Author: Matthew Cashmore

adventure | Touring

Afritrex – 5 Marathons, 5 Mountains
ByMatthew Cashmore December 28, 2007

Holly cow. These guys are totally nuts. Seriously… I thought we were mad in our little jaunt over to Russia and back, but compared to Ben and Owen, we’re off for a stroll in the park. I love this kind of thing; Ben and Owen are driving counter clockwise around Africa – enough of a…

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New role for Chad
ByMatthew Cashmore December 20, 2007

I had the distinct pleasure of working with Chad Dickerson when we were organising the London Hack Day last year. Chad is truly a gentleman and treated me to an excellent meal on my recent trip to San Francisco – I tried to pursued him to let me clean his pool (I have no idea if he has one) in…

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Bodichitta
ByMatthew Cashmore December 16, 2007

Thanks to Kathy Southard (the amazing lady who runs the Young London Buddhists group) over at my Facebook funwall for pointing me in the direction of this series of videos from Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche In this video Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche discusses how to rouse our inherent true nature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utATcfiRtEg

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A bit of fun from the backstage party
ByMatthew Cashmore December 16, 2007

Well the backstage party got off to a great start with us being evicted from the main bar to allow 650 Santa’s to come and go until 9pm – all in the name of charity (how could we be upset!). They gave us so much entertainment in the first few hours of the party that…

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A lick of paint
ByMatthew Cashmore December 13, 2007

As Richard Titus over at the BBC Internet blog explains the BBC Homepage is undergoing a small change… Well it’s not that small – Richard describes it as a lick of paint but actually it’s fundamentally shifting the way we think about how people interact with the BBC Online – and it’s about time. For…

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So this is news?
ByMatthew Cashmore December 13, 2007

Okay I know it’s in the ‘entertainment’ section – but since when can a sprained ankle equal news?! Perhaps BBC Entertainment News should just rename itself Heat Online and be done with it.

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Windows XP on the Eee PC
ByMatthew Cashmore December 7, 2007

But why the hell would you want to? http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/07/eb_eee_pc_with_xp/ It’s just so damn wrong! You have an OS that’s fast, clean, small and efficient… and you go through the pain of the installation process to instal and OS that’s slow, dirty, takes up an inordinate amount of space and is just plain nasty… if you…

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Laptop for the road
ByMatthew Cashmore December 6, 2007

I’ve spoken before about my search for a good laptop for the road. For some time I’ve been really excited by the ASUS Eee PC – a fabulous small laptop that hits all my major concerns. It’s cheap, small, has flash based memory, and because it is so cheap I wont be crying if it…

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One Laptop Per Child
ByMatthew Cashmore December 5, 2007

I’m very fortunate to be in LA right now – the last few days I’ve been in San Francisco. Bragging aside, today I’ve had a chance to play with one of the final units of the One Laptop Per Child scheme over lunch here at the TTI Vanguard Nextgen Technologies conference. The interesting thing is…

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Making me blush…
ByMatthew Cashmore December 4, 2007

… truly cool post from a deeply cool guy 😉

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