My boy Felix created this almost exactly 6 years ago to the day. It's one of the 'why do you do this blogging thing?' answers. I love making stuff and I love the stuff I'm making. The notion of creating, gives me a…
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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File management is the new Rock n Roll
Bagged a bargainSo - this keyboard (an eKit Bluetooth Keyboard) feels great to type on. Being a trained (but bad habited) touch typist, I'm quite fussy about keyboards. I'm currently reposing in bed, typing this blog on the new…
The demise of facebook?The (genius/mentor/funny) man, who I worked for in the late 90s had a phrase that went along the lines of; "If you spot a gold-rush, don't scrabble about in the dirt, sell shovels.". The now infamous 'dot com boom' was…
- Bandwidth Exceeded
Earlier today, if you went to DragonDrop.org you'll have got an ugly message telling you that bandwidth had been exceeded and that the site owner may have gone over his/her bandwidth allowance. I'm pretty sure I've not…
New Adventures in Web Design 2013[ I'm going to dive straight into this whilst it's still very fresh in my head.. The short version : New Adventures in Web Design was a brilliant. The slightly* longer version: I see web people. 400 of them in Albert…
- Way back when...
[[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2003/2003-01-15-204|As this blog post reports]], my son Felix started school 10 years ago today. He's changed a fair bit since this blogs started. So has pretty much everything…
Procrastination Elf and the Final VersionAbout 3 years ago, [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2010/2010-01-31-id-become-curious-with-the-phrase-life-hacking|I'd become curious with the phrase 'Life Hacking']]. My life is pretty full, what with nearly 4…
- keys
Stood in Currys PC world type shop testing out a bluetooth keyboard. I'm thinking about tooling up so field blogging isn't a fiddly affair of phone screen based keyboard. Have to say I'm not mega impressed with this…
What are you looking at?...I'm reasonably confident its a screen of sorts, but I read this earlier, and it got me thinking; "According to Google, 85 percent of online shoppers start searching on one device — most often a mobile phone — and…
DragonDrop's Den idea #1Ooh, that's a bright idea. If you asked someone who knows how to pitch an idea for tips, they may say "get them nodding - ask them a definite YES question first". Here goes.. You know how it rains a lot in the British…
Uship reviewuShip potential customers - beware. We recently contacted a service provider through a service called uShip . The concept of Uship seemed really good - a real dragons den of an idea - in essence, service providers…
Elsie is 1 and storifyIt's this beautiful girl's 1st birthday today. I shot this, this morning (the photo - not the dog). I've discovered this great little tool called Storify. I've used to to build a story of Elsie's first year. It's kind…
I bought a typewriterUnlike these words that I type here, on a modern keyboard that's plumbed directly into the internet, the words on the picture above were typed with ink. On a bit of actual paper. There's no cut copy paste. No shortcuts,…
Out with the old, in with the newI've spent a lot of today updating the skin of this website. The old design (screenshot above) was still looking good in my humble opinion, but there were bits of it that were old hat. I'd come across a fantastic new…
- Left to my own devices..
Well - I've got an Elsie dog to keep me company, but Eirene and the kids have gone to Dublin for the week. Party out in the sticks was the main event of my weekend. A lovely bash with food n dogs n kids n bands n DJs.…