Archive for the ‘Pseudo-news’ Category

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release Party

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

If you're in SE Michigan and excited about the release of Hardy Heron, head out to Arbor Brewing Company (google map) this Saturday, April 26 for a release party. If you aren't in this area, no worries! There are parties being held all over the freaking place. Check this page to ...

Matt on… 2.5

Friday, April 4th, 2008

This blog is now running on Wordpress 2.5 with no major issues so far. A couple of my plugins aren't working, but no big deal. I'm sure they'll be updated in a timely fashion. So far, I'm pretty pleased with the new admin interface. It's pretty. I'll have to take some ...

Lunar Eclipse 2008

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I managed to force myself out into the cold long enough to watch the lunar eclipse and snap a few shots with my little Sony Cybershot. Unfortunately, I own a Sony Cybershot and the pictures didn't come out very well at all. Well, I don't care. I stood out in ...

Cyber-riot: The day after

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

The madness over at digg has died down and the users have triumphed. Yesterday, the site was taken over by folks upset at digg's attempt to remove stories that violated a C&D order. It was the goal of this C&D to stop the spread of a particular key that can ...

Finally! digg releases their API

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Today, digg announced the release of their new REST-based API. It looks pretty full-featured, though I haven't gotten much of a chance to play around with it yet. They have already provided Flash and PEAR toolkits for the API and are accepting submissions from users for additional language toolkits. Let's ...

mc chris owns. I want to go to an mc chris show.

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Hell yes! On saturday, I made the long haul from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, IN to see the one and only mc chris at Rhino's. It was my first time in the home of IU and I was pretty impressed on a superficial level. I didn't get to see enough ...

Halo Wars

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

A Halo RTS? No shit. Now I completely understand why MS wanted so badly to shut down the Halogen project. If you haven't heard of Halogen, it was an RTS based on the Halo universe that was being developed independantly by a group of Halo fans. Was being developed, of course, ...

Portals are fucking incredible

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

I thought that everyone had seen the following demo video for Portal by Valve already. If you haven't, take a look and just try to tell me that's not one of the coolest things you've ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3Qv2tHyfA Yes, yes. I know it's awesome.

Things you shouldn’t be doing in Rails

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Kevin Clark at Glu.ttono.us has an excellent article titled Thing you shouldn't be doing in Rails. If you are a Rails developer—beginner or advanced—you should give this a read. There are a couple interesting things in there that I wouldn't have thought of on my own such as (not) using ...

Anticipation so thick you can taste it

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

That's right, in less than 24 hours snakes will be on a plane and you'll be fucking helpless. I will personally be going to see this later in the evening tomorrow as I'll be busy the rest of the day. Maybe I'll make a t-shirt and bring a rubber snake ...