Breaking Things, Getting Ready, and Getting Access

March 10, 2005 by Eric Richardson

It turns out I broke authentication on Tuesday afternoon while putting some code changes in place. Oddly, I was still able to post Tuesday evening after the DLANC meeting, but the code was broken so I'm not sure how that worked. Something still looks to be a little wacky, but it should just affect authenticated access, so none of you should see it.

That doesn't have anything to do with me not posting yesterday, though. I didn't notice until this morning. Yesterday I was just busy studying for my last midterm before spring break. Now I have classes today, work tomorrow, and then Monday Kathy and I fly to South Carolina for six days.

I'm working on getting internet access working through my phone. If I can get that going I'll use that while I'm in SC. I have my laptop able to make the phone connect to network and from the console it looks like the ppp connection starts up correctly, but something still isn't working right through kppp. I think I'm close, though.

podcast 0.1

March 08, 2005 by Eric Richardson

When KCRW started podcasting I mentioned I wanted to write a script to manage downloading the files and getting them over to my cell phone each night. Well, I haven't quite done that yet. But I have written the first steps, and put my perl podcast app over at eScripting. This is the first thing I've put up there in a bunch of years. archive.org last shows a change in July of 2002. I'm using the URI::Fetch CPAN module that jim mentioned a few weeks ago.

My Windows Don't Block Smell

March 08, 2005 by Eric Richardson

CSI:NY is shooting in my alley today, which is fine. We got the notifications a couple days ago and they did a really good job of detailing what would be happening when. Here's the problem, though: right now they're grilling some really good smelling meat directly below my window. Delicious aromas are wafting in through my windows. That's just unfair.

Flexcar: A Full Weekend

March 07, 2005 by Eric Richardson

This weekend I actually used Flexcar quite a bit. Kathy's car is in the shop, so I first picked up car 6926 (which Flexcar's site at the moment lists as a mini-van... I assure you it isn't) on my way back from work Friday and we made our way over to the west side. Then Sunday I again got a car -- though this time car 6925, just for variety -- for church and errands. I'm really enjoying the Civic hybrid, and I finally noticed that the trip odometer would let me get a MPG number for my time in the car. Average MPG's for the two trips: 38.1 and 38.6. — Continue Reading...

Another Big Park

March 07, 2005 by Eric Richardson

This weekend I was introduced for the first time to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills. For a big city, Los Angeles keeps surprising me with these massive parks that you don't really understand the scale of until you're there. Griffith Park is amazing, and I've been there many times, but I had only driven by Kenneth Hahn SRA before Saturday. The site was home to the Olympic Village for the 1932 games, and then did some time as an oil field before the state bought the hilltop in 1983 and made it into a really nice looking park. There are pictures in my flickr gallery.