The Mind of Matty G

Number two and the language you speak

This story involves a washroom. If that doesn’t suit your fancy, hit the back button. I don’t mind. We share a building with a Spanish Culture establishment in Downtown Toronto. For some reason, only the washrooms that are marked “SC patrons and employees” are the ones that actually flush. We are tenants of the centre, [...]

Android Perspective from the iOS Camp

Posted in Tech

So I had the opportunity to try out a Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant on Bell Mobility. Try before you buy is almost unheard of in the electronics world (mostly for the amateur blogger). So I thought I would do the world, and myself, a favour and flesh out the pros and cons of Android vs. [...]

A Xserve Newbie Install

Posted in Rants Tech

Ok, so I’m not a complete newbie. I’ve played around with Linux servers, WAMP, MAMP and other server technologies. But by no means do I consider myself an IT professional. My office in the last couple months has invested in not one, but two Xserves. I was extremely excited about getting the first. We use [...]

Internet Explorer as the Psycho Girlfriend

Posted in Humour Tech

This is adapted from a friend of mine, Brad Taunt. I changed just a little, to make a little bit more defined differences. Enjoy. Internet Explorer is the scum of the internet. Now before you rant and rave about “hackers” and “trolls” let me explain why almost, well hopefully all, web designers HATE Microsoft’s devil [...]

What I Learned While Pair Programming with a Software Engineer

Posted in Tech

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing another Matt for just over a year now who is a student at UOIT, where I work. I’ve known for a while that he is a very good programmer and that he has the ego to go along with it. It has only been recently that I’ve gotten to [...]

Political Satire

Posted in Political

I’m a Jesus follower. I agree with universal health care. I think the government needs to regulate business (to a certain extent). I’m not completely sold on global warming, though I think we need to do as much as we can to stop polluting our world. I don’t think someone who doesn’t consider themselves a [...]

Custom Javascript Objects with Embedded JQuery

Posted in Tech

To all of you non coding geeks, you don’t have to read this. It might confuse bewilder bore you to death not be of relevance to you. As some of you know, I’m a multimedia developer (read: web developer… that seems to be the majority of what I do) at a relatively new University in [...]

Double Crunch Challenge: Post-Post-Week Wrap-up

Posted in PrimalStride

So the week after the… uhh, week after the double crunch challenge, I’m still doing crunches (though I’ve dropped it to 100 per day), I’m still eating relatively healthy (save for the Wendy’s my wife and I got for dinner because we were in a bit of a rush). I’ve included having a handful of [...]

Double Crunch Challenge: Day 5

Posted in Rants

Let me answer your question: Yes, it still hurts; but not as much as it did yesterday. That means my body just might be getting used to it. I spread out the crunches throughout the day – fifty when I wake up, fifty just before (or when I get) to work, fifty at lunch, fifty when [...]

Double Crunch Challenge: Update

Posted in PrimalStride

On day 4 of the double crunch challenge: I’m hurting. I’ve been faithfully doing my 250 crunches a day and have had very little difficulty in eating a different green vegetable each day. Friday was Green Peppers, Saturday was Broccoli and Celery (Looky! Double Dose!), Sunday was Asparagus. Today? Any suggestions? Did I say I’m [...]