cell phones

July 07, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I'm going to be getting a new cell phone soon to replace my Nextel (over-pricing and bad call quality, yippee!), so I've been looking around a bit.

Right now I'm leaning towards getting a phone from VoiceStream once they get their national plan here in MI (600 minutes/month for $59.95). When I get that, I simply must have an Ericsson T28 World. 4x2x0.6 inches... Wow. I'd get the little infrared modem, too. — Continue Reading...

more on my mp3 player

July 03, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I just looked at my mp3 player stuff and realized it's been almost exactly a year since I last worked on it. Check out my description of it's operation from July 10, 1999.

It's really scary that the whole setup works. Shared memory, signals... Ugh... I really should rewrite it to use true IPC and sockets.

Anyway, I've posted the current (last year's) incarnation at eScripting for your perusal.

misc news

July 03, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I'm back, so the cameras are now back online. I replaced the camera on pizzabox, but it's still an IndyCam, so the image still sucks.

Also, xmms 1.2.1 isn't working for me, so I think I'm going to take that as a sign to resume work on the old mp3 player I was writing. I may even try my hand at a Perl/GTK GUI. The nice side-benefit of this is that I'll be able to log mp3 playing to SQL again, so look for my mp3 logs to return.

work

June 25, 2000 by Eric Richardson

After getting 5 hours of sleep last night and being on my 14th hour of work so far today, jwz's diary from the early days at Netscape is very easy to relate to. jwz, however, kept his insane schedule for months. That's just freaky.

my journey around SF

June 20, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I took a little hike around SF today... Actually, it was a lot longer than that. I started out by walking to the Sony Metreon, then wandered down to Fisherman's Wharf, before climbing up to Coit Tower. If you take a look at this picture you'll see a flat building with a tower on it below the Bay Bridge. I walked from beyond there up to where the picture was taken, then back.

My feet are tired.