Matt Jewell's Internet Cabin (last 15 posts)

Windows Vista. Just about had enough. Sorry.

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:21:31

Vista has issues - we all know that because as is often said by the less troll like of so called 'power' users, no operating system is perfect. So, I won't bore you with the frequent problems I run into with Vista and how frankly, it manages to make me feel like a 3rd wheel to the fancy new laptop I...

Woah, moose, what the fruit is going on?

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:47:11

Yep so I'm finding it hard to find time to update the site at the moment and so took the site down temporarily last week with the intention of changing things about. Unfortunately due to ongoing....stuff...I haven't got around to it so here is the current site as is from a few weeks ago so people ar...

Scrubs season 8 and site goings on

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:15:23

Just fresh from the Zach Braff myspaz page with some pleasant news! Scrubs will be extended for yet another series (making it the 8th) despite what was originally said. [indent]"I've also been stalling to talk about some big Scrubs news, however I've just been informed that I'm not allowed to ta...

Twistori

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:59:29

I came across this interesting site 'twistori' thanks to Chris Pirillo's twitter and I don't know whether it's a pure jealousy of how sleek it is or a secret nosiness coming out of the woodwork but I can't help watching th...

The man who grew a finger

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:44:38

Just came across this on the telebox and thought it deserved a good old reposting here! [indent][i]Rarely though do would you expect to find a medical miracle working behind the counter of the mall's hobby shop. That however is what Lee Spievak considers himself to be. "I put my finger in," Mr...

Long time no anything

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:32:25

Haven't been able to post much recently so here goes another blog post with not much in the way of specific meaning! I've been going out a lot recently with a camera trying to find something to kick myself into doing some work and I just had to post this picture over at [url=http://icanhascheezbu...

More Typography and a Monty Python Moment

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:55:12

[i]Today I have been navigating this marvellous 'internets' thing on a mouse measuring no more than 1.25 inches in diameter....two words - finger cramp. In fairness to my old mouse (which cost me no more than 1,500 pennies around 3 years ago) it's done me well, and has taken quite a beating over the...

Expressive Words

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:54:51

Yesterday I came across Karly Barrett's post on designing expressive words where she had set herself the task of exploring the 'expressive quality of words through typography'. Having seen these I have to admit I was instan...

White Easter Continued

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:24:29

So yeah it snowed fairly heavily last night (by England's standards) so I figured I'd share a couple of quick pictures. In truth most of the snow had melted by this point...I just felt like going outside. [img|[*pat...

Marion Bataille's Popup Book

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:36:56

Featured on today's Sunday Type over at iLT is this amazing little popup book of each letter of the alphabet. Extremely impressive stuff, I love transi...

Adobe's next Flash Player 'Astro'

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:30:41

I can't say I've ever really played about with flash more than using good old motion tween to create a very sketchy looking splash page back in the day, and it's because of my ignorance I came across the Adobe Labs page on Flash 10 (codenamed 'As...

This Evening's Layout Refresh

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:13:47

I got home today and didn't like the look of the blog (again) so have decided to give it a little update. Again it's still going along the simple black/white theme but this time I've tried to make it a little looser. Here's the old layout for comparison: [img|http://mattjewell.com/images/uploads/oldlayout.j...

Nudist Typeface by Craig Oldham

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:33:15

I like...fonts...I shall make no effort to hide that fact! One of the things I have been aching to do for a long while now is change this entire blog's layout to something more eye friendly as I keep coming across more and more typography orientated sites I love the look of (to take an obvious examp...

Another earthquake?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:19:15

Well, I don't know about any one else in the UK but our house just shivered quite dramatically! Only lasted 2 maybe 3 seconds but you could tell from noise the pheasants outside were making something was going on!...perhaps this could be the aftershock we never received from the last one! [b]Upd...

Windows Vista SP1 released

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:02:41

Update: Is SP1 worth installing? Yes. As expected there's virtually nothing in the way of new features however I've found that the system has become fairly noticeably more responsive. By that I mean the opening, closing etc of windows seems quicker and it's especially noticeable in folders wi...