Matthew Knott

For a long time, I've wanted to write some songs. I have no musical tallent, but have things I want to put down as lyrics. I wrote 3 or 4 songs, and was intrigued by what I'd created.

The lyrics were based on a combination of life experiences, some exaggerated experiences, and some homage to Therapy? and Nine Inch Nails. Some strong themes came through, but deliberately so. I might refine them and put them up or might just put them up as is.

The catalyst behind the writing was to help Demetrie out with some writers block. I think it may have disturbed him rather than helped him, but time will tell.

In work, I've been scoping out an epc application I'm working on. Being an LEA we have a lot of school site, and a lot of other sites also for collaboration and resources. With the daunting prospect of having around 100 schools still to create, we need a robust solution to allow us to create subsites and make other changes en-masse. To that extent, I'm designing a scriptng engine, so that you can create a template for an entirely new school, or sub-portal, and then deploy it 100+ times with the click of a button and the minimum of human interaction.

You as an administrator can program in a template comprising of Site collections, sub sites, pages, webparts, lists, and groups. It's a huge undertaking, but it'll save an insane number of man hours, ranging into the hundreds, and time is money as they so, so should pay for itself fairly quickly.