shns

February 03, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I'm becoming addicted to downloading live shows instead of mp3s. Granted, going shn-only limits my choice of downloads to bands that allow tapers, but really that's all I'm listening to anyway, so I don't mind. Right now I'm desperately in need of another hard drive, though, as I'm currently at the point of deleting mp3s to make room for shows.

Taper-friendly bands I'm listening to right now: Howie Day, Radiohead, Blues Traveler, and John Mayer.

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.

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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