Richard’s Ramblings

Welcome to the newly re-re-re-designed Richard’s Ramblings! The blog has seen quite a bit of upheaval in 2007 with three different designs, perhaps mirroring the unsettled psyche of its creator (me!). The year isn’t even over, so perhaps even more surprises are yet to come!
It didn’t start out so schizoid, though!
With the first pages of [...]

Meet Gina, this weekend’s creation.
She was a terrific incentive to introduce my new Wacom graphics tablet to my now-obsolete Adobe Illustrator CS2. Having been digitized, she finally gets to live somewhere besides my whiteboard at work.

Spent much of the afternoon trying to find a useful domain name to register, but everything remotely interesting (and a slew of uninspired ones) already seems to be taken.

Another 24-hour project from Warcraft’s Azeroth Film Institute (or, more precisely, me!)

Today’s spammers, viruses, emailbots, and spoofers can forge enough information within an email to obfuscate its origin from the average casual recipient.
However, the rest of the header information in emails can be used successfully to track their source if you know where to look. While Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used when [...]