daily trojan

July 18, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So apparently the Daily Trojan, USC's campus newspaper, published a couple issues over the summer. The latest, published June 26, featured a lead story entitled "Student Raped on Campus." That issue appears to be the last for the summer, and for several weeks that headline stood there as the lead story. Today I vist and find that the feature story has changed, to an article about tanning. Who wants to place odds on the university pulling some strings for the sake of publicity?

and the winner is...

July 17, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So right now the leading July google query to lead people to my site is... saxaboom? For the second month is a row? 14 hits for that this month, compared to only 10 last month. Of course, it hasn't even cracked the year's top ten yet. The year's top mark is held by student council speech, with 316 hits (plus 53 for "student council speech" and 36 for student council speeches).

The next entries on the current July list: dispatch under the radar (11), intercourse (10), grace is gone (9), and dave matthews band-busted stuff (8).

movies to watch for

July 02, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So as part of my job I see a lot of movie trailers, most many, many times. Though the strength of these trailers may or may not reflect the quality of the picture itself, usually it's a good early indicator. Click to read what I'm looking forward to. — Continue Reading...

gar windows gar

June 27, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So as part of my job I spend most of my day in Adobe Premiere. Or, at least, I intend to... I swear Premiere spends as much time crashed as it does running. The setup I'm on includes a Canopus DVRexRT, which is very cool for doing realtime effects and such, but stability was obviously not on the requirement list. A Premiere/PC setup may save money over Avid and its ilk, but anyone going this route should really evaluate cost savings vs. loss of productivity.

And no, Final Cut Pro was not an option. The ability to do transitions and effects without rendering is integral to the specs, and FCP won't do that.

doh... headed for the inbox

June 26, 2002 by Eric Richardson

This is never a good sign...

[(eric@gonzo)-([Wed June 26 9:36am])]
~: sudo qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 911
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 200

The numbers even got higher than that... Something in Gospelcom's installation of Intershop is haywire right now and sent me at least 5000 error messages. I was getting probably 100 per minute.