Being the homepage of Matt Gibson, a random geek, writer and photographer from Bristol.

Funny Characters

July 22, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Quotes by Matt

I’m just reading Joel Spolksy’s excellent 2003 article on Unicode and character sets, I think for the first time. If you’re a programmer and have the least bit of doubt about character encodings, I’d go read it now, if I were you. Not least because it’s so damn well written. The IBM-PC had something that […]


Ihnatko (That’s easy for _you_ to say…)

May 17, 2008 Posted in Quotes by Matt

Added Andy Ihnatko quote to Quotes Page


Quotes and adverts and recommendations

December 30, 2007 Posted in Quotes by Matt

Added a Jeff Atwood quote, put Nozbe links in the sidebar, dropped the Skype Me link that nobody ever used, and added Spanning Sync to the list of applications.


Quotes & Readability

November 19, 2007 Posted in Quotes by Matt

Added Alan Kay quotation, and darkened the font colour for body text across the site to make it more readable under Internet Explorer, which seems to have terrible problems rendering fonts legibly…


Pictures and quotes and podcasts, oh my!

November 4, 2007 Posted in Quotes by Matt

As well as creating a completely new page for my favourite photographs, which links through to my Flickr photos page, I’ve added a Bruce Schneier quote to the quotes page, and popped The Long Now Foundation’s podcast to my podcasting page. I’m also going to update the Fave Mac Apps page to add RapidFlickr, which […]


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