Matt Tyley

IM research

2009-03-27T01:09:00.003+10:30

One should never reply too quickly, just in case you need to look smart by quickly searching Wikipedia. You don't want it to be obvious with a loooong delayed response.

No Financial Crisis Here

2008-10-26T20:34:00.002+10:30

I've made a promise to myself just now, to never borrow money or invest in anything other than myself or my business from this moment on.

That is all.

My New World Order

2008-10-15T21:41:00.003+10:30

So I've become a bit obsessed with a popular conspiracy at the moment, the NWO (New World Order). I believe with great certainty that this conspiracy is indeed real and is falling into place much quicker than most believers had ever thought possible.

So I've ditched my TV, detuned my car radio and subscribed to independent entertainment and news sources such as Digg, Reddit, a variety of podcasts, my favorite being Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. My reason for this is that I'm sick of the corporate brain washing that occurs through mass media channels. Yes I am smart enough to sift through it, but why put up with it at all when there are far superior alternatives on the vast interwebs!

All the 'greenies' out there should research the NWO and focus your energy on it instead, because our environment isn't going to get ANY better without some drastic fundamental changes to our governments and financial institutions.

Free your mind from the owners of not just your country, but soon the world.

Abs by Summer Challenge of 2008

2008-06-23T20:33:00.002+09:30

So my boy and I have challenged each other to a little competition. Although we haven't decided on what the prize will be, although isn't sharing 6 pack abs a prize on its own?!

Summer starts on the 1st of December. Thats just over 5 months away, which seems like a decent amount of time to loose enough weight and bulk up enough muscle to have at least a more presentable beach bod.

Neither of us have a body which would be considered as 'fat' by most people at least, but its not exactly something you would take a picture of and send it to some random on MSN. Any improvement is good anyway.

I'll check back in on the 1st of December with some hot pics for all of my 2 readers.

Humor

2008-06-11T00:29:00.002+09:30

To me all humor seems to be about negativity. I know how emo that sounds, but its true.

Think about it, even the simplest of jokes come down to either having a laugh at someone else's expense or being negative about something in a 'comedic' fashion.

I'll continue to believe this until someone proves me wrong! Leave your examples in the comments...

Politics of IM

2008-06-09T01:20:00.001+09:30

I always find chatting online to be more complicated than it should be. It seems that everyone has their own stupid habits with how they interact with others. Here is but a short list of my annoyances:

Smilies

The over use of smilies and especially those obnoxious customized animated ones is just offensive. It gets worse when the animations replace almost every letter of the alphabet with an animated version of it. You have to remember that the people who use the animated smilies say they are "expressing" themselves and such. I would have to agree with them though, it really expresses the status of their IQ.

Abbreviations

MSN and the like isn't exactly the place for literary masterpieces but something has to be said about some of the idiotic abbreviations the kids are using these days. It's pretty much a competition to abbreviate as many words as possible. Once every word has been sufficiently abbreviated, they go one step further and misspell every other word. Eg. 'boy' would now be 'boi'.

Status

I'm sure everyone at some point is guilty of this, leaving your status as online while walking away to do something thats actually productive. But what's worse is when your online status never sleeps. By that I mean your always signed into MSN, 24/7. Is there something to be gained by that? Some of the excuses are truly sad, like: "I have broadband so I'm always on the internet." and "What if someone wants to talk to me?". Well, there are these other fabulous inventions called email and the telephone, there are even those fancy telephones that are wireless and receive text message, much like MSN. Who would have thunk it?!

Bitchy? Unfair? Not important? Well... It's all of those things, but it's all true. Thats what counts.