Author Archives: matt

Why I haven’t switched to Chrome.

Posted on May 5, 2010 by matt

I like chrome, it’s a super fast little browser but it lacks one the most important features I have in Firefox, the Google toolbar. It even laughs at me when I go and try and install it from within the … Continue reading →

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A day with no iPhone.

Posted on April 23, 2010 by matt

It’s been a strange day today, my first without an iPhone for about 5 months. My life of being always connected has taken a bit of a hit so my first task to do was to get hooked back up. … Continue reading →

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Food Food Food

Posted on February 12, 2010 by matt

Between reading the Omnivores Dilema and watching Jamie Oliver talking about obesity, makes me really depressed about food. Anyway I’ve been ‘mostly’ vegetarian for 16 years, so I’m ok right Less falvoured milk in the world = good!

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The value of technology.

Posted on January 14, 2010 by matt

I had an email today giving me technology deals and one price caught my eye which you can see in the image to my right. I remember when these Palm devices were all the rage, I think I even had … Continue reading →

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Some Jobs are really not worth getting out of bed for!

Posted on January 11, 2010 by matt

Whilst it is probably a glitch, even in these recession fuelled times there are some jobs that should not be advertised. I’m sure that there might be a catch, maybe this job comes with a lifetime supply of free gold … Continue reading →

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New year new post.

Posted on January 10, 2010 by matt

It seems a while since I posted anything here, but I’m going to try and post at least once a month here about random stuff, if I’m good at anything it’s definitely random stuff! Anyway as I was a good … Continue reading →

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For one moment..

Posted on October 26, 2009 by matt

I often see headlines on the BBC News website that allows my mind to get ahead of my eyes. Take this one for example:   I realised the John Barnes was recently released from Tranmere and that he was a … Continue reading →

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The odd behaviour of Visual Web Developer 2008

Posted on October 4, 2009 by matt

Visual Web Developer Express 2008 is a nice piece of software. It allows you to do free development of ASP.NET web applications in the same excellent environment as Visual Studio. I am confused though how it thinks my developments will … Continue reading →

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I use TweetDeck because I am 1337….

Posted on September 9, 2009 by matt

I use TweetDeck for a number of reasons. 1) It’s good and does what I want. 2) It looks cool. 3) It’s British, go us! What I didn’t know that it was also 1337 to use it. I found a … Continue reading →

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PS3 Slim for win!

Posted on September 7, 2009 by matt

As part of any media setup the PS3 has always been one of the expensive toys that has dubious value especially in Europe with the lack of movie downloads. Whilst it has had DNLA playback from compatible devices (I have … Continue reading →

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