Well as some of you may know, Wordpress 2.5 was released a couple of days ago. There is usually two ways to upgrade, you can download the file yourself and subsequently go through the whole upgrade process yourself as well. Alternatively you can wait for programs like Fantastico and your web host to bring out the new upgrade in a one step process. Usually I wait for the latter however this time I downloaded a very handy upgrade plugin that took all the pain of upgrading away. So now I’m running on the new Wordpress version (which is much better than the old one by the way) and it took less than 5 minutes.

There isn’t much other news to report, was a pretty stock standard week, with a few key events that a) I have already discussed or b) I can’t discuss.

Also this is post # 200, who would of thought that I would keep it going so long.

Today was surprisingly busy with the whole moving and all. I also had to head down to work to sort out shifts etc, but at least it’s all sorted. After running back and forwards and driving all over the place I went out for the monthly dinner with, well the people that turn up every month (I have no control over these things). So anyway that was relatively exciting. Apart from that not much has been happening, except of course the fact that the Year 12 magazine is finally printed and ready to be posted (about time!!!).

This year is the first Leap Year this blog has experienced and of course this post is the first post on the 29th of February. This once every 4 year event adds an extra day to our yearly calendar and ensures that February has 29 days. I hope everyone enjoys their ‘leap day’, you might as well since it only comes around once every 4 years.

Well I’ve spent the last day fixing some of the problems with my blog and I’m happy to announce that you will no longer be prompted in spanish to add comments. Other issues fixed include adding proper META tags in order for the website to be better identified by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista. I have also added geographical targeting to my domain meaning that it will now appear in Google as an Australian search result, which has resulted in the my humble blog appearing as the top search result if you search for ‘Matthew Kennedy’ in Google Australia. One thing that I’m still working on fixing is my RSS Feed which seems to be having all sorts of issues.

There was once a time in my life where my parents would pay for anything I needed; clothing, food, entertainment; everything. However recently there has been an alarming trend, my parents pay for less, yet I require more. There are certain things that you never really think about until you receive the bill for them, for example car insurance, car registration, car repairs, gas (for the car), and sometimes even car parking (picking up a trend?). Add this all together with things like alcohol (admittedly a non-essential but still important), Uni textbooks (seriously, $90 for a 75 page book, someones having a laugh at my expense) and after all this your once healthy account balance is not so healthy and your left wondering whether you will have enough money in the account to pay for the account service fee (which if there isn’t you ironically get charged another excessive fee because the bank had to borrow money off itself to give to itself). So is there an easy solution to this problem? well of course there is, get a job (one that is more than 1 day a week that is) which is something that is being worked upon as we, well I, speak.

Well today was the big day. So at 7:30pm I went to the closest ‘participating’ newsagent and bought the special edition paper which of course had the uni offers in it. Anyway I’m happy to announce that I received an offer for Arts at Monash University which is definitely a relief. I am very happy with my offer and over the next few days I will way it up with offers from Universities in NSW (which come out on Thursday I think). So I hope everyone is pleased with their offer and for all those that missed out I wish you luck in Round 2.

After a extended absence, Luke and myself decided to catch up over a quick lunch and a movie. So we headed to Southland (TGI Friday’s) and then went and saw I Am Legend. The movie was better than I expected it to be and a lot shorter which I think is a good thing. I then headed home and washed my car (something I have not done for quite a few weeks, and don’t worry only tank water was used).

Anyway tomorrow I will be hopefully beginning to finish the Year 12 magazine and finally get that out the way, as well as some other stuff that needs to be taken care of. Also as someone pointed out today, Uni offers are just over a week away (I’ll finally find out where I’m spending the next 3 years of my life)

Well my holiday down at Sorrento has finally ended and it marks pretty much the end of my ‘transitional’ break. I will over the next few weeks begin to get back into work mode and I will find myself down at Haileybury over the next couple of weeks finishing of the Year 12 magazine as well as some other little things. Well that’s all for now since my non air conditioned room will soon be approaching the 40 degree mark if my computer remains on, so I think I’ll go sit in front of the air conditioner for a while.

Well 2007 has finally ended and what a year it has been. It amazes me just how fast 2007 went, it seems like it was only yesterday that I was recapping 2006. So here’s what happened in my life in 2007.

• Turned 18 (probably the biggest thing to happen)
• Subsequently went to Crown and a great time was had by all (you all know the story)
• Got my license (again a very big thing)
• Began, and successfully completed Year 12
• Graduated from Haileybury.
• Went to the Year 12 Formal
• My Great Grandmother passed away
• Had a fantastic year as a School Prefect and Vice Captain of Editorial
• Bought an iPod (who’d of thought!)
• Also bought a GPS (yeah I know it was only a couple of days ago but it was a highlight of 2007)
• Went to the Boxing Day Test
• Drastically improved this blog by getting a domain name, a host and moving it to the Wordpress platform
• Went to Sydney to visit my brother and see the city (twice)
• Went down to Phillip Island for ’schoolies’
• Saw the school play ‘Inheritance’
• Saw the school musical ‘Fame’
• Saw the Castlefield musical “A High School Musical” (Luke also went to see it as he “received” tickets for his birthday)
• Applied for University, and received my VCE results.

So that’s 2007 in review, I wish everyone a happy new year and I look forward to recapping what I hope will be a wonderful 2008.

For those who use a blog reader to read my blog you would have noticed many posts being re-imported, the reason; well my entire blog crashed and I had to re-import every post that I have made since moving over to my webhost. However everything looks good now, but I still have to get some things up and running again (ie. the lighting effects on the gallery pics). So sorry for the downtown and subsequent post re-importation, but it was necessary to keep this blog alive.