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This blog is where Matthew shares the nitty-gritty of what life is about, whether it be the optimal shade of tea, a review of a newly-released film, a passionate expose of theological doctrine, or just a rant about whatever is topical.

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Stuff posted on 9th April 2008

WordPress woes

This evening I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the famous blogging software.  It’s pretty neat, has a nice revamped interface, and introduces a few nice changes along the way.  They’re not differences you’ll notice as a reader though, which is partly why I loaded up a new theme, so you’d have something different to look at!  The theme isn’t mine, incidentally, I couldn’t be bothered to spend all that time developing it and wanted something quickly, so used someone else’s.

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Hail the mighty timewasters!

“Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so.”  So said the great and oft-misquoted Douglas Adams.  And how right he was in his observation.  We fill our lives with so much ’stuff’ that there is rarely time left over to indulge in that age-old tradition of ’sitting and doing nothing’.  That’s something I’ve done precious little of lately, through a combination of an unusually high quantity of work and an influx of new ways to fill that ’spare’ time in between work, sleep and mealtimes.

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