The New WhoIsMatt.com!

Welcome to the new WhoIsMatt.com!

It has been over a year since I originally created this site and I figured it was about time for an update.  I originally didn’t anticipate an entire site overhaul but after careful consideration, I ended up changing the entire site from the Joomla CMS to the WordPress blogging software.

There were multiple reasons for this change, but mainly for the ease of use and automation of wordpress as well as the aging nature of my Joomla installation (My Joomla theme was configured for Joomla 1.0 which is over a year old.).  Things that took tedious amounts of time for me with Joomla are now quickly  automated with WordPress.  Also, WordPress is more focused on being good at blogging; whereas with Joomla, it is more for general website use.  It is simply easier to utilize WordPress for my needs.  Joomla still holds a special place in my heart though and I have created websites for friends and clients using the CMS.

I would like to put out a big thank you to Jason Schuller at Press75.com.  He supplied the theme and will be updating it soon, meaning even more functionality here.

Everything is currently available on the site except for video downloads right now.  This is mainly due to me needing to ftp 9gigs of video to my server.  Once that is done and everything is synced, you will be able to download things much more easily than ever before.

Feel free to leave me a comment or contact me about the site!

Thanks for reading and watching.

The Conundrum

I picked out the outfit for my grandfathers funeral today. No, he isn’t dead yet, though by the time you read this he might be. I find myself torn right now. Part of me knows that he lived a full life and am glad to see him head on to that big roundup in the sky known as heaven, yet part of me wishes for more time. Time, something that we never seem to have enough of. Time, that I should, could, would, have spent with my grandfather. Time, that I am now spending picking out the outfit that I will wear when I stand next to his grave.

The only thing that is keeping me solidly rooted right now in my thoughts is the knowledge that time isn’t going to stop. And this isn’t the end. My life will still go on, and one day I will see my grandfather again just as I saw him a few days ago. And when I do, he will be perfectly fine. But until that time, I am left just wishing for more. This is definitely a conundrum.