Eric Richardson lives in Los Angeles, California, and is generally interested in the intersection between technology, community and news.

After founding hyperlocal news site blogdowntown and working in public radio, today he works on pattern-based analytics applications for Emcien.

Archives for January 2001

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lyx

January 30, 2001 by Eric Richardson

I just installed a new version of Lyx (my word processor of choice) and found that it now supports rcs version control. That's awesome. While I doubt I'll see much of a market for side-by-side diffs of English papers, it's awesome to be able to see the evolution of a doc.

intercourse

January 29, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So apparently someone found the verbal intercourse section of this site searching for intercourse on excite. I find that funny. I should check out some other search engines for that...

Danielson Famile

January 28, 2001 by Eric Richardson

(reposted from temp home page) What's up with the fact that I'm seeing the Danielson Famile in fairly mainstream places these days? This time it's on spin.com. Freaky. I saw two of their videos on rolling stone's site not too long back, too. "Sing it to yourself now..."

a little speedup

January 28, 2001 by Eric Richardson

This should help things out some. Click if you care to know the specifics of what I did. — Continue Reading...

back, sort of

January 28, 2001 by Eric Richardson

So the first thing you'll notice here is that loading stuff from this part of the site right now is going to be pretty slow. I realize this, and I'm working on it. Basically you're getting content delivered from a slow line in Michigan by way of a stop in California. I need to optimize the db calls so that we spend as little time in MI as possible.