http://www.matt-j.co.uk Life, Tech and intravenous caffeine. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:50:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en *Rant Warning* Since moving into my new house last week, I have been spending a fair amount of time in the lounge, on the questionably comfy sofa's in front of the TV with my laptop, and today, between the countless (but enjoyable nevertheless) reruns of Top Gear on Dave, something irritated ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/07/21/zero-to-giving-it-guys-a-bad-name-in-one-commercial/ Evening all, Over a month since my last post, and a lot has happened; however, There is a simple reason why I have not posted for so long; This was always meant to be a technical blog, covering cool stuff I have been working with or pondering, or a place to write ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/07/21/life-updates-and-blog-directions/ Through the miracles of Slashdot I noticed this today: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece If it works (and it looks like it does) this could be such good news longterm for our stupid petrol prices... ..Or maybe that's just me being a temporary idealist, and the government will use this as an excuse to up the duty ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/06/16/gm-bugs-create-crude-oil/ Hello hello, Long time since my last real post, but things have been busy. Coming to my last few weeks at Sun now and hoping that I can continue my employment with them while at university next year through the campus ambassador scheme. In more current news, for my final training course ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/06/14/rhce-certification/ Hello there! Some interesting news, this website is being dDoS'd by some internet tosspot somewhere and has been up and down like a yoyo for the past few days. As it is not a continuous attack, it is a little harder to track and work out an exact pattern/root cause, that ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/06/02/website-downtime/ Evening people! I have been running ubuntu 8.04 on my main system since the alpha releases (And what a stable alpha it was to be fair). It was quite fun to watch your OS develop around you day by day, with sometimes hundreds of package updates from one day to the ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/04/24/pulseaudio-and-ubuntu-804/ A while ago, our boss Paul ordered some 'Sun Spots', Tiny little programmable devices running java off a 180Mhz ARM Processor with 4M of flash memory. They arrived today! and are damn cool! None of us have had a real play with them yet, but it seems you get two full ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/04/21/sun-spots/ Is it just me, or does each new linux flash player update break youtube and general firefox/flash stability a little more? Stop with the extra features and just fix the damn bugs! ffs! </annoyed_rant> http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/04/20/todays-2am-thaught/ I have wheels again!!! Back in the south now, with a damn nice metallic black 1.8 focus zetec. Just been to halfords to pick up a couple of bits to mend some minor niggles: Whoever installed the sony cd/mp3 player didnt have the ford antenna converter, and so used a crappy peice of ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/04/15/car/ Placement Presnetation Originally uploaded by TrX07 Hello from the sunny north! Came home for a few days to do a placement presentation to first and second year students on my course. The student's and tutors then mark these presentations (Done by every student ... http://www.matt-j.co.uk/2008/04/11/placement-presnetation/