March 2007
51 posts
Scott Matthewman: @meri: Petrified? Why? It’s warm and fluffy compared to the horrors of Grease (which starts next week)… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Totally loving Saturday night telly now that both Doctor Who and Any Dream Will Do have started! (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Playing with Flash Maps API+Rails. Think I’ve found a cool (legal!) way round the prohibitive postcode licensing costs for UK geoloc work. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Struggling to write up my review of Total Eclipse… I want to be fair, but it’s all coming out aggresively negative at the mo… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Researching the lives of Verlaine and Rimbaud ahead of tonight’s play… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“The fact that there’s all these really messed-up people on the internet is...”
– Tim O’Reilly, commenting on Kathy Sierra’s predicament
Scott Matthewman: Hurrah! Two links from the Guardian to our blog today: both at http://tinyurl.com/2746po (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Developing a pathological hatred for apps that automatically install themselves in the MacOSX dock… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Looking forward to my first theatre review in ages tonight. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“It really doesn’t make much difference whether the person intends to act...”
– Kathy Sierra - ‘Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech”’
Scott Matthewman: Feeling curiously underwhelmed by everything, and for no particular reason. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Regretting tying my blog into Typo, which sucks big ones. May have to consider moving platforms again. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: The new series of Doctor Who ROCKS. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“Only 13% of the national random sample of people surveyed for the 2007 report...”
– Anemic growth for podcast listening - MarketWatch
Are they asking the right question? How you refer to technology will skew the results one way or the other. For example, if you asked UK households whether they used a DTT box, the number would be far lower than if you ask them if they have...
Scott Matthewman: Onto my Room 101 list: people tearing up paperwork while on the train. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Currently sitting on a horribly slow, diverted train (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Just got my invite for the Doctor Who press launch next week! Wahey! (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
I'm updating my oher blog right now...
For some reason, the upgrade from Typo 4.0.2 to Typo 4.1 isn’t going too well. I don’t know what the problem is, but it should be fixed soon, I hope!
Update: All fixed now.
Scott Matthewman: I’ve just seen my first female trainspotter. One for the I-Spy Book of Geeks. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Researching for my interview on Wed… By watching Dr Who! It’s a rum life. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“We believe that all the heavy lifting of geocoding, distance calculations, etc.,...”
– Geocoding as easy as 1-2… | opensoul.org. Shame that such useful stuff is North America only…
Scott Matthewman: Getting gently drunk. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Off to the first of two leaving parties in eight days. It’s all change here :-( (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“It’s not the old ways that need preserving but the journalism and its future.”
– Jeff Jarvis on the Guardian & Observer’s recent all-hands meetings
“Maybe actual cops were butcher than Sun Hill cops, but we had a lot of luvvies...”
– Trudie Goodwin interviewed about hanging up her truncheon as The Bill’s June Ackland
“It’s basically blogging reduced to what the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin...”
– disambiguity - Ambient Intimacy
Scott Matthewman: Billie’s understudy was v good. Kris Marshall and Laurence Fox excellent. Play? Meh. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Off to see Billie Piper in Treats at the Garrick. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“The best ever first 11 words of an article: “A group of five Chinese...”
– A Canadian in Sweden
Scott Matthewman: Thinking that we may actually deliver our new recruitment section ahead of time. The joys of having more than one webhead on the team! (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“For [Ann Coulter’s slur of “faggot”] to work, it must...”
– Andrew Sullivan
Scott Matthewman: Ordering various Skype add-ons to record a phone interview with (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“Audit your gems, people. Update specific gems when you need new features, and...”
– Evan Weaver
Twitter + Growl = Squawk! →
Scott Matthewman: Getting fed up with my mobile. I have to reboot it every time it goes out of coverage. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Fed up with a nose that can’t decide he it’s going to be bunged up or streaming… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Trying to put this GTD stuff into action. Just going through all the projects on my plate is scary. (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
“The reason [Yahoo! Maps] stands out from both their old interface and the...”
– Webreakstuff » Yahoo! wins in mapping user experience
“The free download concept isn’t a frivolous act. It’s a key part
of our...”
– O’Reilly Radar > “the free download isn’t a frivolous act”
Scott Matthewman: Psyched about who I may be interviewing for the podcast next week… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
Scott Matthewman: Amazed at how many PRs are anxious for you to cover their clients, but then never answer phone calls or emails… (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)
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Scott Matthewman: Getting frustrated at work with people who don’t understand that you can’t take a print-based business model, just slap it on the web and th (via Twitter / Scott Matthewman)