matthewthornton.info

I’ve updated the web site some, mostly internally.  If you have already subscribed to the web site, please drop your subscription and re-subscribe by clicking on the RSS link again.  (It goes to Feedburner now, instead of just the  generic RSS feed.)  I’ve also updated the tracking code so I can see how many people […]

[Read more →]

And….there it goes.  I’ve restarted Firefox without StumbleUpon.  Well…hmmm…it doesn’t feel too bad, really.  Kind of liberating, actually.  This is a good thing, actually.  Think of all the free time I have now.  I can learn gardening now.  Write the Great American Novel.  Spend more time with my fiancee and keeping in touch with friends […]

[Read more →]

I am one of those ones who likes to think that Google’s purpose is entirely benign and blindly trust them with all of my data.  However, there are times when they can smack you in the face and remind you that they are, in fact, a business.  Not only that, a very dangerous business, run […]

[Read more →]

My politics are all over the place, right now.  There was a time where I was very committed to certain issues.  Now that Jess has been in my life, I’ve revised my politics slightly.  Previously, I was a diehard libertarian.  Nowadays, my politics are more along the lines of I am fine with government doing […]

[Read more →]

Myspace and Facebook have apps/websites that let you answer a bunch of stupid questions and then they give you a little button to put on your page to show the results.  Normally they’re goofy, but I thought this time I’d post the results of one that is pertinent to my life right now–people have said […]

[Read more →]

Well, this week I tried a transition to the Apple-based software that came with OS X, including Address Book, Mail.app, and Safari.  To make a long story short, I despised most of the experience:

Safari is, in my mind, IE 6.  It just feels like a flimsy piece of software.  The biggest advertisement for Safari is […]

[Read more →]

I need to start this post by stating that I did not come up with this.  This is attributable to my good friend, Lee.  Lee started school with me and decided to move on to become a pilot rather than continue to get his PhD. 
Recently, he submitted an article to a magazine and got […]

[Read more →]

I’ve not been programming in a while and I have this new Apple Laptop and I think it’s absurd not to investigate how to write programs for it.  In order to get back in the swing of writing code, I’m going to start learning how to use Cocoa and maybe apply it to a project […]

[Read more →]