Dr. Matt Lee's Close Personal Friends

Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1

April 13, 2006

What is the Colour Contrast Analyser? It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good...

Rails 1.1 is out!

March 29, 2006

So Rails 1.1 is out. I’ve spent the morning upgrading my development environment (Mac OS X still – the dual boot is coming real soon now) to Rails 1.1, and...

The Tom Report

March 16, 2006

The first in a series of consumer reports by Tom – Twaddle’s very own investigative reporter.

Two important images

March 15, 2006

These are the covers for my books. What books? Well, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll soon be releasing my first book, ‘XHTML and CSS: How to be happier...

New directions

March 14, 2006

I like this image. It reminds me at times that I don’t have to keep on doing what I’ve been doing. I don’t have to keep on feeling bad about the same people,...

Shaunland – an average place to live!

February 27, 2006

Shaunland – an average place to live! Shaunland is a principality within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a very small country, with a...

SNES – As Good As It's Going to Get?

February 24, 2006

Cool article on why the SNES is the best console ever. Face it, it’s true! Make sure to check out the forum link at the end of the article, awesome thread.

Jack Ruby – an Ruby library for JACK

February 22, 2006

Jack Ruby An AJAX fronted, MySQL based internet protocol library for JACK (Low latency audio server) for Ruby on Rails

Yarrwin!

February 22, 2006

Yarrwin – The OS for pirates The Yarrwin project was created to make it easier for developers and distributers to use Apple’s Darwin source code in their...

Freedom's Standard Advanced?

February 22, 2006

Freedom’s Standard Advanced? Creative Commons (CC) advocates such as Lawrence Lessig have become fixtures on panels discussing Free Libre and Open Source...

CNUK relaunch!

February 19, 2006

CNUK – create. share. be free – free culture and free software for everyone When we refer to free culture and free software, we’re talking of a matter of...

Buy some art!

February 14, 2006

Zhanna Gumerova lives and works in moscow, where she studied photography and design at the Moscow Printing-Trades Institute. She has worked for the past...

Hoare For Sale

February 14, 2006

Hoare For Sale I’ve asked unemployable wretch Johnny Hoare to keep a weblog of his life. He’s doing it.

He had milk on his lips!

February 13, 2006

This one is great… A Tanzanian mother went into hysterics when she found her six-month-old baby suckling on a dog.She had left the boy on a mat while she...

Glasgow Subway Challenge

February 11, 2006

You are on the Glasgow underground (subway), travelling clock-wise. The journey time between Buchanan St. and St. Enoch is approximately 55 seconds. Hmmm. On...

You have to see this…

February 11, 2006

IEEE Spectrum (engineering magazine) ran a story in February, reviewing telecommunications development in Africa, with a big section on Nigeria. The writer...

Victim's concern over 'odd e-fit'

February 10, 2006

Victim’s concern over ‘odd e-fit’ A crime victim has criticised a police e-fit of a suspect saying although the thief had an unusual appearance he “didn’t...

tea with steveo

February 9, 2006

In case anyone was wondering what the creative minds behinds a sitcom in which people argue about whether films have dogs in, look like, here’s a lovely...

Dog Challenge

February 9, 2006

Help prove the legitimacy of a line from my sitcom pilot. “All films, set on the land, on Earth, not in space, or in the air or sea, have a dog in them.” –...

St Skeletor's Day 2006

February 7, 2006

Just a quick heads up for all of you who will be celebrating St Skeletor’s Day on Feb 15th. Events planned so far:- I will be eating a massive skull shape of...

I fucking love GStreamer!

February 7, 2006

If you don’t get it, you never will. Not that its important.

No Love for Google?

February 6, 2006

For those that are angered/outraged by Google’s policy in China, here’s your opportunity to express these feelings and pledge to boycott on V-day:...

Switcher update

February 6, 2006

An update on my progress, of switching to GNU/Linux… I now have a really stable machine, I had a few problems with the internal sound causing the machine to...

Bear Strength

February 6, 2006

Received this in my email, it refers to the text on the front of my website… I am the fastest human being alive, and can definitely fight a bear, but I...

On this Day 9 Years Ago…

February 6, 2006

On this Day 9 Years Ago – Apple Completes Purchase of NeXT Computer The year is 1985 and Steve Jobs is in trouble, after hiring Sculley as new CEO of Apple...

Fixed my X Corruption

January 27, 2006

Turns out the problem only happens when you have a background image. (Thanks to cafuego on #ubuntu for that one)

Testing…

January 27, 2006

…so, this is my first post from GNU/Linux. I’m using an app called ‘Blog Entry Poster’ – it comes with GNOME. Today, I backed up all my stuff to my external...

Switcher tales

January 25, 2006

So, I’m switching to GNU/Linux. This is my initial post. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve already decided that I need to do it all out – nothing non-...

Keynote Reader… in JavaScript

January 25, 2006

Keynote Reader… in JavaScript

How to quickly do authentication with login generator

January 18, 2006

This is how to make really functional, quick, login controllers and do authentication in Rails.

Zope versus Rails

January 18, 2006

On his blog, Ivan Krstic talks about the fact that Ruby is making headway on the web, in a way that Python never managed. …if you’re writing a Python web...

Web 3.0

January 17, 2006

Web 3.0 by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Optimizing Rails Resource Usage

January 16, 2006

TextDrive Weblog has some useful information on running Rails in a production environment.

Rails: Progress

January 15, 2006

I’ve been hacking on this to-do list app written in Rails. It’s a good example of the kind of thing I can start doing with Rails, I hope to have some better...

iTunes is spyware?

January 11, 2006

Boing Boing: iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple? A new version of Apple’s iTunes for Mac appears to communicate information about...

making a better cms

January 9, 2006

jeffrey veen – making a better cms

Avoid paying crazy money for specs..

January 3, 2006

How to avoid the UK glasses rip-off: 1. Get an eye test at a high street optician 2. Buy online, using your prescription 3. Receive your glasses Update: Had...

Elitist Slashdot Circle

January 3, 2006

And here we all are…

We Drink Ritalin

January 3, 2006

Requires Flash and a high tolerance to flashing crap (also courtesy of Ruairi – A wiki of animutation, if you’re into this kind of crap. I am!)

25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming

January 1, 2006

Includes such classics as the Jaguar, and the Intellivision keyboard.

MAN DATES GAL ON INTERNET FOR SIX MONTHS – AND IT TURNS OUT SHE'S HIS MOTHER!

January 1, 2006

Story – I think we’ve all been there. Well, those of us from Norwich (basically Mark)

Ten Rules for Web Startups

January 1, 2006

evhead has Ten Rules for Web Startups

Welcome to 2006!

December 31, 2005

It’s going to be an exciting new year. The news, though it’s not live on the site yet, is that CNUK is going to take on another task. We’re going to do free...

PodReader Project

December 28, 2005

PodReader, a handy little free software application distributed under the GPL that makes reading electronic documents easy and fun for your 3G or newer iPod....

My response to all this Web 2.0 is going to save the world blah blah blah…

December 12, 2005

Want to put it on your own blog? Do whatever the hell you want with it, really. (In all fairness to Tim O’Reilly, it’s not his fault at all. He’s selling...

Another "oh, duh� moment

December 12, 2005

You’ve got some things and they belong in a category… class Thing

Ten Golden Rules

December 11, 2005

Google: Ten Golden Rules – Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here’s how we do it at...

Really Getting Started in Rails

December 8, 2005

Really Getting Started in Rails: “Really Getting Started in Rails” Rails stuff is starting to take shape in my head. I want to make a basic forum, kind of...

Ruby on Rails on Rails

December 7, 2005

So, I’m fast learning Ruby on Rails (whilst trying to keep the OMFGBBQTHX meter to a low – trying hard to not AJAX/tag everything) – it’s coming along well....

Boing Boing: Unintentional faces in manufactured objects

November 28, 2005

Boing Boing: Unintentional faces in manufactured objects: “Unintentional faces in manufactured objects According to Wikipedia, pareidolia is ‘a psychological...