wallpaper

November 23, 2000 by Eric Richardson

As you probably know, I tend to change my wallpaper a lot. With 5 desktops and some fairly odd tastes, sometimes I have trouble coming up with enough good material. Today I found a site, deviant art, which looks like it'll keep my screen filled for a while. I went through the photo manipulation section today... 468 images, and 11 candidates for my desktop. That's a good day.

camera thumbnail

November 19, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I'm playing with adding the little camera thumbnail back. Right now there are still going to be some issues with image caching (I need to server it out of a CGI so I can either set pragma=no-cache or set the Expire date in the past) and a little grey halo from the blur function in the dropshadow code, but it's a start.

it's snow time

November 19, 2000 by Eric Richardson

So yesterday I did my first sideways sliding of the season. A couple friends and I went to see How the Grinch Stole Christmas yesterday, and coming back the little NM roads were all solid ice. I slid past one turn (unintentionally), did a fun little 180 backing out of a driveway (intentionally), and then held a powerslide too long, leading to the previously mentioned little time going sideways (although I did manage to pull out of it and continue down the street).

Ah.... It's really winter now.

software patents are evil

November 19, 2000 by Eric Richardson

So apparently UniSys has decided to wave their GIF patents a little more. This time they've made Dupont quit distributing ImageMagick. When will the patent office wake up to the fact that you shouldn't be able to patent algorithms? It's all just math, people. You can't patent math.

heh

November 17, 2000 by Eric Richardson

So I just stumbled across this page about eThreads on a ZDNet site. That's sort of weird, seeing my name there.