The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

I’m amazed and elated that Vincent Flanders is still doing web pages that suck. He had some good principals back in the day and taught me a hell of a lot. But with the sands of time, I thought that would’ve died out. Perhaps Web 2.0 has increased his business tenfold. Anyway for those of [...]

Another top bloke bites the dust. George was in his early seventies but worked at a prolific pace until death. Most gen X and Yers would know him from Kevin Smith movies such as Dogma and Jersey Girl.
Whilst he may not have been the pioneer that Lenny Bruce was, he made a huge contribution to [...]

One of rock’s true greats has passed. For those of you who came in late, Bo Never filled stadiums, that wasn’t his job. Instead he inspired virtually all the stadium fillers! Being a repressed drummer, he invented his own rhythmic guitar style, loosely based on the ham bone military sqwuark that soldiers march to. This [...]

OMFG! I am so friggin’ excited. A movie about Lemmy is all but in the can and will be released in 2009. In the teaser alone, there’s Slash (who must be the Lemmy in training), Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Mick Jones and some other guy from the Clash and of course the other two blokes [...]

Found this Airbourne music video with Lemmy today. It came up on a Facebook alert so it has to be reasonably fresh. Lemmy Kilmister should officially be in everything. He’d make Desperate Housewives a lot more interesting anyway. But for now we’ll have to content ourselves with Lemm’ as a trucker driving Airbourne on a [...]

In my travels in Arequipa Peru, we decided to venture out of tourist town into Normalville. In our travels, we came across a bottle shop, so I took a look.
Wouldn’t you know it, booze is pretty cheap in Peru. A bottle of local rum is about 15 Soles ($5 AUD), Johnny Walker Red 30 Soles [...]

Sure you might not think the Olympics even matter or are interesting. I would certainly agree with you on that point. The spirit of the Olympics is an entirely different matter though. Wars are meant to stop, soldiers down guns and leave all prejudices left aside to compete as equals on a level playing field.
Sadly [...]

Update 3/6/2008: The 2008 version of this software has a new ‘feature’ added. It logs out the user on your Windows machine, so you can connect from the Mac. The old version beta version I had didn’t make you do that. Other than that, it had a bunch more nag screens about security (what else [...]

Tonight was the big night. I’ve made the move from ADSL 1 with iiNet to ADSL 2+ with TPG. Fingers crossed, I hope they keep up the good work. So basically I’ve churned to TPG for free (on an 18 month contract) and the speed is blindingly quick so far.
Oh yeah, and I’ve gone from [...]

Watching the news just now on Australian Channel Ten, I was simply flabbergasted at how a report on anti-whaling protesters completely missed the point. Apparently one of the Sea Shepherd crew was shot by a Japanese  ’scientist’. What really amazed me is that the bullet was lodged in one of the protester’s “Kevlar”. Now this [...]