if the coverage is specific to the computer center or if it covers the entire library. I could really use a good place to go with the laptop; all the cool ones I've been to are far from downtown. Something outside, like the coverage that should someday blanket Pershing Square, would be excellent.
just my luck
July 07, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Third time in a row that I've pulled up to the steps at the Memorial Park Gold Line station and looked down to see the southbound train starting to accelerate out of the station. I end up leaving the office at different times every day, so in the end it's just that I'm unlucky.
The bike ride into work today about killed me. I swear some days that ride's a lot tougher than others. I just keep telling myself it's good for me.