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.
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Making Life with Facebook Connect Easier
I implemented Facebook Connect on blogdowntown in December of 2008 and have pretty much had a love-hate relationship with it ever since. The functionality...
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Speeding Things Up
I'm trying something new here to speed the blog up. Basically with the server issues I had to downgrade the processor, so for now (until I go buy...
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Yikes
More in my series of computer problems... I noticed something weird going on with my server late last week. Then today, well, things got weirder. Like...
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A Tale of Two Campaign Emails
I got campaign emails this morning from both Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks (not personally... just as a "neighborhood leader"). I...
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Mmmm... Google Maps
I wasn't so impressed when I first tried to check them out and nothing showed up, but now that my technical glitches are worked out I have to say that...
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coding philosophies
I'm doing some contract work these days, just really getting started into it. We were going through some stuff on the phone last week, with them just...
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Portishead - Undenied
I recently reaquired a couple Portishead albums. I first got into them in 1998 when Roseland NYC was coming out. My introduction was actually by way...
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getting out to see those events
I link to flavorpill LA off of my web favorites, but haven't ever gotten around to mentioning it here. It's not any sort of a comprehensive listing...
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my culinary skills will blind you
So last night I did indeed make a grocery list. It had on it the following items: fettucine, broccoli, cooking sherry, ginger powder, and roasted almonds...
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this is why I'm in California
It's 75 degrees outside and perfectly sunny. A little while ago I spent 45 minutes sitting in a boat in the middle of campus. Tonight I'm going...
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BZflag
I was just cleaning up some stuff in /usr/local/ and found a copy of
">BZflag. I love this game. I remember running it on the SGI Indy and having...