Ok, so now we call people terrorists and arrest them for buying a bunch of cell phones. Oh, and then talk about becoming more invasive of personal privacy [via]. Sheesh, what is the world coming too? Seeing as how terrorism is intended to create terror, and we’re becoming more paranoid every day… well - who’s [...]
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This Whole Terror Thing is Getting Ridiculous
by Matthew Smith · August 14th, 2006 · No Comments
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Update: Search Engine Rankings
by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Since the initial post, I have been keeping an eye the on results of the Google searches and have noticed a few changes. The search of main interest (for the overall site) is for Matthew Smith, as this is the most common way for friends to find the site. After a few re-indexings, digivation.net now [...]
AOL / Xdrive Planning to Offering Free Storage
by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Hot off BetaNews, Xdrive (owned by AOL) is planning to offer 5 Gb of free online storage starting in September. Sounds like it’s time for Google to get a move on with their “gDrive” service.
Origami?
by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
I ran across these nifty directions detailing the construction of an origami debit card holder. Kinda fun and simple way to spend a few minutes. Check it out! [via]
Ubuntu - Essential Font Rendering Trick
by Matthew Smith · August 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Just a quick little post to inform you of an essential (in my opinion) patch for Ubuntu 6.06 font rendering system. If you are used to MS ClearType and have switched to Ubuntu only to be disappointed by font rendering, fear not. Using this simple fix, I think that my fonts look better than Windows [...]
Server Trouble
by Matthew Smith · July 22nd, 2006 · No Comments
I apologize if you were unable to reach the site yesterday - it seems that my server was having a bit of trouble, apparently caused by a faulty motherboard. I’m up and running on fresh hardware, so all should be good now!
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Charles and Myself
by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Charles and Myself
Hosted on Zooomr
At a little gathering the other night, Charles decided to snap a few pictures. This is one of my favorites.
Edit: I was just thinking - Coke just got free advertising, right here on my blog…
Filling Up My Zooomr
by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2006 · No Comments
For those of you looking at Zooomr out of the corner of your eye (so to speak), let me invite you to check out my photo stream. I have been spent the evening uploading a few of the pictures on my laptop, but I won’t be able to upload the ones from my desktop, seeing [...]