PCI fun

April 08, 2001 by Eric Richardson

If you go to plug something into the back of a PCI card that's not screwed into your machine, and that card happens to come out of its PCI slot, don't try to put it back in with the computer on. Computers don't like that.

DNA Lounge

April 08, 2001 by Eric Richardson

As you've probably noticed, I'm pretty much always in awe of jwz. Currently, jwz's big thing is the DNA Lounge, a nightclub he bought after leaving Netscape. Throughout the oft-extended reconstruction, jwz's "backstage logs" have been a fascinating look into all that goes on in reconstructing a nightclub in SF. For a programmer, jwz is really good at explaining a very wide range of subjects from sound equipment to plumbing and bathroom fixtures. Definitely a worthwhile read. — Continue Reading...

C64

April 08, 2001 by Eric Richardson

This afternoon I was sitting here at the computer, bored as usual, so I decided to fire up VICE. I've proceeded to spend most of the rest of the afternoon on old C64 games I found at LEMON. My first forays into computing were right here playing Summer Olympics.

Now if only I could find a copy of GEOS for the C128 and remember how to get into adventure under C/PM, my nostalgia trip would be complete. — Continue Reading...

it's that phone time of year...

March 27, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So Ericsson announced their new phones at Cebit whenever it was (I wasn't paying attention, apparently), and they've got two that look really nice. The T39 is basically the evolution of the T28 (which I have), taking the same form factor and adding tri-band (T28 was 900/1900, tri-band is 900/1800/1900), Bluetooth, GPRS, a PIM (I would love this on the T28), WAP, infrared, predictive text input, and a battery capable of freaky alien-like standby and talk times. I want this. I want this now. Unfortunately, it's not available until Q2.

The T68 takes the collness award, bringing color into the phone picture. Still, though, I'd take the T28/T39 form factor over color any day.

late march in michigan

March 25, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So it's late March now and winter is trying to defy the turn of spring around here. A couple inches of snow this morning, and the possibility of many more in the next 24 hours or so. Fun, eh? We're supposed to open our baseball season on Wednesday. The forecast? Snow. High of 35.

Friday I'm off to Florida for a week. When I get back, the weather better have caught up with the times.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2004
i fought the train and the train won
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2002
we have internet
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really, really hot out
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2001
downtown
Tonight I walked from USC to downtown with a guy from my floor. It was a highly entertaining trip, if only for the crazy people we met. It's a little...
USC 21, SJSU 10
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1999
more school fun
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it's really school again...
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