About me

meHi, if you don't know me i'm Matt and this is my home on the Internet. If you want to know more about me then please follow the links below to look at my blog and photo galleries. I graduated from Durham University in June 2006 with a degree in Software Engineerig and I am currently working out what I want to do with my life - if you have any decent suggestions please let me know (I don't however want to do anything related to software development!

I try to spend as much time as I can in the theatre and whilst in Durham I was involved teching a large number of events over the 3 years. If you want to know more about my life then click here.

Latest blog entries

Here you will find my latest blog entries. Click the title to read the full entry

Failing hard disk

I had a small shock this evening when I noticed that one of the iSCSI mounts to my lab servers was not working as expected. I could see a folder structure but no data in the folder. I have had issues read more

Publishing scripts to Monitoring Exchange

As I start to write/modify more checks and scripts for monitoring applications in Nagios/Opsview I have decided to share these as much as possible with the community so they can enjoy, and if necessarread more

Nagios/Opsview: Check Symantec AV Definitions

This morning whilst deploying a modified version of the Symread more

Website Migrated and Theme issues

Whilst trying to make the home page and blog page look the same I managed to break the wp-admin section of my blog. Thanks to the guys at Loho.co.ukread more

Uni Life - Tech work

Once my gap year was over it was time to embark on life at university. At the start of October 2003 I nervously went for the first time to Durham. Having arrived I settled into my room in read more

Latest gallery albums

These are the latest additions to my online photo gallery. Click the thumbnail for the full album

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Cyprus - August 2007

CB2, Pissouri Villas, Pissouri, Cyprus
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Wavex BBQ 2007

18th August at Pete's house in Fetcham. Lots of beer, vodka, wine, pimms (in a water butt), ice luges, jousting, bbq, music (until someone broke it). Followed by drinking in the most upmarket of establishments that is Leatherhead Wetherspoons!!!
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Pete's Stag Party

12th May 2007 started with a one hour endurance race around the Surbiton Raceway and was then followed by an alcohol tasting session at Vinopolis in London.
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Fun with my Wii

Donky and My mum, dad and brother enjoy the Wii
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Christmas Cottaging 2006

1 week, 17 people and lots of alcohol made up Christmas Cottaging 2006. Set in the grounds of Bochym Manor we spent the week drinking, and enjoying ourselves.
Note: Welcome to my newly skinned website - the code and content is almost identical but this should be a tidier layout and will match the gallery and blog themes (see links at the top of the page). Hope you enjoy

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