Cloudy Portland

musings of a nephologist

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Ramblings
  • Interesting…
  • Portland
  • Family
  • Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Technology

Category Archives: Humour

Lessons In Economics

May 19, 2009by Mat Ellis Leave a comment

In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening. Everyone is […]

Read Article →
Humour

The Tao of Comms

December 5, 2008by Mat Ellis

From many, many years ago, ancient truth. The Tao of Comms * Keep in mind the Four Noble Truths: 1. Comms is constant suffering. 2. This suffering is caused by […]

Read Article →
Humour, Other Tech
Paul Graham on Cuil

Cuil it now…

July 30, 2008by Mat Ellis Leave a comment

It must be tough. You’re part of the brain trust that made Google great. You leave and publicly announce you’re going to out-Google Google with your new search engine. You […]

Read Article →
Humour, Ramblings

Major Technological Breakthrough

June 5, 2005by Mat Ellis

Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device, trade-named BOOK. BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology : no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries nothing to be connected or switched […]

Read Article →
Humour

Geek Humour

August 4, 2004by Mat Ellis

(From Mark Brader’s .signature) “… one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of […]

Read Article →
Humour

Robots? Pah!

February 2, 2004by Mat Ellis

“Today’s robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as ‘go left’, ‘go right’, and ‘build car’.” –John Sladek

Read Article →
Humour

My Mac is so clever!

January 22, 2004by Mat Ellis

More wise sayings from my Mac: “When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” — Sacha Guitry

Read Article →
Humour

Post navigation

About Me

Formerly from the UK, I now live in Portland, OR. I'm dad to three lovely kids and in my spare time I'm also the CEO & Founder of Cloudability.

What you'll find here: personal thoughts on stuff like technology, living in America and anything else I find interesting.

Recent Posts

  • Life without Apple
  • Netgear router issue – FIXED
  • Applying a Startup Mentality to Local Government
  • Fixing Issues When Building Ruby Gems With Native Extensions
  • When the Price is Wrong!

Can’t Find It?

Twitter Updates

  • At last: a practical, every day use for SQL injection joedantoni.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/awe… #switzerland #hack << Putting this in my next NSA email... 4 hours ago
  • RT @no_fear_inc: Every single backend developer has a heart of designer. In a jar on the desk. 2 days ago
  • RT @TheTechGang: #Cloud #Apps Adobe Creative Cloud Apps Rolling Out this Evening! - NeoGAF: Adobe Creative Cloud Apps Rolling O... http://t… 2 days ago
  • RT @akaffen: “Sometimes the best ideas are right in front of you” and other words of wisdom from 15 #Entrepreneurs terrystarbucker.com/2013/06/16/15-… h… 2 days ago
  • Back in PDX for what's left of Father's Day. (at Portland International Airport) [pic] — path.com/p/ka1sw 2 days ago
Follow @matellis

Google+

Check me out on Google+ Google+

Instagram

Yay! The fayre has come to Portland! Pool party! Nice view from my room tonight in Seattle. In Wisconsin on my way home to PDX Another day, another airport... At Facebook HQ. Nice pic of Mt. Hood on my way home from TX. You could actually see all 3 mountains but I wasn't able to get a good enough shot on my little ol' iPhone. Enjoying a well earned scotch and cigar post board meeting in San Antonio Awesome ice cube shot by @stormental in #SATX

Archives

Blog Roll

  • Cloudability
  • Mr Joy
  • P.I.E.
  • Stormental

Categories

  • Cloud
  • Code
  • Family
  • Humour
  • Interesting…
  • Operating Systems
  • Other Tech
  • Personal
  • Portland
  • Ramblings
  • Tech

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • Blog at WordPress.com.

Legal

This stuff is mine, all mine. If it's actually yours and you want me to take something down, please write me at the address listed on the domain WHOIS record.

© 1997-2013 Mat Ellis, All Rights Reserved.

Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Customized Oxygen by AlienWP.
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 941 other followers

Powered by WordPress.com