Matt's Journal

For the past two weeks Katie and I have been “surviving” without internet. By surviving, I was able to fix my neighbours wireless router in exchange for piggybacking on his connection (a warning for everyone else, don’t use a low WIFI channel when your router is next to a cordless phone).
The resulting connection, whilst [...]

You can’t go anywhere lately without anyone mentioning the Credit Crunch, it’s got to a point now where it’s being blamed for everything and I think it’s nothing more than just a convenient excuse.
Have you been affected by the credit crunch? I haven’t, yet. My place of employment still managed to get the same number [...]

Yesterday I was viewing my Twitter feed and catching up on any Tweets I had missed when I came across a few people mentioning a new service named Plurk. Thinking it was another social media aggregator, I scrolled on to read the rest of my feeds.
But then my curiosity got the better of me. Clicking [...]

You may have already noticed that I have rolled out a few feature updates. Let me tell you a bit about them.
1. OpenID Support
OpenID is an open standard that lets you sign in to other sites on the Web using little more than your personal URL. This means less usernames and passwords to remember and [...]

This post has actually nothing to do with anyone being dead. I had originally titled it “She’s Back” but then it reminded me of the awesome “The Office” clip posted above and rolled with the alternative.
Yes, indeed, Katie has returned to me in all her sun kissed beauty (lucky so-and-so). The two weeks in Gran [...]

At 3am on Monday morning, Katie and her parents departed for Gran Canaria. It’s a new experience for me being so far away from Katie, especially as the biggest distance we used to be from each other in the past was say 8 miles, when we both lived with our parents and we had to [...]