Spam, spam, spam.

I’ve been deluged with it of late. The scumbags that masquerade as SOEs have been using my contact form to send me useless links to useless sites. I’ve been slowly tightening the restrictions on what could be sent via that form; first I banned BBCode, then I was forced to ban web site [...]

This poor blog has been languishing, unloved and untouched, for quite a while now. A lot of things have changed since I last posted, and I’ve finally decided it’s time to pull my finger out and start updating the site again. I realise not many people (if any) actually read this blog, but it’s [...]

I have been really busy lately, and have generated a lot of new illustrations that I am pretty pleased with. I’ve added samples of some of this new work to my portfolio. There is still a fair bit of new stuff to be added, but I’m waiting for clearance from the client before I publish [...]

After been nominated at the start of the month, The BBC Indus Valley site has made the shortlist of Finalists for a Digital Media Award.

I am very pleased to say that I have been invited to attend the award ceremony with the members of the BBC production team who worked on the site. This is [...]

The BBC Indus Valley site that I provided the illustrations for in March 2005 has been nominated for a Digital Media award.

    The first ever Digital Media Awards launched in Dublin in January 2003. The objective of the event was to raise awareness of [...]

After reading about the silktide sitescore tool on Nitallica’s blog, I put this site to the test. It fares pretty well, getting the maximum score for accessibility and design, and scoring a respectable 8.5 out of 10 overall.

What brings the score down is my lack of visitor votes (hint, hint). If you would like to [...]

For the few folks who frequent my forums, you may have noticed that the Open Discussions sections have been removed. Now all the forums require registration to be able to post comments.

This move has been forced on me by the continuous abuse of the forums by spammers, who post link laden comments in an attempt [...]

I have just created my first application for Mac OS X. It is a simple AppleScript application that creates a Growl notification every 15 minutes to remind you to save your progress while working.

Find out more about OughtoSave.

Terry at To The Point Software has released an update to his excellent font browser The Fontz. I recently created a new icon for The Fontz, and I am far too excited at seeing my name mentioned in the release notes:

v4.3.3

new program icon by Richard Smith fixed bug that occurred when trashing an uninstalled font some toolbar [...]

Okay, I think I’ve added all the images and animations that I need to, so I’ve reset all the “view” counters so that they aren’t distorted by my own editing and browsing. I’ve used this opportunity to add new things, and omit some stuff that either isn’t relevant or is similar to other material. It’s [...]