Richard’s Ramblings

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!

This blog was crippled last week by a hacker using a known SQL injection exploit. Most likely, all that pain and suffering I went through during restoration could have avoided if I’d followed three simple procedures.

Here’s a concoction I whipped together — a quick light lunch for the whole family, ready in about half an hour. Think of it as an oven-baked, gourmet Hot Pocket on the much healthier side.

When hackers from (or at least through) China brought this website crashing to its knees earlier this week, I learned a valuable lesson: Keep up with patches to popular web applications.