Richard’s Ramblings

It’s been a while since I’ve poked fun at some of the search terms folks have used to find this website. Why stop now?

Unless they arrange travel for others or travel a lot themselves, most people tend to assume that all airlines ticket websites are created equal — all showing the same availability and fares. Not so.

Getting rid of outdated $NTUninstall information from your main Windows directory can free up several hundred megabytes of disk space. Do it wrong and you can confuse your OS.

A woman decides she’s a man, changes her mind, and later gets pregnant. Hardly a miracle. Yet the media is all over it. What’s the deal with that?

For no particular reason, I’ve come up with a lengthy list of rather amusing insults — most scrounged from around the Internet, but I’ve added a few of my own to the mix as well.

Ready for yet another variation of the Nigerian money-transfer fraud (aka “419″ or advance fee) scam? This one’s giving out government-approved ATM cards.

Unfortunately, I have to interview a lot of candidates that have somehow gotten through the apparently inept first-line screeners. Most of these candidates are complete idiots.

Since all my bills are automatically paid by an electronic clearinghouse every month, I was surprised to get a disconnection notice from AT&T — to which, of course, I took a significant amount of umbrage.

I am offering a $1,000 reward to any reader who successfully adopts a Ukrainian girl. I am also offering $500 to the referring website. Find out how to get some cash!

With only eight more episodes of EastEnders to go this season, there’s still a lot of excitement to look forward to in fictional Walford.

Unlike in the past, I have recently started to keep on eye on this site’s Alexa ranking, and have noticed some significant and surprising movement.

On a whim, I upgraded my browser at work to Firefox v3.0 Beta 2. All my valued, trusted add-ons stopped working. Ðámn, hadn’t thought of that!