So I've gotten hooked on (yet another) social network. Instagram. I love taking photos and have often invested unhealthy volumes of time experimenting and attempting to make photos look different - eg…
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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The Sun has got his hat onIt's been a cracking few days for sun. Possibly the sunniest March I can ever remember. Note to self - scoot back over the last 10 years archives and see if there's a sunnier memory stashed away. I'ts fairly likely that…
Site back upPleased to report that DragonDrop.org is again fully operational after its server completely died. It's now been moved to a new server and restored from backups. Thanks to my ace cousin who stayed up most of a whole…
Atomic Jam reminded me that I ♥ TechnoAt the weekend Eirene and I along with a collective of 10+ other people convened in Birmingham to join several thousand other people in The Q Club for the last ever Atomic Jam there. Back in the mid 90's, Eirene and I…
- Super Spam!
Blog owners will know that occasionally, you get spammed. The basic premise is that if a site has link in to it, it makes it seem better in the eyes of the almighty google, therefore increases its ranking in search…
Flickr android app test shotFlickr android app test shot , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . Flickr android app test shot. Yahoo has FINALLY got round to releasing an android app for flickr. So far, so good.
The end of an era"Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, it's place in history secured, the Space Shuttle pulls into port for the last time, it's voyage... at an end." These were the words spoken by the…
Bernie on the Lee Mack showI'll pad more info into this post shortly - all I really know for now is that on Tuesday, Bernie Cook (an inventor) took a DragonDrop adventure t-shirt to Pinewood Studios London to feature on the Lee Mack show. Not…
Harrogate International Festival CinemaCasablanca , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . You must remember this scene from Casablanca.. ? no? It was 8pm, Sunday evening in Harrogate. Daren, aka @paint_Monkey defined the moment by taking the Cuban bit by the…
- Facebook comment integration testing..
Playing with the idea of integrating comments - it seems that most people comment on my blogs / posts etc. inside facebook so I may as well try and integrate it into the site (thought I). This is a bit of a test post to…
Test blog / new phone, meet dragondrop.orgQuick test blog using the wordpress android app on my new phone (Google nexus s) . This was a test photo I took in the shop. Stunning phone so far. Superbly designed. Only slight gripe is that its has a weak wifi…
- :( Site Down. Back now :)
For a large part of the 3rd March, until around 0413GMT this morning, DragonDrop was down. A router had popped in London apparently knocking this (and a whole bunch of other websites) off line for most of Thursday 3rd…
Conor at CERNConor at the door to The Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva March 2011 Man of science, good friend of DragonDrop Conor visited CERN and took a DragonDrop Adventure T with him. This is him stood outside the door to The…
KindleSince Christmas, nearly all of my downtime has been in the company of one of these - an Amazon Kindle. A few people I've spoken too have seen the kindle as a threat to 'the book'. Perhaps it is. Would that be the end of…
- Keyboard free blogging experiment
So I'm sat round out our friends are invited round the dinner and I was handed a device called and Ipad with I was playing later noticed there was a thing on it called dragon diction which is what I'm using now to…