The personal website of Matt Henderson.
15 February 2011
Postini is a hosted spam service, now owned by Google, which filters your mail before it arrives to your account, placing anything it considers spam into a “quarantine”. When you ask Postini to deliver an incorrectly caught good message, it gives you the option of adding the sender to a whitelist.
14 February 2011
From, “Why we get fat”, the fantastic follow-up to “Good calories, Bad calories” by Gary Taubes:
14 February 2011
President Obama was in the Oval Office when his telephone rang. “Hello, President Obama?”, a heavily accented southern voice said. “This is Archie, down here at the Rexall drug store, in Duluth, Georgia, and I am callin’ to tell y’all that we are officially declaring war on ya!”
13 February 2011
When I get pulled into a discussion on the topic of religion, I usually end up leaving with many frustrating thoughts. In the most recent conversation, the following particularly stood out.
12 February 2011
According to Milton Friedman, the problem with socialism isn’t its intentions; the notions of government helping those in need, and protecting the disadvantaged are honorable. The problem is that when implemented, public funds inevitably end up in the wrong hands, and far more people exploit protection than benefit from it.
08 February 2011
A nice little UI/UX test is the “Squint Test” — i.e. as you look at a screen or interface, squint or defocus your eyes, and see if you can discern the system’s structure and navigation.
04 February 2011
Spainish president Rodriguez Zapatero has been meeting with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to discuss reforms necessary to address the battered Spanish economy. One of Merkel’s suggestions, is that Spain adopt policies similar to those in Germany, which tie salary increases to productivity and profit, rather than inflation.
03 February 2011
In this interview with Hannah Murray at Talk Radio Europe, my friend and training partner Babak Alimoradian and I talk about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the recently 2011 European BJJ Championship. (As you’ll hear from the interview, nobody ever going to hire me to do a voice-over.)