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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take Matt Loney, Site Director. Now it's Friday, and I've got brainlessness to spare. Friday 5/5/2006 I had hoped at the beginning of the week to have enough stories to fill the four days. He suffers, poor chap, from being a great journalist who's...
[May 5, 2006, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The office fell silent as Matt Loney fielded the call. No, no," said Matt. You'll never guess what I've got! You've gotta take that down! he said. It's a laptop with Linux on it -- comes pre-installed!
[August 6, 2004, 17:40]
Goodwins' Hot Dates: The Diary Top Ten For 2002
News Disaster has struck our noble news mogul, Matt Loney. Mr Loney felt a strange sense of emptiness to one side, and looked down to see his bag disappear in the company of -- in his words -- a chap "in a black T-shirt, black hat and black jeans.
[December 25, 2002, 6:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Our glorious leader Matt Loney was in the Friday news meeting when office supremo Sharon -- of whom so much could be said -- popped her head around the door and said "Matt! Matt promptly expressed a very Republican opinion involving his bicycle...
[July 9, 2004, 19:05]
What ZDNet UK's Editors Want For Christmas review
Reviews Loney Matt I've been counting the number of people sporting those tell-tale white 'mug me' ear buds on my commute into the office, and the number grows inexorably higher. I've been through the shock of not having one, I've worked through my anger...
[December 16, 2004, 8:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A small but talented team is out at the Microsoft Tech Ed Europe 2004 show in Amsterdam, with Editor Matt Loney and Intern Supreme Ingrid Marson following the plot. You might expect a huge event in Amsterdam, stuffed full of itinerant hacks and...
[July 2, 2004, 18:50]
Did You Know? How To Get Indexed By Technorati
Blog This will be old news, of course, to the ZDNet faithfuls--Matt Loney pointed a while ago to Mike Barrett's advice on making your Community blog visible to Technorati. I'll add a couple of notes, based on queries I've received:
[April 10, 2007, 17:31]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment But at work I don't think we're quite at the tipping point Matt Loney talks of in his article. But the point I'm trying to make is that, not just in my job now, but everywhere else I've worked the key bit of software that we were using was windows...
[October 22, 2007, 20:53]
What Do ZDNet UK's Editors Want For Christmas? review
Reviews Matt Loney Matt Broersma There's something ineffably comforting about owning a timepiece that's got a good chance of ticking along thousands of years after you've finally been wound up. It's the only device I've seen that appears to be a good...
[December 22, 2003, 7:30]
Thursday
Blog Matt Loney got a huge story up about SQL Slammer from his home on a Sunday morning, and it was around the world in less time than it takes to shout "Hold the front page"! I've been working in online journalism now for almost exactly half the time I...
[January 31, 2003, 16:40]
Warchalking: London Wi-Fi Guerrillas Take Tips From Hobos
News I've been a bit overawed by everything to be honest," said Matt Jones, who came up with the idea after seeing students of the UK Architectural Association in what they called a "wireless Internet performance".
[June 26, 2002, 14:48]
Looks Good, ZDNet
Blog Comment That's my take on it anyway :-) matt Big business is generally not switched on to open source software - I've been looking very closely at open source CMSes over the past few years and I'm very aware of what's out there
[October 31, 2006, 19:22]
Microsoft Sets Date For Vista SP1 Beta
Blog Comment We're aware that we could have made some elements of navigation easier to follow - any experience, good or bad - that you have to share are very valuable in this respect.matt We have fixed the comment count bug - I'm not sure where it came from but...
[June 26, 2007, 9:00]
EBay Brings Down The Hammer On Microsoft Passport
News There doesn't seem to be a huge role for Passport -- certainly not the role that was sketched out for it two or three years ago," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst for research firm Directions on Microsoft, at the time.
[December 30, 2004, 10:10]
How Can I Get My Site To Be More Of A 2.0 Site?
Forum Joomla is one open source CMS that I've found useful, and although it won't give you all the 'web 2.0' features you want by default, there are plenty of modules freely available that will provide everything you need (check out the 'Extensions...
[September 18, 2007, 10:30]
B&Q Web Site Lets Hackers Do It Themselves
News I've come across mistakes very similar though not the same. A major security flaw has been exposed on home improvement retail giant B&Q's Web site, www.diy.com, which allows a potential hacker relatively easy access to its customers' personal details.
[November 14, 2003, 16:40]
Experts Exchange And Paid Subscriptions
Blog Comment You've brought up two interetsing issues there. First, I'm glad you enjoy zdnet.co.uk topazg. The sponsored links come straight from Google and I haven't seen the undesirable ones you mentioned but I believe we can add a block to those - I'll check...
[March 7, 2007, 17:07]
Big Difference Between Errors And Warning
Talkback I've been through many of the pages using the Fangs screenreader extension for Firefox, and didn't encounter any problems. I think you're confusing errors with warnings. Our pages are pretty error free - you might be hard pressed to find any.
[November 6, 2006, 12:45]
The BIG Idea (part 1)
Blog Comment I haven't seen a truly intuitive user interface on a piece of technology since the old bakelite ring-tone telephone my parents used to have, and am of the opinion that even the most intuitive UIs we use today are only intuitive once you've been...
[June 19, 2007, 12:42]
If You Read Our Story Carefully...
Talkback It does throw up an interesting issue though, and we've been scratching our heads here as to what this means for the wider industry if the reason Apple gives is true: for instance does it mean Microsoft should charge for every service pack?
[January 19, 2007, 9:30]
