So the other day (the 11th) marked 3 years since I'd landed in sunny Dubai. Lots has happened - and apart from the being away from relatives and friends - and obviously, the long shadow of Covid-19 has impacted so much…
Technology
A lab, a workbench and look-out post. A documentation of Matt’s observational and experimental forays into the avoidance of doing himself any lasting damage with technology.
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3 years in Dubai, Tim Kobe- Guttenberg Editor
I'm trying out a new wordpress editor. It's a beta - set to replace the boiled in wordpress editor. The output (the bit you are reading now) will not look any different (in theory) but my writing experience is…
- Hack fixed! (*I think..)
I've finally identified and fixed the/a root cause of the hacked site problem I described in the last few posts. It seems that My site was hacked and a piece script was placed in the source code (near the footer) of…
- Still got big issues
I reported that I think this site had been hacked. It's still got issues - I got locked out for a while - back in the game now though. It seems that some nasty code has been injected into this site: ** DON'T PANIC **…
- Site hacked?
Mysterious things afoot. It looks like dragondrop has been hacked - some of the links around the site lead off to other websites. If you are a hacker attacking not for profit blogs like this, you should be ashamed of…
- Not @WalmartLabs any more
Yesterday, after 2 and a bit years, I left Asda / Walmart. My notice period was complete. Whilst I'm looking forward to the new challenge that lies ahead, leaving there was sad. My job was initially under the banner…
BMW Smart KeyIs the new key from BMW an amazing inflection point in everyday object design; something that will be the Godfather of all future car key design, or has it just started the countdown to us not needing car keys at all? I…
- UX Conversion Camp, Manchester next Thursday.
I've been invited to talk at ' UX Conversion Camp ' next Thursday. I attended last year, it was ace. A mix of UX, Business, Psychology, Usability, Accessibility, Ethnographics and cats. Weirdly, I didn't blog about it…
National Ace CentreWe did London last week. Our first trip away from the boys - they stayed at home whilst the girls and I (sans Elsie dog) went to London. I'll have more on that via the medium of film photography with a bit of luck. In…
Reasons.to.2016I've just attended Reasons.to. An "Award winning, international 3 day conference with a festival vibe" mostly single track conference set in the wonderful city of Brighton. Although I'm still processing the huge amount…
- GeoCities to Raspberry Pi
I'm just back from an (AMAZING) conference. More on that later - I'm writing a longer piece. In summary, mainly designers, coders and artists 3 day thing in Brighton. Anyway, Heart Internet were sponsoring the event and…
- UX LONDON 2016.3
Day 2 for me, day 3 for the conference (I nearly called it a festival then) and I was fully switched into learning mode. After the afore mentioned 'Full English' breakfast (sans black pudding) I used the UX chair lift…
- UX LONDON 2016.2
Seb Lee-Delisle joked last night, in the day two closing event (where he turned the whole audience into a band using glow-sticks, after we'd all played a game of giant laser drawn flappy bird where we, the crowd,…
- I'm currently 36023 feet above Greenland
This reminds me of how amazed I was the first time I managed to photo blog to DragonDrop.org without the use of a cable attaching my keyboard to a wall somehow. 13 years ago, I 'field blogged a photo' (from an actual…
- Well Hello There (not recovered)
At the time of writing these words (2026), the original copy for this page, along with a handful of others (less than 30 from a total of 2,438 posts) for some inexplicable reason, has been lost to the mists of time.…