welcome to eThreads:evolution

April 26, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So I just switched rantings over to the #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node}:evolution core (or eTevolution). You really won't notice much of a difference on the front-end, but I assure you there's a lot of cool new stuff going on in the backend that you just can't see. One thing you can see is the archives, which is linked to at the top of this page. I'll post more about the new backend later.

quote of the night

April 24, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Paraphrasing Drew Pryor:

The number one thing I would tell you is... don't be a COMM major. We already know common sense, we don't need to major in it.

gar gar gar

April 24, 2002 by Eric Richardson

It would make sense that the day before I have to take my COMM final, the USC email server would be borked up and I wouldn't be able to download the study guide... Typical...

cell phones

April 23, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I really know more than most people should about cell phones. Everyone else just cares about making and receiving calls, and here I am looking at things like what Voicestream's LA build-out is going to do to Cingular's network saturation and the details of GPRS roaming.

Today I called Cingular and got changed to a newer rate plan (my 350 minute national plan went down $10), activated Wireless Internet Express (GPRS... 1mb included), and asked a lot of roaming questions. Wireless Internet will roam fine in Muskegon on NPI, and when I'm in Grand Rapids or Chicago I should be able to roam onto Voicestream's GPRS network. I've only done the most trivial playing with GPRS so far, but it's definitely faster and a quicker connect time. Now I just need to find a good way to monitor the traffic I put through it to keep from going over the 1mb cap.

T minus 9 hours

April 17, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Today's target: a COMM 200 paper on the elaboration likelihood theory. Pound for pound, it's a decent theory, but not really something I'm relishing the idea of writing eight pages on. It's due at 9:30. It's going to be a long night. At noon my life is much better.