Matthew Sweet’s Weblog

“It doesn’t matter where Chuck Norris sits, Chuck Norris is always at the head of the table.”
- Matthew Sweet

Curiously enough, the “Where to Buy” page on Apples store for the new iPhone 3G does not have a link to Telstra, only Optus and Vodafone.
I must admit, I’m really suprised by this, I was expecting Telstra to pick up the iPhone, I guess negotions didn’t go Telstra’s way…
It’s a shame really, Telstra has by [...]

After reading Mega Church Watch I have come to the conclusion (or maybe I did years ago) that it’s alot easier to form cynical attitudes to things that grow than applaud someone or something thats doing better than you are.
I love the fact that things grow, I don’t sit around being resentful that the tree [...]

Cool joke I got the other day via email:
A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.
We all looked at each other and another customer asked, ‘What is a seven-hundred-ten?’ She replied, ‘You know, the little piece in the middle of [...]

I’m just having a go at some of the new features in Wordpress 2.5 - specifically images!

I just did a major update of fg.com over the easter long weekend.

Finally moved from my www.mediatemple.net account to my own www.servint.net vps server
Installed Wordpress 2.3.3 with fantastico!
Installed the latest following plugins:

Adsense Delux - 0.8
AVC FLV-Player - 2.5.5
Akismet - 2.1.4
All-In-One-SEO-Pack - 1.4.6.3
Google Analyticator - 2.1
Google Sitemaps - 3.0.3
reCAPTCHA - 2.6
ShiftThis | Newsletter  - 2.2.6
Twitter Widget [...]

I’m not sure what happened here, maybe the post office wanted to unload some of those old Christmas stamps left over from the festive season. Maybe office staff had nothing better to do?
But this is the result of a roll of 161 stamps and a miss-spent afternoon in the (relatively) remote NSW town of Coonamundra.

I’m giving windows live writer a go.
Live writer is a XML-RPC client that allows you to post blog entries from your windows desktop.
It means that any metaweblog api compliant blogging platform can be posted to using Live Writer.
It’s awesome, just for quickly tapping out entries it’s great.
You can also easily add images:

Inserting a map [...]

I made it with iMovie on my new Mac Book Pro and my Canon TX1.