Finally, after 13 years of schooling, it's all finished! I had my last exam on November 16th, and the NASHS presentation evening was held last Tuesday night. And that's it... . It's great to be able to look back on 13 years of school, yet there remains a part of me that is probably missing school already. Or maybe just missing the daily interactions with everyone - being at home now is incredibly boring . So I'm looking for a job... not too sure where I'll be going yet, but it is my intent to take a year off and the commence university in 2009.

So long...

Matt

It's been ages since I've posted - maybe a blog style site really isn't my thing. Maybe one day I'll work on designing my site - written from scratch .

Until then, I'll use this... Lately things have been relatively uneventful. I got pretty good marks on my exams (very good, actually). School is dragging on as usual, although next week is country week (== not much work). I also had my birthday, and finally got my license . Wonderful.

Cheers,

Matt

It's been a while (over a week) since I last posted. Since then, not a huge amount has happened. The main reason I havn't been posting anything is my school work - while I don't spend endless hours toiling over it, it is still a substantial amount. When I'm not doing it, I feel guilty, so either way I don't get much else done.

So, in other news, I havn't been doing much else on my computer or in anything...

Cheers,

Matt

For once, I had little homework to do on the weekend, so I decided to download and install the newly released Ubuntu Studio. Unfortunately, the torrent I was using was rather slow, so it took me almost 24 hours to download the 867 Mb ISO. Anyway, I burned it to DVD, and installed .

The result is a very nice looking system. The first thing I noticed were the beautiful themes and lovely startup sounds... it took me only a few minutes to get everything running how I wanted it. It runs much faster than my usual setup, however I suspect this is only because my usual setup is running a lot more (two web servers, indexing services, etc). In any case, it´s a very nice system to play with. Not doing much audio / graphics / video editing I can´t say much about that, but there´s a plethora of tools available.

On a side note, I did get a story thrown together for English. I won't be posting it online though . I basically wrote an alternative ending for one of the stories that we had been studying for English.

Cheers,

Matt

My current English assessment consists of a piece of creative writing in relation to our 'short stories' unit. So far I've gotten nowhere, and it's due on Wednesday (two days time). So far I've decided on little, apart from the fact that a career as a writer is not for me.

Stay tuned, I may post the finished product on here if I'm proud of it - unlikely.

Cheers,

Matt