We love Matt Buchanan and couldn't be happier that he's marching off to make something that's new and brilliant and unique in tech writing. You might've heard that today's his last day, so what better way to send him off to puppier pastures than a list of all the stuff he did wrong. Here's Matt being bad, before he was so very good:



Matt's a hell of a camera writer, but in 2007 he was dropped in the middle of the biggest Nikon event in years with balls for camera knowledge. This is what he pooped out. More »


Matt's been a little down on BlackBerries lately, but there was a time when they excited him, and others. Love all over it. More »



Our "Don't call gadgets sexy" position stems largely from Buchanan's longstanding policy that you can only call a gadget sexy if you actually want to fuck it. We're lubing up the iMacs. More »


Please Stop Calling Gadgets Sexy Dear technology journalists of the world: You know how you called that gadget you just reviewed… Read more


In 2008, we desperately needed an iPhone competitor. The Samsung Instinct wuddin't it, even though The Instinct rocks EV-DO Rev A and GPS. Rock. More »



Says Mat Honan: "matt ended the recession in 2009." More »


We really like Toy Fair, but this roundup wasn't very FTW. More »


Matt's on the record as a French Press hater, but senior reporter Mat Honan did some digging and found out he really loves them. More »


White Geek in Japan: Weird Washing Machines We got the whitest geek we could find and threw him into Japan to see if he'd survive. Here are… Read more


"The dryer situation in Japan is weird." Buchanan thought you should know. More »



Man, why did Matt ever post this really mean—oh wait, that's not Matt. It's a very angry person yelling about him. More »