http://www.opinios.com/blog/ en-us matt@opinios.com 2006-05-01T00:04:05+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000157.php opinios is now closed. What started as a place to express my ideas, explore my creativity in a new medium and learn a bit about web design has reached its natural ending point, and I no longer feel the drive... 157@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ Blog 2006-05-01T00:04:05+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000151.php Just when I'm stretched for content, I go and get meme'd again. And this one is a real mouthful, and a bit more personal than others past. "I hate these things, but I'll do it to humour my husband," she... 151@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-04-24T22:36:46+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000141.php Inspired by John Allsopp's webpatterns.org, I thought it was high time somebody invested some effort into categorizing the different patterns of reality television programs that were forming in our media landscape. Feel free to add to this list in order... 141@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-04-01T00:58:24+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000143.php Certain readers of this online journal may consider me to be unfairly anti-Microsoft. This is not true. One of my best mates from high school now works for the software juggernaut. I remember I saw him a few years ago... 143@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-03-15T22:27:49+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000150.php What a crap couple of days! It's not very often I'll say that, being a generally cheery optimistic half-glass-full kind of guy. Friday night riding my bike home from work, my tyres got caught in a tram track and sure... 150@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-03-12T21:05:58+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000149.php Cameron meme'd me last month but I had other things on my plate. Now it's time for me to pass it on, somewhat after the big wave has been and gone... Four jobs I've had in my life unloader of... 149@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-02-26T17:33:38+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000147.php Update: Apologies folks, comments weren't disabled on purpose. Just technical difficulties that should be resolved now! The girls have had their say; it's Dad's turn. This is my view of how things panned out on the night of Saturday, January... 147@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-02-23T21:55:25+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000148.php Oops! I turned 30 yesterday and almost didn't notice it. It might have slipped on by if not for my lovely wife and her parents spoiling me with a roast dinner followed by cake. Mmm... cake... Tags: birthday, 30, thirty,... 148@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-02-22T08:22:22+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000146.php Baby Sophia entered the world at 3.59am on Sunday January 22nd, a petite 6lb 9oz and angelic beyond the comprehension of either of her parents. The little darling is happy, healthy and outrageously cute. Her hobbies include pooing, sleeping,... 146@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-01-24T16:29:10+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000145.php This made me chuckle. MSN Spaces, Microsoft's foray into the blogging world, not only uses a logo that very closely resembles a popular Linux distribution (the operating system that poses the greatest threat to their monopoly of the desktop PC... 145@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-01-21T16:21:52+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000142.php I live in an age of convenience, and as a result I expect everything I buy to be pretty much plug-and-play. This includes all the little things that you have to buy to take a house and turn it into... 142@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-01-17T21:33:23+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000140.php Hello everyone. My name is Matthew and I'm addicted to Jawbreaker. See if you can beat my high score of 1572. Tags: jawbreaker, JavaScript, game... 140@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2006-01-02T15:48:49+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000139.php 2005 has probably been the biggest year of my life. I know that is a big call, and last year was a tough one to top considering I got married (the most awesome day of my life!) and moved country... 139@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2005-12-31T21:22:36+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000138.php Just got back from visiting the Bethlehem Walkthrough at St Mary's primary school and this message lobbed into my inbox which made me laugh. Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:13:44 -0500Subject: "Matty McG"? You stole my name. Everyone (sic) single... 138@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2005-12-24T22:01:06+10:00 http://www.opinios.com/archives/000137.php The arrival of SitePoint t-shirts at the office yesterday was a good excuse for a team photo. Yes, you're right, it is just a little geeky to be all dressed up in company colours, but the t-shirt is definitely... 137@http://www.opinios.com/blog/ 2005-12-21T07:19:37+10:00