the advantage of college
February 02, 2002 by Eric Richardson
I just downloaded a new mozilla nightly in approximately 7 seconds. I don't know exactly, as by the time I realized what was going on, it was done. ncftp tells me I was going at 1.11MB/sec. That's 8.88Mb/sec. Wow.
The odd thing? I'm at least 15 hops from ftp.mozilla.org. Granted, it is a direct USC connect to MAE LA, then Above bandwidth to AOL's network, but still... That's just fast.
WAP launch
January 29, 2002 by Eric Richardson
For those of you with WAP phones, i'm putting the WAP content I'm playing around with at http://wap.ericrichardson.com
Feel free to check it out, though I can guarantee the site will contain little of substance.
WAP
January 29, 2002 by Eric Richardson
So today I finally got around to trekking downtown and getting my cell number changed to be local here in LA. Somehow this got me heaps of free night and weekend minutes, so I decided to add WAP to my account and play around. Of course, being me, I can't be content to just browse... No... I must create WAP content.
So now my fun for the night is figuring out how to write WML and make wbmp's.
corporate ethics
January 24, 2002 by Eric Richardson
So I'm sitting here trying to write another page about corporate ethics. I'm really not all too excited by this, as it really means I should come up with some more good sources to quote, and I really don't have any desire to. The problem with reading so much Plastic and Slashdot is that while I have well-reasoned opinions on a lot of things, I don't exactly have much quotable source material to go off of. Oh well... I'll make it. If nothing else I'll ramble about Microsoft.
julian coryell and jeremy toback
January 24, 2002 by Eric Richardson
One of the things I love most about LA is the sheer number of cool shows I have the chance to go see. This Saturday another one rolls around, and, assuming I can find a ride, I'll be there. This one is Jeremy Toback and Julian Coryell at The Press in Pomona (or Claremont, depending on who you ask). I saw Jeremy Toback here at USC in the fall and enjoyed his show, but I'm really excited to see Julian Coryell. KCRW's Morning Eclectic has a really cool live set of his. Check it out.