Comments for Matt's blog

Comment on Indefinite Leave to Remain appointment in Croydon by Ali

Ali — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:27:40 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thank you for this. I’m also a kiwi applying for Indefinite leave soon and I was very worried about my amount of time out of the country (292 days in 6 years). I feel a lot better after reading about absences from the country tied to annual paid leave being disregarded.
Your description of lunar house is spot on too! I’ll be happy when I don’t have to go back there again.

Comment on Velocity Diet days 36-42 by matt

matt — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:34:56 +0000

I liked the diet, it’s been a few years since I did it but I didn’t keep it up and fairly soon I gained the weight back. Every time since then that Ive started a strict series of exercise I always seem to get sick straight away.

I haven’t heard of the Warrior diet – I must look it up! Cheers for your message

Comment on Velocity Diet days 36-42 by Richard

Richard — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:18:34 +0000

Hey Matt,

How did you go in the end with this Velocity diet?

Would you recommend it?

Have you tried the Warrior diet.. (I quite liked that)

You back in NZ now or what

THanks
warm regards
Richard

Comment on False Advertising I – Tesco Mobile “Unlimited” by banksy

banksy — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:12:08 +0000

Unlimited calls, unlimited webspace, unlimited downloads, and more like these. People put up with it because they get ‘quite a lot’ and are not likely to reach the actual limit. I agree with Matt though, it is not unlimited and it should not be called that, it is false advertising. Some marketing guy somewhere came up with the term to set them apart from the competition and others simply followed because they don’t want to be seen to offer less. It shouldn’t be allowed and they should stick to the facts.

Comment on Do other people find “plz” rude? by matt

matt — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:16:34 +0000

Actually, in our application at work, somebody changed all the useful error messages to “an unexpected error has occurred, please contact support”. When I asked why, they said it was for “technical reasons”. They may as well have just put “it broke plz kthxbye” because it’s about as useful.

Comment on Do other people find “plz” rude? by matt

matt — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:15:00 +0000

I would love to do all those things. Maybe I’ll implement it but only set it for certain users. And I even understood everything you said except for “lgf”.

Comment on Do other people find “plz” rude? by David

David — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:36:37 +0000

Write more interesting error messages and see what they think of it.

“It broke plz lgf kthxbye.”

Change all the friendly input sanitation errors to: “PEBKAC stfu”.

Or create a rosetta stone that they have to reference to decode your reply.

Hmm…. I don’t think I’m being very serious anymore.

Comment on 7 Meard Street – Nope, no prostitutes here by matt

matt — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:05:43 +0000

Hey thanks! Hadn't heard of him before, but then I read Wikipedia and now I know! The same sign in the photo is even in that article.

Comment on 7 Meard Street – Nope, no prostitutes here by Lilli

Lilli — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:58:15 +0000

It’s just an in-joke from the late dandy artist Sebastian Horsley who lived there. Also, it did used to be a brothel at one stage

Comment on Do other people find “plz” rude? by Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:13:46 +0000

I do not think it is acceptable for people at work who don’t know you to use ‘plz’ etc. I guess I could cope if ‘plz’ (etc) was used by people at work who you are friendly with or who you know well, but even that would annoy me. It doesn’t take that long to take the time to type a few extra letters! But then I hate text language and think everyone should write in proper English, even in a text message