Mat's Hideout

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  • Royal Mail. Doing Justice to its 'Royal' Roots.

    Royal Mail delivered one letter for me, one for 61 Tunis Road (lucky me!) and one for 61 Stanlanke Road. That’s why I can’t vote Labour…

  • Yes, I know. (And Google SEO)

    Things that made me amused today. Warning: this post is of a boring, slightly geek bent.

  • Avoiding The Archers

    I cannot begin to tell you how much I value listening to Radio 4. I know that everyone likes to think their preferred news source is devoid of any bias, political or other, and those with ‘higher class’ sources of news usually criticise the shortsightedness of such a view: Star reader: “Can you flippin’ believe […]

  • Car stereo

    Dear next-door-but-one neighbour’s boyfriend I know you are a jobless, state-scrounging, part-time drug-dealing loser, whose only redeeming feature is that you actually visit your child once or twice per week – which I presume sets you apart from the majority of your state-scrounging, jobless, drug-dealing contemporaries – this is a message for you. Of which […]

  • The London Foxtrot

    Why do foxes trot?

  • BT vs BBC: an exercise in confusing service providers' responsibilities with those of content providers

    So much for the democratisation of the internet

  • Radical rhetoric

    Did I hear this correctly? Regarding Mexico, Hillary Clinton said, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade”, and, “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians”. Here we have a senior Whitehouse official accepting some […]

  • Finally, it breaks

    Contrary to original post re apparent indestructability of iPhone, mine appears now to have broken. Just thought I’d set the record straight. The volume / vibrate switch on the side had snapped off. O2 insurance was brilliant: a brand new model, couriered to me the following day.

  • Predicate logic

    Courtesy of this site, we have a nice succint definition of a predicate: A predicate is a verb phrase template that describes a property of objects, or a relationship among objects represented by the variables. The statement Mat is right can be thus represented by the arbitrary object Mat as it applies to the predicate “is_right” represented […]

  • When is a deep-seated problem in society not a deep-seated problem in society?

    Is racism inherent to humanity? A societal construct? A belief we are taught? Is it possible to be untaught? Are some people genuinely completely devoid of racism, or are we all complicit in the racism that is a part of our society whether we own that belief ourselves or not?