Tue, 26th May 2009 by Alfie.

I’m finally uploading my re-designed site!

I’ve been tinkering with new designs for over a year now; 2-column, 3-column, fluid columns, floating columns, faux columns, fixed footers, many boxes, rounded boxes, image borders, with/without scripts, etc, but there would always be one thing or another that either didn’t work the way that I wanted it to in a particular browser, or required too many hacks, or made ‘accessibility’ too awkward to manage, etc.

Eventually, I decided on this relatively ‘clean and simple’ 2-column layout. I hope that you like it.

If there are any pages which you used to visit that are currently missing from the re-design, then you can still find them under the Old Site section for the time being.

I’ll likely be tweaking the site over the next month until I’m truly happy with it if any of my previous site re-designs have been anything to go by

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Sat, 23rd May 2009 by Alfie.

I’ve started receiving bounces for undelivered mail that I haven’t sent. It seems it’s my turn to have my mail domain spoofed for e-mail harvesting spam again. The spam mails appear to all be in HTML format and claim to be in response to signing up to a newsletter.

If you don’t know, ’spoofing’ is forging the address to look like it comes from someone else that you’re more likely to trust, in this case my domain, ‘delphia.co.uk’. The mail was never sent by me, or from a user on my mailserver, as I don’t actually have a ‘delphia.co.uk’ mailserver. All my mail passes through an authenticated server on my host, 1&1, and legitimate mail from me starts it’s first hop at ‘mrelayeu.kundenserver.de’ (which you’ll see in the headers).

There is nothing much that can be done about spoofing, as anyone can currently fake the sender address in an e-mail. Until something like the Sender Policy Framework or an equivalent is used by the majority of the ‘net there is no way to know if a mail is from a legitimate source.

Related: Spam Trends.

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