LAist: Welcome to Last Fall

April 12, 2005 by Eric Richardson

LAist today gives us this great observation:

We saw this billboard on Vine at Selma. Is it still up?

Nevada sure isn't pulling its punches as it lures business away from our sorry state.

Is Nevada's message accurate?

"They" include what is a good picture of the Nevada "terminated" billboards, so I'll give credit there. But, uhh... Those billboards have been running since October of last year. For instance, here's a picture I took on October 15th, 2004, just a few miles from my apartment. I thought the point of blogs was to be current. Perhaps the post just got caught at the editor's desk.

Too bad they couldn't add any insight to the "sorry state" bit. I happen to think that the small business tax reform passed in LA recently might improve the business climate, but I don't know if that makes the state's message accurate or not.

bigideas4hosting

April 12, 2005 by Eric Richardson

Is it just me, or does Bob Hertzberg's bigideas4la need some new ideas for service? Yesterday and today I've gotten a SERVFAIL error from the site's listed DNS servers. :

[eWorld (eric@bit)-([Tue April 12 10:25am])]
~: dig www.bigideas4la.com @208.185.250.115

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> www.bigideas4la.com @208.185.250.115
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 2737
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

Perhaps big ideas should start with even a little work on keeping the host entries working correctly.

A Screenshot

April 11, 2005 by Eric Richardson

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It's been a long time since I posted a screenshot. This one's actually from the first four desks of my workstation here at work, but I wanted to point out that three of the four backgrounds are photos. Two of them (the second and fourth desks) I took, and one that Jonah posted on LA Blogs. I love how all three work with the transparent terminals on top.

Just Another Friday

April 11, 2005 by Eric Richardson

Sometimes I just have to sit back and wonder how it is that I ended up in my life out here in LA. Friday afternoon was one of those times.

It all started when I wanted to buy a pirate hook.

I wasn't sure where to do that. So I emailed Jon Regardie at the Downtown News and asked if anyone around the newsroom knew where I might pick one up. Oddly, he did. — Continue Reading...

The Fun of Self-Help Technology

April 07, 2005 by Eric Richardson

Being that I'm somewhat in love with technology, it would seem to me that I should like things like the self check-out machines at the Central Library. But I don't. They're hard to use.

Today, though, the line for regular check-out was long and I didn't feel like waiting, so I thought I'd go through with it. — Continue Reading...