Dr. Matt Lee's Close Personal Friends

DUB – DENIM

November 19, 2005

DUB – DENIM: “DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different...

No Sweat Apparel

November 18, 2005

Bienestar International manufactures union-made footwear & casual clothing under the brand name No Sweat. Our gear is produced by independent trade union...

"We are the birds of freedom�, said Apple Jack and Ready Eddie

November 17, 2005

Remember Apple Jacks? Remember Ready Eddie from the Ready Brek? I want to hear from you.

Web 2 point eh?

November 17, 2005

There’s been an awful lot of talk about Web 2.0 lately. I’ve been reading Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0? – Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next...

Debian Sarge/Apache 2/Subversion

November 17, 2005

Spent some time putting Subversion behind Apache 2 (with SSL, self signed cert) today, thanks largely to a great little HOWTO from Sean O’Donnell. As the...

Lispbox: for OS X

November 17, 2005

Lispbox “The purpose of Lispbox (and Lisp in a Box) is to get you up and running in a good Lisp environment as quickly as possible. When you start Lispbox it...

Google Analytics

November 17, 2005

Started using Google Analytics to try and work out who comes to CNUK, and what they’re using. We’ve been lucky, traditionally, attracting a strong Macintosh...

FogCreek Project Aardvark DVD Goes on Sale

November 17, 2005

Joel on Software: “Aardvark’d DVD Goes on Sale” Ordered this earlier in the week.

Feeling a little better

November 16, 2005

Took most of the day for me to get there, though. Spent most of the day on the sofa, watching TV and drinking lemony things.. went into the office at 5pm to...

Youth Culture Killed My Dog

November 15, 2005

Okay, that didn’t happen. I’ve just been ill, again. Went to the office yesterday, but was told by pretty much everyone to not come in today. A good idea, as...

First steps…

November 15, 2005

“Everything right is wrong again” said They Might Be Giants. Not so, here. For some reason, I always seem to return to the things I think I can replace....

OpenOffice.org Beta

April 11, 2003

I have been using this for a few days now, as a tool, more than a proper word processor… I don’t do much worse processing anyway, as I prefer to write...

I am back

April 9, 2003

I’m back. Haven’t posted to this for such a long time! I am fine, pay and grading might just well have surprised me beyond my wildest expectations, work is...

Gotta love bash

April 3, 2003

gotta love bash scripts… i=0; while ((i i am much happier today. today i walked in the park.

The Tandem Drinking Club

March 28, 2003

The Tandem Drinking Club. My email to them. Dave, I found your drinking club on the web… I can tell you guys are in England, but where? Do you have any way...

Not dead

March 11, 2003

not dead… I really am not dead, despite what you may think. In fact, I’m very much here. Still working on my play, still working on my stuff… just forgetting...

The Fear

March 11, 2003

The Fear. Well, today I feel a whole lot more relaxed about things here, and it looks like we will be getting around 2 grand from all of this, which will...

A Web Service of the Highest Order

March 10, 2003

That’s how my favelet for querying our internal library was described today. Amazingly this comment actually seemed to make my day feel a bit better,...

Less than I'd expected

March 10, 2003

It gets better. It looks like it might be far far less than 2 grand now. It might be as low as 600 quid.

Tornado Is Live

February 26, 2003

As of about 4pm yesterday, tornado went live internally. Anyone with a connection to NHSnet should have no problems accessing it – the next step is the World...

Safari .62 leaked…

February 24, 2003

It has tabbed browsing, i can’t wait to get to play with it.

Jim is a moaning bastard

February 23, 2003

Jim is moaning about me and my lacking of updates. the bastard.

The IAMC

February 21, 2003

Today is my first day in the office since Tuesday morning, no major problems, and a bit of positive news on the blogging front. It’s good that we have...

The Meeting

February 9, 2003

Today is the big blogging meeting at work – i have an awful lot of stuff to suggest. i just hope it goes okay.

More testing

February 3, 2003

Tornado testing is going well… i’m working on a bunch of bits and pieces to tidy up some loose ends.

Have a cold

February 3, 2003

I have a really really awful cold today, which sucks. tidying up little bits of code i need to finish for various projects, and working on a little surprise...

Hello Tornado

January 31, 2003

So tornado went live at work. It’s currently being used by a bunch of people i can call ‘geeks’ (in the good sense) – a lot of them are pro GNU. Lovely.

Microsoft fails Slammer's security test

January 28, 2003

Microsoft fails Slammer’s security test. – Seems that Microsoft failed to secure some of it’s own servers when a worm designed to exploit a flaw in Microsoft...

Sacked for blogging (not me)

January 28, 2003

The Register reports on a man being “sacked for blogging”

Chicago

January 26, 2003

i need to raise £400 to goto Chicago.

Busy

January 26, 2003

At last! Someone with as many projects as myself!

Declawing Cats

January 23, 2003

blogs, forums and declawing cats. an article for words i’ve just written. january 2003 marks the anniversary of some discussion forums on the intranet,...

Ill

January 23, 2003

wound up being ill yesterday.

Favelets

January 21, 2003

blogs/wikis/favelets. spent the day hacking on some database code i wrote last week… also, had a little idea that it would be very cool if we combined...

Blogger is broken?

January 21, 2003

blogger is broken. keep getting strange error messages when trying to publish. myBlog (my own blogging tool) will be finished soon I hope.

NHSBlog

January 21, 2003

Had some ideas about internal blogging, and how we can expect it all to work. very simply users would log into an interface similar to blogger, and their...

Kellogs replied

January 20, 2003

Kelloggs replied. Last week, I posted the following question on Kelloggs Customer Care website. “I was just wondering if you could tell me why there is no...

BlogBuddy

January 20, 2003

blogBuddy. testing blogBuddy as an alternative to using blogger.com – let’s see if this works. it seems like some of the blogger tools that i use at home… it...

Blog, blog, blog

January 20, 2003

It’s monday morning, i’ve spent virtually the entire weekend reading my o’reilly blogging book, playing with blogger, playing my blogging engine, installing...

Not working in IE?

January 17, 2003

Apologies to some of you. i realised this page doesn’t quite look right in a non-compliant browser (grr) – if you’re using IE, accept my sympathy, offer you...

Ellie and I broke up

January 15, 2003

If i’m entirely honest, it had been coming for a while, i just don’t think i’m quite cut out for being on my own again. tomorrow is a new day, and it’s a day...

Maurice Gibb Dies

January 12, 2003

As we all get older, we’re going to see so many more people that we grew up with die… sadly, we’re going to live in a world where the recycled, manufactured...

Microsoft Watch

January 11, 2003

I see Microsoft are releasing a watch that can track where you are in the world… you’d think if you really didn’t know, you’d just ask the lady in the post...

Safari is out

January 10, 2003

safari is out. it’s Apple’s new web browser, and over the coming days and weeks, I will be posting my diary using and about this new technology.

iCal FTP

October 15, 2002

iCal FTP Use iCal without .Mac

Matt Vs Proprietary Formats

October 1, 2002

Well, the no-Word-documents-thing was going really really well, but apparently change is too much for some people, so we’re going back to having Word...

Office XP or OpenOffice.org?

September 26, 2002

Office XP – More bloat per dollar. Having far too many problems with converting Word XP documents (urgh!) to Rich Text Format (which is meant to be a...

VNC

September 18, 2002

Trying to get IT to okay the use of VNC or in this case TightVNC – an Enchanced VNC distro. Performance has increased about 8 fold when testing it, which...

Compuserve

September 16, 2002

NHS Information Authority – e-GIF: Help Using this Website – CompuServe users will probably find it quicker to download the software from the Adobe Forum (GO...

Apple Newton Webserver

September 13, 2002

Found this webserver running on an Apple Newton – This server runs on 4 AA batteries, in only 10K of heap on a 162MHz StrongARM SA-110 RISC processor, using...