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long time no see

Matt — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:38:08 +0000

Today I met up with a mate that I haven’t seen in about 5 years, thats when I realised that I can sum up the last 5 years of my life in a 5 minute conversation. Anyway I’ve decided (since I’m extremely board) that I would sum up my last 5 years in my blog. So here goes,

2001

September 11th happened when I was on camp
We got a new car

2002

Started Year 7
Got an achievement & effort award
Went to Camp Jungai were we all got sick (I didn’t)
Tattoo – from the City to the Country (or something like that)
Got my dog (marlo)
Had Ms. Stewart as teacher

2003

Started Year 8
Went to Eildon camp
My cat (Nelson) died
Almost got expelled (beyond all reasonable doubt, I love that phrase)
Had Mr. Clayton as class teacher
Graduated from Middleschool

2004

Started Year 9
Went to Central Australia (SA + NT)
Went to Grampians
Went on the Hospitality option (with Luke)
Left my stupid campus
Came to Senior School
Had the Tattoo
Spent a week at Castlefield

2005

Started Year 10 (senior school)
became part of Editorial
Got my phone (Siemens SF65)
Got my Camera
Went to Hamilton Island
Went overseas
got my job

2006

Started Year 11
Had the Tattoo (20th Century- even decades)
Had countless editorial things
got my cat (Simba)
Started my blog
Began Year 12
Became a Prefect
quit my job

Well thats all I can think of for now, but I’ve pretty much had a boring couple of years.

Hello world!

Matt — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:39:59 +0000

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

a new era

Matt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:56:12 +0000

Well as you probably already noticed, it’s a new blog, a new address and a whole new blog service provider. The reasons for moving across to WordPress were simple, it offers greater flexibility, more bandwidth for traffic and gives you a more professional blog. I have imported all my previous blog entries across, however unfortunately I have not been able to import comments.

There are some new features to this blog that weren’t here before so here’s a rundown.

* Theres now an ‘About’ page, giving a brief history of the blog

* There is also a ‘Gallery’ page, at the moment it merely links to my Flickr account, but the blog will soon host its own images.

* A Calendar in the sidebar

* Snap previewing, which enable you to preview links before clicking on them

I will hopefully be including some new features over the coming week including a fully working gallery, as well as user registration etc. Anyway I hope you like the new site design, I know I do!

some great news and a very hectic two days

Matt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:35:30 +0000

Well it’s been a very hectic two days, for my non Victorian, non-Australian readers the temperature has barely got below 35 Degrees (C) in the past two days and only this afternoon has it dipped below thirty. These two days of hot weather have been accompanied by power blackouts, caused by a bushfire in the north east of the state taking out a major transmission line between Victorian and New South Wales. Luckily we were only partially affected by this brownout and lost power for about an hour.

In other news, my Auntie gave birth to a baby girl yesterday, the babies name is Elizabeth Rainsford. I was planning to visit them on Friday however I have been called into work so I will probably have to go next week or on the weekend.

I’m also still waiting for a phone call from Optus, whom were meant to ring me back within 24 hours, however as long as the problem gets fixed I’m not too fussed about the phone call.

optus finally see the light

Matt — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:30:06 +0000

For those of you that are Optus customers, you would know and agree with me that their Optus Zoo sucks. Well today I found out something that has almost convinced me to stay with Optus as a mobile phone carrier, it’s called myZoo. It’s still in the beta stage, but I was made aware of it by an Optus technician whom I was on the phone to for about an hour today trying to fix yet another Optus Zoo related problem.

It looks pretty good, however the mobile account parts (the current Optus Zoo) are not available yet (the links redirect you to the old Optus Zoo). It is a lot like the Ninemsn homepage in terms of the customizable content etc, however Optus have added there own little flair to it. Heres a link to it so you can check it out for yourself http://www.beta.optuszoo.com.au/

an early start

Matt — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:23:56 +0000

Today I went down to Western Port bay fishing, which was rather good (and early). I ended up catching about 6 fish which I was pleased with. In other news thank god its Sunday, this week has been extremely hectic with a combination of work, family and friends, so now hopefully I can at least have most of this week off to do nothing. Also if anyone else tells me how great the new iPhone is going to be and that it is revolutionary I will end up hitting them.

a big announcement over at apple

Matt — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:36:53 +0000

Well most of you would have seen that Apple have announced their new “iPhone”. I’m personally not a fan of apple’s non computer products (ie. iPod). I will of course not be buying an iPhone but will end up buying the cheaper, superior product that will no doubt be made by the likes of Motorola, Nokia, Samsung etc. to counter Apples new shiny gadget. The thing I like about Apple is there products have a huge appeal and practically walk out the store, this forces other companies to come up with new products (or rip off apples) and sell them at a lower price (this is where I come in), I then buy this cheaper, often superior product and then gloat to the iPod wielding, iPhone talking yuppies that I have a better music player, and a better phone and all for a cheaper price.

Anyway thats my little bitch for the day, also this bloody smoke is annoying, however today it wasn’t so bad because it cleared up. Tomorrow I’m going down to Sandringham to have lunch with some people and will no doubt head down to the beach as it will be a scorcher.

a day in the world of myspace

Matt — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:04:44 +0000

Well I have now been a MySpace person for a full day now, and I must admit it isn’t as bad as I thought it was. Obviously my MySpace was created to boost traffic to this blog, and it as certainly done that. Here are some facts and figures,

Saturday 6th January saw more visitors than ever before, and beat the previous amount by 173%
More people visited the blog on Saturday 6th January than during the entire month of December.
Visitors come from 17 Different countries, with 82% coming from Australia, 75% of those from Victoria.
27% of all my visitors use Telstra Bigpond as their ISP, followed by Netspace then Optus.
30% of all my Visitors use Firefox, with IE making up 55%, 10% use Safari
75.44% of all my visitors use United States English, with 19.33% using Australian English, 1.75% use Portugese (Brazil) & 1.75 use French with the rest using UK English.
64.9% have ADSL or faster, with 28% on dialup and 7.02% unknown

Anyway my point is (to Luke) that MySpace works and is certainly increasing traffic to this little blog. Anyway today I walked up to Chadstone and ended up buying some stuff at Borders. As usual I also paid a visit to Krispy Kreme.

the day my individuality died

Matt — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:35:25 +0000

Well I have finally created a MySpace. For those of you that know me best I have vehemently fought against this whole MySpace thing. The reason I have done it is because I need more visitors on this blog, because unfortunately i’m sick of the twenty or so of you, and the poor little guy from spain on dialup and windows 98 (yes I can tell what type of internet connection you have, where you are and what OS you have) being the only ones that look at this site.

In other great news, well I have none, its been a pretty boring weekend so far. I was going to go out tonight (by which I mean Saturday) but unfortunately on Friday I got really badly sunburnt while swimming and can now barely move (I can still type though).

To go to my MySpace, click here (don’t forget to bookmark it)

a trip to the mornington peninsula

Matt — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:32:24 +0000

Well today we headed down to the Mornington Peninsula (Rosebud to be precise) to visit my grandmother. We had lunch at the Rosebud Hotel and then went to the beach where we swam for about two hours. While I was down there I went into EB Games and bought Medieval II Total War (the sequel to Medieval Total War) and Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition (I’m a sucker for those flight sim games). Meanwhile my day only cost me about $175, which I was pretty happy with. The rest of my week is rather uneventful, except I’ll have to walk up to Chadstone to go to Borders to spend my gift vouchers, but that’s no huge effort.