http://www.matt-jones.org Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it seems McCain isn't going to puss-out and the first U.S. Presidential Debate of 2008 is going to happen. Seeing as I'm staying up to watch it I figured I'd try one of these fancy Live Blog things. It'll be interesting to see how incoherent it gets as I ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/09/26/first-presidential-debate-live-blog/ Download Ah to have lyrics and therefore something resembling song titles, but never mind. Another track that isn't exactly 'new', but has a new middle section and probably the best recorded version of it. I was tempted to slow down the main tempo in case it felt a little rushed (and ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/08/15/thrash-slow-start/ Whilst myself and my buddy enjoy making music, we are afflicted by the problem that, while we can do the rest, neither of us can sing. These guys however seem to have the opposite problem. Despite watching the regular amount of Daily Show/Colbert today, this made me laugh the most, and ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/08/12/dum-diddle-um-diddle-um-battery/ Back from another staff party. If TV and Film are to be believed Staff parties are supposed to be terribly boring affairs, but for the 2nd year running, this staff party has been ace! There may just be something to getting drunk on a Thursday, but if this was every ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/08/08/and-another-year-goes-by/ ... for some value of 'new'. This song has been written for ages but I thought I'd re-record it with all the skillz I've acquired since I first finished it. Once I've got a decent collection of tracks I really need to work on my soloing; it's the one thing ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/08/05/another-new-song/ Download A cover I've been working on for a few weeks of the Rammstein song 'Adios'. Nothing too special here, as it's a pretty easy song to play. I concentrated more on the production as there isn't many layered tracks but there is a lot of different sounds (a clean sound ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/07/30/adios-cover/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7528503.stm So apparently some former Google employees claim their new search engine is better than The Google. Let's run a quick test based a slightly edge-case search, but one that I have needed the answer to in my working day: "oracle v$open_cursors bug": Google: 3,260 results. How useful these results might be ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/07/28/the-new-google/ Not to be confused with the Next generation; I occasionally buy my clothes from other places. ha So the 'next-gen' consoles have surely now become the 'current-gen' consoles. As such it only seems appropriate that I pick myself up one of these bad-boys. The trouble here is the 'one' part. I ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/07/27/time-to-join-the-next-generation/ Note: These are not in order of hatred, but as and when I find more reasons. Anyone with more than a passing interest in the '08 US Presidential Race will know who John Hagee is. Alas that guy is not really a reason to hate religion per se; there are always ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/07/24/why-i-hate-religion-1/ Everyone has a pair of truly comfy shoes. Those shoes that you wear all the time that have taken the exact contours of each foot. They are there welcoming you each morning; you haven't undone/redone the laces in years. Alas, my own pair of said shoes has finally been retired. I ... http://www.matt-jones.org/2008/07/21/the-shoes-are-dead-long-live-the-shoes/