Richard’s Ramblings

The company for which I work is in the information security business. You remember George Orwell’s 1984? The stuff created here is Big Brother v2006 and it’s freaking scary! The office computer is no longer your friend (assuming it ever was) and instead it’s purpose is to monitor everything — including printing, emailing, web surfing, [...]

We were lucky enough to acquire four tickets to the prescreening of Ice Age II: The Meltdown yesterday. Despite the fact that we had about ten minutes notice to get ready and head out (the movie started at 10:00 a.m., we received the tickets at 9:25 a.m., and the theatre was almost 20 minutes away [...]

Happy 4th anniversary to RR…!! This blog was first created in March of 2002 with Movable Type. Eventually, with the 3.0x versions, MT migrated to a pay-per-author structure and mandatory registration with TypePad. I became disillusioned with where the franchise was heading, thanks also to some other significant user interface changes that differed greatly from [...]

OK, this hasn’t hit any news wires yet. Remember, you heard it here first!! Cassie Johnson, the skip (captain) for the US Olympic curling team, got engaged while in Florence, Italy on February 28th to her boyfriend Corrie Potter! Considering they’ve been back to the US since Tuesday night, March 7th, I’m surprised the wires [...]

Almost two weeks have elapsed since the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Olympics and, thanks to my upgraded TiVo, I have the pleasure of knowing that 74 hours of Olympic coverage still await me during infrequent breaks in my schedule.
Yup, seventy-four hours!
And thanks to the “Save Until I Delete…” feature, I can relive some of [...]