wet and wet

March 01, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Went missing from here over the weekend. Not sure how that happened.

Saturday we went wakeboarding at Elsinore. The water was 10 degrees warmer than it was two weeks ago. The water was beautiful until right after I went, and then a big wind kicked up, but I didn't care 'cause I had just gone.

Today I spent the day on a golf course hanging with Colby Beckstrom. He didn't really shoot the lights out today, but the weather was against him (and everyone else). It was really cold, really wet, and by the end really dark. If it keeps raining tonight I wouldn't be surprised to see the final 18 holes rained out. USC is in first, which is cool seeing as it is their own tournament and all. I spent most of the day wearing a USC hat and TCU jacket, which I'm sure was confusing to people.

stupid spam

February 27, 2004 by Eric Richardson

I get a lot spam. Typically it's on the order of 330 or so a day. July of 2002 I installed SpamAssassin, and that definitely made email bearable again. Over the last week or so, though, all of a sudden many more messages are getting through than were before. I've gone from getting up in the morning to see 1 or 2 spams that trickled through to seeing 17 this morning.

Because of this, today I decided to get CRM114 a shot. Aside from having the cool Dr. Strangelove name, it's also been getting some good press lately. I'd say it's too early to really know how it's doing, since it involves a training process, but already it's grabbing most of my spam and throwing it into a seperate box. It mis-classified one message as spam, but it's allowed to do that before it has any built up data to work with.

I'm cautiously optimistic this'll help me out.

Music: Justin Rosolino <i>Wonderlust</i>

February 26, 2004 by Eric Richardson

I got a copy of Justin Rosolino's new cd Wonderlust the other day. It's been quite a while since Justin's last album, so it's good to see something new coming from him. A lot of people come to my site looking for justin since his entry in whatsplaying shows up at #4 & 5 (3 & 4 until justin just put his site back online) on google.

The album is a mix of new songs and new versions of some older songs. I was really excited to hear his studio versions of songs like "Legacy" and "Anyone". Justin has an amazing voice and writes some really honest songs, and these still resonate with me like they did when I first heard them three and a half years ago. "Oprah" is a fun up-tempo new track. There's also a hidden instrumental track (track 29) which really struck me for how much it sounds like something that could be off a cd by Rodney Branigan. Definitely a cool cd, and worth picking up. Justin's going to be out here in LA in April, so we're working on hooking him up with a show then.

citywide wifi?

February 26, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Over at LA Blogs they mention that the mayor of Hermosa Beach is going to be at tonight's SoCal Wireless Users Group meeting talking about his plan to have city-wide wifi.

Now, I don't know how much of a pipe-dream this is, or if he's really got the power to pull it off, but I think this would be amazing. I've gotten pretty spoiled having wifi access on campus at USC, and it's starting to be one of those things where I'm surprised when I go somewhere and can't find an access point.

It used to be my plan to move to the beach next year for my senior year. That's not going to happen (it'll be downtown instead), but I definitely intend to end up at the beach for at least a year or two after college. Wifi in Hermosa could definitely tilt the balance in its favor. Not that getting me to move there really means much, but I'd like to assume I'd not so abnormal that others wouldn't have sort of the same thought process.

another cool link

February 24, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing linked to the paper. I had never heard of Marshall McLuhan, but he Bruce says I ask "some McLuhanesque questions about the nature of blogs." All I have to say is, that's one crazy bio.