Matt’s Journal

Question: Long Arm or Massive Wang?

Posted by Matt under Photos

Taken in the hotel lobby on holiday:

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Wordpress 2.5

Posted by Matt under Blogging

It’s out and installed on this blog. Head over to Wordpress.org and get your update.

Features include:

• Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
• Dashboard Widgets
• Multi-file upload with progress bar
• Bonus: EXIF extraction
• Search posts and pages
• Tag management
• Password strength meter
• Concurrent editing protection
• Few-click plugin upgrades
• Friendlier visual post editor
• Built-in galleries

The admin interface is fresh and more intuitive, I’m liking the new look.

They call me Matt Brian…I’m Back, I’m Back

Posted by Matt under Holiday

Yeah, im back from Lanzarote, I am sun kissed and healthy looking (don’t all be jealous). Myself and Katie had an amazing time, I will give a full report later.

For now, take a look at a picture from our week away.

The Milk of Human Kindness

Posted by Matt under Niceness, People

It’s not often I would title a blog post with a Macbeth quote but after a rather nice act of kindness from a stranger at the weekend, I have been compelled to use it.

Myself and Katie were in town looking to get a few bits for our holiday. We ventured into a jewellers and found the rings we wanted for our wedding, a very nice assistant making sure we got all we needed as we laid down quite a hefty sum of money.

Moving onto a shop called GAME, Katie wanted me to get Guitar Hero 3, so much so she bought it for me. As we came up to pay, a random guy paying on the till next to me asks me if I want his points, by this he means his GAME reward points. I was like YEAH! and duly gave him my card. Little did I know that the guy was buying a brand new Xbox 360, Guitar Hero 3 and three other games. The points total meant that I received £7.50 in points just from his transaction, meaning that in the future I can get games at a reduced price.

Who says that the art of giving is dead? It’s a shame I wasn’t able to return the favour!

Pownce

Posted by Matt under Blogging, Tech

No, I’m not going to ambush you as you walk home in the evening.

I am however talking about a web service I am trying out, you may even have seen the green logo to the right of this post. Pownce is:

Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.

Or in lehman’s terms, it’s a way to get your online friends together and leave messages and status updates instead of having to text/phone/email them. You could say it’s a Twitter clone. You could say I am marvellous but we all know I am not.

Click the link and come and add me as a friend, it sure beats going to and from each other’s blogs and leaving replies that nobody else knows what is about!

Off on Holiday

Posted by Matt under Leisure

In just three days, myself and Katie will be boarding a jetplane and not knowing when we shall be back again.

OK, we will be back in one week.

Lanzarote is the location and relaxing is the notion, we shall be leaving the wet, windy and grey skies of England for the sunny climbs of the Canary Islands. I am fortunate enough to have a lovely fiancée who wishes to take me on holiday, a holiday that I think that will help rid the stresses of work, taxes and annoying people from our minds.

Don’t even think about trying to break into my house and stealing anything, I have Harry* guarding the place and he’s equal to any threat you pose!

*Harry