Matt Waddell http://www.mattwaddell.com Photography, Cars and a bit of Technology! Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:42:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazing NASA photo Just found this amazing photo taken by the NASA MODIS Rapid Response System. At 11:50am today (Jan 7th 2010) the MODIS system returned this image of the UK. I’ve never seen such a high percentage of the mainland covered by snow and ice.

For a full image click on this link: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010007-0107/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg

]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2010/01/07/amazing-nasa-photo/ Porthleven in the snow Well as I was unable to get into work today I thought I would get out and take a few photos.  Here are a few taken from around the harbour area plus 3 quick snaps from outside the house showing the amount of snow still falling, not bad for Southerly Cornwall.

]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2010/01/07/still-snowing/ Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 Well Game have done it again for me, I have Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 before it’s official release date.

No time to post any details as it is installing onto my XBox HDD and nearly ready.

]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/11/09/call-of-duty-6-modern-warfare-2/ Forza Motorsport 3 | Video This is a quick post as last night three of us from work had a superb race on Forza Motorsport 3 around Le Mans in a standard AMG SL65 Black each.  At one point I attempted an OUTRAGEOUS late braking and drift manoeuvre, don’t think I could ever pull off this move again without it ending [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/10/27/fm3-video/ Forza Motorsport 3 Well something good appears to have come out of the postal strike, GAME have sent me my copy of Forza Motorsport 3 on the XBox 360 today (Tuesday 20th October) and it is not officially released until Friday 23rd October!

Only had it for a few hours but it is superb and has managed to make [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/10/20/forza-motorsport-3/ Crank 2 fails on Panasonic DMP-BD35 I rented Crank 2 today and had problems, the disc loads for 2-3 minutes then a loading screen pops up, after about another minute the progress bar stops.  It played the studio music, but pic was still frozen on the loading screen, and then the film menu (or rather a piece of it) came up [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/10/09/crank-2-fails-on-panasonic-dmp-bd35/ Der Riese: 1000 Kills Club Der Riese Zombie Factory

Last night I got into the 1000 Kill Club on Call of Duty: World at War with 1286 kills in a single game lasting to round 29. It only went wrong when the 3 of us playing got split up whilst teleporting back to the mainframe.  I managed to aquire all [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/09/01/der-riese-1000-kills-club/ Movies and Games The Dark Knight on Blu-ray

Well I have finally got around to putting my movies and games database back online. I have so many films that it takes me ages to search for what I have so this way is the easiest method I have to search for them. The links are off of the [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/08/22/movies-and-games/ Fixed: Outlook Junk E-mail1 folder Office Outlook

Since migrating my work mailbox from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange my Junk E-mail folder within Microsoft Outlook was renamed Junk E-mail1.  If I tried to rename the folder from within Outlook the option was greyed out so there seemed no simple way to do this, it annoyed me to be honest!

Well today [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/05/11/fixed-outlook-junk-e-mail1-folder/ Bluetooth sync with Nokia N95 Nokia N95 8GB

Since I bought my Nokia N95 it has never synchronised that well with my various bluetooth devices such as my Parrot CK3200LS and Alpine CDE-103BT.  My previous Sony c phones had no problem in keeping the two phonebooks in sync with whatever was on the phone but the N95 had to ‘push’ it’s [...]]]> http://www.mattwaddell.com/2009/05/07/bluetooth-sync-with-nokia-n95/