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.

Due to my overall lack of free time my blog has been neglected somewhat. But now that I have some spare time (well at least until Wednesday) I thought I should work on my little creation, so you will gradually see some things being rolled out (or taken away depending on what works best). Of course there will be nothing major (like a layout change) but overall should prove useful (like AJAX script in the comments procedure).

In actual news, well not much has happened, except I did get a chance to drive on the newly completed Pakenham Bypass (at 100km/h not the original 60km/h that I went on last week), I must say it certainly cuts travel times between the edge of nowhere and the middle of nowhere, if only they could build a freeway between my house and 3 or 4 useful destinations!

For those of you who use a feed reader for my blog you may be getting old posts being re-imported by your feed reader. This is due to some of the changes I am making which has resulted in this error. You may continue to receive old posts until everything is back up and running.

Well it is finally Spring which is certainly my favourite time of the year (maybe not so much this year due to those inconsiderate people at VCAA). I’ve spent the last week doing school work as I have 3 SAC’s next week (one of them is a 3 day math SAC) which has meant that I haven’t updated this blog as much as I should. Once exams are over I will be making some pretty cool changes to this blog which will overall make it a more exciting place to visit. One thing I would like to talk about is my sociology excursion on Thursday to an organisation called Urban Seed. They run a lunch program for the homeless in the hope of giving them a safe environment and someone to talk to. It was a pretty interesting excursion (not really relevant to the sociology course, but was good nonetheless) and I encourage you to have a quick look at their website and donate some money if you can.

Yes that’s right, my blog is now a year old and I must say it feels like it has been ten years since I started this blog. However since I began this little thing on blogger it has grown and expanded. It is now hosted on Wordpress with it’s own domain. You can still see the original site here which is still up on blogger. It’s quite cool having it still there because I can refer back to it and see just how pathetic it was. I hope you have all had a wonderful year of xdmatt.com and hopefully there will be many more to come.

Well tomorrow begins what will become my last term 3 ever. There are some key events during this term that will be a milestone like the last musical. It is only recently that I have seriously begun to think about next year and what I plan to do, I mean I have thought about it before but it has always been something that I could say “well I’ll think about that when I get to it” but now it’s getting closer and I can no longer put it off. This term I will be making some serious concrete decisions about my courses for next year. This is where it gets difficult as I am yet to truly decide which path to take (I have left my options open for both). I can go down the IT path or I can go down the ‘Arts’ path with the latter leading on to other career options in journalism, international studies etc. I also have to decide whether I will stay at home or move into my own place, unfortunately if I want to move out I need money which I sorta have sitting there but I need time to access it cause its all locked up in various term deposits etc (hence why I need to make a decision now). So over the next two weeks I will be making these crucial decisions that could well impact on the rest of my life (yes dramatic isn’t it!), anyway it’s getting late and unfortunately I still have stuff to do before I retire for the night. PS. This is probably the most personal post I’ve ever made, I feel like a myspace emo.

Yes that’s right, I finally have a real domain name. Luke was the one that funded my little adventure into the world of domain names. I will in the near future register a couple of other domain names but for now I just have this little baby. In other news today I had no school as it’s exam week, however tomorrow I have the wonderful GAT which is always exciting. Then on Friday I will be down at Castelfield for their musical and then Saturday will be having dinner at Southbank and then heading to Crown.

I got home at about 5:45pm today and spent until 8:30pm sending emails. The recipients have ranged from Vice-Principals to the Director of the OHA. Basically my time is being consumed by school work (not the academic kind) with everyone requiring confirmation, or clarification or approval for something. I also managed to get out of turning up to the Autumn Sports Presentation Night which is good because those sport nights have to be one of the most boring events known to man (Speech Nights are worse however).

Anyway on Saturday I headed down to Keysborough and took some photos of Firsts Soccer (they lost), Firsts Hockey (they lost), Firsts Football (they lost), Firsts Rugby (they lost) and Firsts Netball (they won!!). Overall it wasn’t an overly exciting day with the usual awesome photos on my behalf. Even Lawson was impressed with my soccer photos, which is unusual for him.

The upcoming week will feature a SAC, two Haileybury Online presentations (yay!!!) and some more sports photos. In some slightly more exciting news, in a couple of weeks I will be visiting Castlefield for a day which is good as I always enjoy going to visit our Brighton friends.

Also someone asked me the other day why I bother updating this thing, and the answer is because if I don’t I get these nagging people asking me to update it. I even receive emails from people asking me to update it (seriously people, get a life of your own, I don’t even find mine all that exciting so I don’t know how you possibly could).

Tonight was a busy night at school, with the Aerobics & Dance Display Night, and the subject info night as well. I of course as usual took photos of both. I was a little disappointed with the Aerobics photos but they are usable though so thats alright. After the display night we headed up to Springvale and had dinner which was nice and then of course drove home and I have subsequently spent hours touching up photos.

I was talking to Luke Hawley on the phone just before about visitors to my blog. It has always intrigued me to know whether I know the people that come to my blog, either personally or through association. After looking through my reference sources, search terms and repeat visitor numbers I can conclude that most of the visitors that come to my blog either know me, or at least have some association with my school, friends or family. So I thought that I would post most top ten search terms that I receive visitors from;

1. Matthew Kennedy (including variations such as Matthew Kennedy Haileybury etc.)

2. James Panther (including variations, thanks Pant!!)

3. Haileybury (and variations)

4. Year 12 formal (have had a huge number of searches since the formal)

5. Luke Hawley (including variations, Luke admitted that many of these may be him googling his own name)

6. Cardinia Reservoir (one family trip has led to hundreds of extra visitors to my blog)

7. Connex (finally they are giving me something back)

8. Quotes (including searches for individual quotes)

9. Three (including variations such as “it’s good to be 3″, and Three Hutchinson)

10. Sahil Shekhar (and variations)

So there you have it, if you type in the above words in Google or any other search engine of your choice you will eventually come across this blog. I also receive a number of visitors from other blogs such as Luke’s, Stephen’s and even Pant’s (visitors from Pants blog have died down recently though). I also get a lot of visitors through my MySpace page and Facebook profile.

There are also many people that use Feed readers to view my blog, with the most popular being Google Reader and BlogPulse, although these two readers make up less than 50% of my feed readership with the rest coming from ‘Other’ readers.