Live - Simple Creed

October 24, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I know this song's been all over the radio, but I'm still a big fan of it. I think this came out of the same colaboration that resulted in Tricky's Evolution Revolution Love. I like Live, and I like seeing Tricky get pulled out of his genre a little. Also from the V album: People Like You and Forever May Not Be Long Enough.

muah haha

October 20, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I'm writing this from sjc3, one of above.net's colos in San Jose. I now once again have my own colo'ed server. Web is still elsewhere right now, but I just moved the databases for the site over, and things are much faster (1 hop between web and db, instead of many). I am a happy man. When I get back to LA my web presence can finally get back into swing.

on breaking computers

October 18, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So today I decide I really need to take the IDE drive out of my computer. I have three drives, I'm not really doing much with the IDE drive, no problem. Except that that's my boot drive, and I've never tried booting SCSI on this machine. Of course, I push on. Fun ensues. Click for more. — Continue Reading...

Shea Seger - Blind Situation

October 14, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I heard of Shea Seger because she's been touring with John Mayer. I'm mixed on a lot of her songs, but I really like Blind Situation. It's really down-tempo with some rap (by a rapper I haven't heard of -- Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes). Always and Twisted are also cool.

qmail hacking

October 11, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So tonight I had to figure out a very quick way to get email into a host inside the USC network. This wouldn't seem to be a problem, except that USC blocks port 25 traffic at some router level. Hackery was definitely called for, as ISD was probably going to be far slower than was acceptable for our purpose. Click for details... — Continue Reading...

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...

2006
If Only I Didn't Keep Coming Back
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2005
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Mmmm... Java Calculator
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LAist on MTA vote; Me on LAist
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2004
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starting a discussion
It's interesting to start seeing online response to my paper on blogs and corporations. Sean Bonner instigated a lot of the spreading, on his site...
getting ready
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geography and the Internet
My dad sent me a link today to a 'blog post' (it's a magazine. it's an editorial. we just went over this.) on ChristianityToday.com entitled...
2003
found it
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