USC
September 15, 2000 by Eric Richardson
I'm really annoyed that I'm out of the US during college football season. I mean, I leave and what does South Carolina do but win TWO games in a row. What's the world coming to?
I love this Lou Holtz quote, though, responding to fans talking about a bowl trip. "My goodness, we just lost 21 in a row. We'll probably go to the Toilet Bowl in Flushing, N.Y." Hehe. USC fans are rabid about their football.
Gymnastics
September 14, 2000 by Eric Richardson
I went to see a gymnastics training session today. It was very cool. Olympic gymnists are amazing, and even more so in person. They're just crazy. Click for more. — Continue Reading...
Storable
September 14, 2000 by Eric Richardson
It's 3am, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out why Storable refuses to store my hash from inside my module, but works perfectly in the script calling the module. Gar.
eThreads 2.0
September 13, 2000 by Eric Richardson
I wrote up a thing on #{node "7"}eThreads#{/node} 2.0 and posted it over at the eThreads news page.
eThreads 2.0 is going to be very cool. Moving to a TCP socket communciating server will not only allow the external app functionality I discuss in the writeup, but also a lot more persistance. Persistance means less db regeneration of content. Less db regeneration of content should mean much more speed (the speed increase when caching got introduced was very good).
muah haha
September 12, 2000 by Eric Richardson
Perl likes me. No matter how crazy of an idea I can come up with, it'll let it work. Today's fun game was to overload a sub with the option of still calling the original sub. Guess what; it's not only possible, but even easy. — Continue Reading...