Matthew Hutchinson

Back from holidays Ive lined up a fair bit of work for myself. Some ASP, some Rails and some PHP – There wont be posts here for a while – As always the link feed (over there ->) will continue to grow. To summarise a few things around the web I’ve paid attention to recently;

• A Rails Toolbox – Err the Blog has listed some dead handy plugins they’ve been using, and their ‘Cheat Sheet’ gem looks helpful, a command line wiki based cheatsheet
• List of states with nuclear weapons – whos got what
• Active Collab – a (decent) free alternative to Basecamp for your own server. I’m working on a little ruby script to import Basecamp messgaes/comments etc. using their API, directly into ActiveCollab – I’ll distribute it when its done, if I remember
• “30 Apple Cinema Display – according to UPS it should be sitting for me when I get home – whether my productivity will increase with this monster is something to be seen [update]

• The Goonies Soundtrack long out-of-stock, its now available as an import from Amazon (US) – I’m not embarrassed to say – mine’s in the post
• Sniper in Iraq US military use bullet proof windows from busted Hum-vees
• Oh, and I’m selling a little camera , get it while its hot

You may (or may not) have noticed that I’ve been off for two weeks, I got back to London late on Saturday after a much needed break visiting Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) and then Hong Kong.

I’ll not go into any details about the trip here, instead if your’e half-way interested flick through this flickr set – and if I get some time I’ll maybe add some descriptions to these – reading them will be like sitting through a boring slideshow of holiday snaps – what better way to spend 10 mins.

On my trip I managed to resist every urge to buy a PSP, DS Lite, GBA, and/or iTrip despite the massive savings and corner stores selling every gadget under the sun. Instead I opted to splash a bit of cash on a new little Leica Compact Digital Camera – I haven’t had much time to play with it yet (700+ unread emails) – but it looks good so far.