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?

Don’t tease me with a splash or intro page unless you’re running an adult website. They serve no purpose other than wasting my time. Scale it down and add it as a feature on your home page. (screenshot)

There’s another one of those pointless yet hysterical emails going around with completely ludicrous claims:
In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of [...]

I’m paranoid when it comes to the Internet: email, surfing, downloads, shareware, everything. And I’m not exactly a newbie when it comes to anything computer related. Last night I scanned my system with LavaSoft’s Ad-Aware and discovered ClickSpring’s MediaTicketsInstaller lurking on my computer, proof that even I can get viruses and spyware on my home [...]

Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]

The following contains excerpts from (and is very much based on) an article by Noah Masterson that appeared in the online rag Rush Magazine way back in 2000.
I am easy to track down. Type my name into any search engine and you’ll find enough pages to choke a hippo. Try it: Google • MSN • [...]

Just because you have a knife doesn’t make you a surgeon. Just because you have a wrench doesn’t make you an auto mechanic. And, just because you have a computer, Photoshop, a lot of time on your hands, and an Internet connection doesn’t make you a web designer.