http://gregorymathews.com He does like to rant Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:37:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple of days ago in my post It’s a mystery I mentioned we were in process of fitting some kitchen units etc. As some of our worktop is not over any units we decided to fix some wood to the wall under the worktop to help support it. This ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/03/11/water-everywhere/ I am sorry it's been so long, I hadn't realised (yet again) that it's been nearly a month since I last posted. It is strange that after a month since I shut down Dropaholics and replaced the widget there are still blogs trying to display it. Fortunately for me it has ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/03/09/its-a-mystery/ OK last week I announced that Dropaholics is shutting down until I get time to fix some bugs, I then sent messages via entrecard all those I knew had the dropahholic widget on there blog, about 80 I think there was. Well over a week later 60+ of those blogs are ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/02/11/the-widget-is-going/ Yes, this IS a plug, not for any affiliate program but one of my own sites. Mystery Valentine Card I bet many of you remember me  launching this site early last year. If you don't then this site allows you to send your loved one a Valentines card in total anonymity. These ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/02/08/last-few-days/ After the amazing response I received after yesterdays announcement I started thinking about what and if I can do anything. As I mentioned in the post yesterday, I don't have the time at the moment to develop as I need to work on projects that pay the bills. I will however ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/02/04/gregs-been-thinking/ I am sorry to say that Dropaholics is shutting down. There have been a number of bugs over the past 15 months with it and while looking into something recently I have discovered that the scripts that are meant to update blog info if it changes, ie blog button or title ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/02/03/dropaholics-is-shutting-down/ As many of you know I gave up smoking early last year, when we went to Spain in August I found I was sweating all the time. Now I have always been one who sweats when its hot or I am in an uncomfortable situation but this time I was ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/02/02/whats-wrong-with-me/ This week has been one of those weeks, it started Monday night when while walking Lady, our Golden Labrador, she saw a cat the otherside of our street and decided to chase it, at the same time a taxi cab was driving up the road. Unfortunately the dog had seen ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/01/22/oh-what-a-fun-week/ After weeks of snow and Ice our street has actually been gritted by the council. There must be a reason! For the past few weeks the council has been running out of grit/salt, they haven't been refilling the grit boxes on the sides of roads where accidents are likely because 'they ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/01/14/weve-been-gritted-yippee/ After I posted yesterday we got a call saying that the secondary school our eldest two boys attend was closing at lunch time because of the snow, school buses would run so no need to collect them. About 20 minutes later it was announced that the primary school our youngest attends ... http://gregorymathews.com/2010/01/06/no-school-due-to-snow-on-ground/