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Archive for January, 2005

A woo hoo hoo

I’ve been found by the comment spammers! Woop woop! I assume you peeps aren’t interested in Texas Hold ‘Em games and penis enlargements? Well let me know.

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Propellors?

Anyone need a propellor or two? Google thinks that’s a good thing to advertise on this site. (Of course, me mentioning it in a post probably isn’t the best idea as it’s only likely to add to the density of it all, and make it do it even more. Hmm.)

The cricket (cricket cricket cricket) ads were better! Bring them back!

(Cricket).

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What a turnaround

OK, I take some of it back. I still maintain we can’t beat Australia, but we can play some good cricket when we want to. And to win this 4th test match from basically nowhere is an absolute result. Full respect to Marcus Trescothick and Matthew Hoggard* who unquestionably turned this “gonna-be-a-draw” match and won it for us. Woop woop.

Quite why it wasn’t on Test Match Special I have no idea. It’s bloody ridiculous that there was zero way I could be involved in this victory, except for “watching” it on the BBC website ball-by-ball update.

But still. Good win boys! Let’s win the series…

[* incidentally, the very same man I blogged about earlier. Different, eh? ]

matthew hoggard Hoggy hoggy hoggy oi oi oi ! hoggy

(BBC).

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You must download this

It’s phat as phuck. Go to that page and select the Rockafeller Skank Remix. I’m not usually an advocate of drum and bass, but there’s something about that choon that makes me curl my hand and wave my arms in funny patterns. I’m gonna go buy some baggy trousers and get my nose pierced. It’s off an album called “Back to the Old Skool Drum N Bass” from Ministry of Sound. I’m sure I’m breaking all sorts of copyright legislation and so on for putting this up on the web (sorry Mr. RIAA man if you’re reading this). But it’s ace. Do IT.

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New smilies

For ages I’ve been offering smiley pack for free download. Though I think you’d be much better off in just using these, courtesy of lo0ol:

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Tech speak!

Heard of cybersquatting? No, it’s not taking a shit on the web, it’s where you register a domain with a view to selling it on for a profit to a company who might want it, for example, buying nike.com… No worries, all heard of that. But what about “typosquatting”?

Typosquatting is a form of cybersquatting, based on the probability that a certain number of Internet users will mistype the name of a URL when surfing.

(Here). Genius. I wonder if anyone’s snapped up mart-thornyon.net yet?

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I’m getting bored…

… of shouting “NOBODY CARES”. It seems people don’t listen to me. The latest reason? Harry Nazi and his Badge of Swastika. Sounds like the next JKR. I’ve read plenty of people saying “He should have been more responsible” and plenty of people saying “He’s only 20, give him a break”, and only one person telling everyone to STFU because it doesn’t matter. Here here! I can’t help but feeling there’s a few more important things going on in the world to worry about some gingerheaded royal who’s had a couple of shandies.

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