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Archive for March, 2008

12 Mar, 2008

Google Analytics Comes To Your Desktop

Posted by: Matt In: Blogging| Internet| Tech

It’s not an official Google release but something like this should definitely be on their todo list. This tool, named Google Analytics Reporting Suite, is an Adobe Air application that brings your website’s statistics to your desktop. Coded by Nicholas over at AboutNico, Google Analytics Reporting Suite:
The Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to [...]

11 Mar, 2008

Gmail Spam

Posted by: Matt In: Internet| Tech

Usually Gmail’s spam filter is exemplary and I never even receive a whiff of Spam in my Inbox. Over the last two days however, one type of Spam has been circumventing the filter and very annoyingly making it’s way into the sacred zone of my Inbox.
The screenshot below shows what the message contains:

It is quite [...]

09 Mar, 2008

Driving Home For Christmas Sleepies

Posted by: Matt In: Car| Family| General

“Driving 500 miles in a day isn’t a problem, I’ll be fine.”
Yeah, bloody right.
Yesterday Katie and I jumped in her motor and drove over to my Nan’s, some 235 odd miles across the country. It had been planned for weeks and we had planned to leave the house by about half past five in the [...]

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07 Mar, 2008

Blogged

Posted by: Matt In: General

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Would anyone mind writing me a review?
If you would like to, please click here.
Thanking you in advance….
Emilio Esteban

07 Mar, 2008

I’ll Sack Them

Posted by: Matt In: Rant| Work

10pm last night, I am laying in bed dozing and dropping off to sleep. Im falling into a deep sleep just as my Matrix Revolutions ringtone blares out and scares the crap out of me. It’s a phone call from a private number. In these sort of situations, I think one of two things:

Someone in [...]

06 Mar, 2008

What The Bleep Do We Know

Posted by: Matt In: Religion

Filmed in Portland, Oregon, What the Bleep Do We Know blends a fictional story line, documentary-style discussion, and computer animation to present a viewpoint of the physical universe and human life within it, with connections to neuroscience and quantum physics. Some ideas discussed in the film are:

The universe is best seen as constructed from thought [...]

06 Mar, 2008

D’ya Like Dags?

Posted by: Matt In: General

It’s been a quiet week, both myself and Katie have been working and coming home just to slob out and relax into the evenings. The only bit of liveliness in the house has been the dog; Harry.
Harry is coming up for two years old and to use the term “loving” would be to use it [...]

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05 Mar, 2008

The US Elections

Posted by: Matt In: General

I have no idea how it would affect me or America but there is something about all these democratic candidates and the upcoming elections that I feel compelled to want Barack Obama to win.
I feel I could relate better to his policies, his policies on technology are forward thinking and I like that. Hilary Clinton [...]

04 Mar, 2008

The God Question

Posted by: Matt In: Religion

Something I have found myself pondering lately is the existence of God. Both myself and my fiancée Katie have been attending church for the last few months in order for us to be married in the parish and at the church we had chosen. As a result of this, we have been learning more and [...]

04 Mar, 2008

Loving This Advert

Posted by: Matt In: Videos

I saw this advert on E4 last night, had me in stitches:

For those of you who love the song, it’s called “I’m a Man” by the Spencer Davis Group.



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