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Filed under: Essays, Personal | Tags: Birthday (7), Resolutions (9) | January 11th, 2009
Twenty-Five
Today I am a quarter of a century old. To be honest I never thought I would be this old, it was a number beyond where I could imagine or visualize but the last few years have just gone by in a blur and here I am, 25 years young and finally able to rent a car without paying an age penalty.
Following up from the open source resolutions, here’s what I’m going to aim for this year in no particular order:
- Learn a language where WP has a big impact (probably Spanish).
- Take more videos, post at least 2 a month.
- Post 10,000 photos in 2009.
- Post at least one book a month I’ve enjoyed.
- Don’t try to do everything myself.
- Redesign Ma.tt! (And get back up in the search engine rankings for “Matt” on Google.)
- Post more personal stuff. (Like this.)
- Spend more time working with and coaching other young entrepreneurs and startups.
- Donate to 5 Open Source projects that touch my life daily.
- Learn to make/prepare one food item a month.
- Launch, launch, launch! (Real artists ship.)
- Get people to capitalize WordPress correctly, and stop using the fake mis-proportioned W.
(Here are some correct ones.) - Print my favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame.
- Reinstate WordPress Wednesdays and make it easier to do an amazing photoblog with WP.
(Hat tip to Boris Mann, Benji, Niall Kennedy, John Roberts, Titanas, Network Geek, Avinash, Kirb, Julie, Mark Jaquith, and Kabatology for the resolutions.)
This is the seventh year I’ve blogged my birthday: 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, and 24. If you had asked me 7 years ago where I would be today I couldn’t have imagined all of the amazing things that have happened, the incredible people I’ve met, and the communities that I’ve become a part of. Thank you. Here’s to the next 25.
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
ElGekoNegro | January 11th, 2009 @ 2:37 pm |
Happy Birthday, Matt.
Justin Carmony | January 11th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm |
Great goals. I recently hit 25 a few months ago, and I’m still feel its impossible that I’m “that old” (and 30, 35, 40 will only come sooner),
Good luck on the goals, learning a second language is great. Visiting WordPress blogs in Spanish has really helped me keep it up for me. My goal in 2009 is to work on my Spanish again so my accent sounds native again.
Chris Rawlinson | January 11th, 2009 @ 2:50 pm |
Matt,
Happy Happy and so hope you had a great day. All the best for 09 am sure will be a good one, Was a pleasure meeting you last year and hope to see you again in South Africa in 09.
Cheers mate,
Chris
)
p.s peeps born in Jan are the best! (mines on the 17
disconnesso | January 11th, 2009 @ 2:51 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt
Javier Aroche | January 11th, 2009 @ 2:58 pm |
Congrats for the century quarter!
Glad to know you (possibly) gonna learn Spanish, we’re a lot of people running WP.
With the redesign, what a about an iphone friendly version?
Cheers
wolly | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:02 pm |
Happy Birthday
Jonathan | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:02 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! Thanks for WordPress and all the best for the next 25 years!
John | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm |
Happy birthday! The world wouldn’t be the same without you and all the great stuff you’ve done for the community. So, thank you.
donnacha | WordSkill | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:12 pm |
Oh …
… I guess this means you’re not taking on board my suggestion of hunting down and shooting the WordPress Direct guys then, huh?
yemoonyah | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:28 pm |
Happy Birthday !!! 2009 is gonna be great year for Capricorns
Boris Mann | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:47 pm |
Printing photos of people is an excellent one. I printed some photos of mine taken over the last year, and I definitely want to a) print more and b) take more print-worthy photos.
Happy Birthday, Matt!
daju | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:48 pm |
Happy 25th!
Rick Beckman | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:51 pm |
Happy birthday, Matt! Definitely some lofty goals there; best wishes for this year!
hami | January 11th, 2009 @ 3:58 pm |
huh .. you are quite busy person (yearly)
Fepe | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:05 pm |
Happy birthday Matt
Or should I say “Feliz cumpleaños Matt” :p (You’ll understand it somewhere in the next 365 days :p).
I loved that one about the picture, it would be nice to get a framed picture from someone I know. So go for it.
Austin | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm |
Pretty cool post. It took me forever to notice the difference between the two WordPress logos. The first one is slightly wider.
Austin | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:16 pm |
Oh. I forgot to say Happy Birthday!
PT | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:18 pm |
25 years old, congratulations
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edy | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:21 pm |
happy birthday, Matt
Rick | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:21 pm |
Felix compleanos, Matt. In the spirit of learning a new language (Spanish), here’s a link to the happy birthday song, Las Mananitas, that we all sing down here in Mexico on these special days:
http://www.pvscene.com/?p=237.
Even if this link doesn’t show up in the comments, go to it and receive the wishes.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for WordPress.
Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:34 pm |
Happy Birthday!
I have a friend who takes photos, and then prints, frames, and gives them to people. She’s already given me a group picture from New Year’s Eve. I take lots of pictures but rarely print, so it’s a real treat. Your resolution is good and will be appreciated.
As a loyal WP user, thanks for all you do. Have a great birthday!
Kristan | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:38 pm |
“Print my favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame.”
That’s my favorite one.
You’ve accomplished a lot of impressive things in a relatively short amount of time. I hope I can say the same in 2 years.
Mike Little | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:53 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt.
Thank you for the last 5, and I look forward to the next 25.
All the very best. Mike
John (Human3rror) | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:58 pm |
congrats. you’re the man. keep up the great work, we’ll see you back in another 25…!
Mark McWilliams | January 11th, 2009 @ 4:59 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt!
– I’m not that far behind you, just about 7 and a half years! (As I’m only 17!) – So still a kid really, but into this kind of stuff, and love WordPress!
One of these days, I’ll have to have a little read back through some of your blog posts from years ago. Any you’d recommend I take a look at, as there’s quite a lote of ‘em! In fact, this might be a nice idea for a post itself. What do you think?
Looking forward to many more years of WordPress updates, improvements, and successes! It’s a joy to work with, and I’d love it to be taken to the next level.
Enjoy the day!
Thanks
Mark
TripleM | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:02 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt..
I couldn’t make it to Dubai.. for Wordpress meet up…maybe we will meet the next time.
Alejandro Martinez | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:02 pm |
Happy Birthday! And if you want learn spanish, we can talk in spanish using Skype xD
Isaak Kwok | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:03 pm |
Happy Birthday, Matt!
Tina | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:05 pm |
Happy birthday Matt!
JMorris | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:08 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! You’ve done extremely well for yourself at such a young age. You should be proud!
Geof F. Morris | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:23 pm |
Happy birthday, Matt. 10,000 photos! That’s a lot.
Toni | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:29 pm |
Happy Birthday my friend!
I’ll join your pledge to learn Spanish
Douglas | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:33 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! That is a terrific set of resolutions.
Fiona | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:50 pm |
Happy Birthday! (I didn’t ever think about the proportions of the WP logo!)
Lester Chan | January 11th, 2009 @ 5:54 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt!
money | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:07 pm |
Happy birthday,Matt!
You are only 3-year older than me.But you have aceive such a great success.Terrific!
Rai | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm |
kudos on your bday and life in general, im a new member in wordpress, and i like to read real life books (blogs), but dont know if i could be an author of my day to day autobiography, so i wanna congratulate the fact that u can and also, awesome background, it looks so colorful.
p.s. i speak spanish and i can help whenever u need it.
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Anthony | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:21 pm |
Happy Birthday! And good luck on the resolutions!
Casey | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:22 pm |
Happy Bday Matt. Yeah I remember turning 25 and thought it felt a bit odd. Now I am just a few weeks past 30 and it feels like it went by even faster.
Make sure you take time to enjoy life! Oh and ill try to help with the Matt rankings with a post and a link to ma.tt sooner or later.
MadéJunés | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:24 pm |
Haapy Birthday
Giuseppe | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:24 pm |
Happy birthday Matt! Excited to see some of those photos this year!
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Jaypee | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:44 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! Like what you said earlier, you’re now on version 2.5 hehe
Btw, it was nice meeting you at WordCamp. Hope you have fun on your special day and God bless!
Deny Sri Supriyono | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:48 pm |
happy birthday, matt!
may all resolutions becoming true in this year.
wish you can do all the very best and coming in useful in the rest of your life.
Douglas Bell | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:49 pm |
Happy birthday, Matt!
Just think where you might be in the year 2034 (twenty-five years from now!)…
Bryan Villarin | January 11th, 2009 @ 6:57 pm |
You rock, Matt. Happy birthday!
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Uchu Keling | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:23 pm |
Happy 25th Birthday Matt.. I am 41 today.. great to share the same birthday with the person who makes WordPress a great application.
Marcus Hochstadt | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:25 pm |
Congraz, Matt!
How could this look like — spend more time working with and coaching other young entrepreneurs?
iRonnie | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:27 pm |
Happy birthday Matt! May you have a rewarding and fun-filled year…
Roland Tanglao | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:30 pm |
happy birthday matt! thanks for wordpress! thanks for being a positive world changing force!
…Roland
Chris Thomson | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:35 pm |
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all of your hard work you’ve contributed over the years, Matt.
Nuo | January 11th, 2009 @ 7:53 pm |
Happy birthday, Matt!
Learn a language where WP has a big impact – actually you can take Chinese into consideration too
Jamie | January 11th, 2009 @ 8:26 pm |
Happy belated birthday!
Hope you have a blast, and treat yourself to a day off.. you deserve it.
0p0 | January 11th, 2009 @ 8:35 pm |
Thank you for the gorgeous WordPress, projects like this make life easier and even happier by providing such a beautiful piece of software.
Cheers and happy birthday!
Chip | January 11th, 2009 @ 8:54 pm |
Wow wow happy birthday Matt. Can’t believe you’re only 25 considering everything amazing you have done!!
You’re more than right to choose Spanish. It’s one of the most beautiful language in the world! Feliz cumpleaños. Looking forward to more of your personal blog posts.
And it’s perfect if you can make photo uploading on WP easier
endhoot | January 11th, 2009 @ 9:10 pm |
happy birthday, matt! waiting for you to come to indonesia
Michael Moore | January 11th, 2009 @ 9:11 pm |
Feliz Cumpleanos Matt !
Suggestions for learning Spanish…
1.I really started to learn Spanish when I picked up a little book at City Lights in fall of ‘66…The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca… poems on facing pages..one page in Spanish, facing the page in English…. you learn how to express from the heart… here is an Amazon link
/www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Federico-Garcia-Lorca/dp/0811216225
Neruda, et al work as well
2. Whenever you travel in Mexico, Spain and Latin America… carry a dictionary, get away from gringo hotels restaurants and hangouts… make a fool of yourself (and you WILL make some very funny missteps) People will laugh a little, help you… and love you for trying
3. Listen to music in Spanish… so many artists, so little space to make a list… Cafe Tacuba, Molotov, Calle 13, Orisha, Ricardo Arjona… just getting started
4. If you read a book by Garcia Marquez or another author whose native language es el Castellano, get the version in Spanish and keep your dictionary handy…it’s work, but so is learning to play the sax or write code like it’s poetry
5. If you are unattached, the best way to learn is to get a profesora (or sleeping dictionary)…in other words, a girl friend from whichever part of the Spanish speaking world…you will pick it up really quickly that way….
Gary LaPointe | January 11th, 2009 @ 9:14 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt!!!
Jeana | January 11th, 2009 @ 9:38 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt!
I hope you achieve all your goals in 2009 plus more.
I turned 25 this past October and realized just how fast life goes by.
Enjoy!
Jeana
Danesh | January 11th, 2009 @ 10:13 pm |
Happy Birthday Dude!! Have a great one.
Thanks for the great work you bring the blogging world
Dries Buytaert | January 11th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm |
Congratulations, Matt! Rock on.
Mark Jaquith | January 11th, 2009 @ 10:42 pm |
I struggle with this, too. I’m particular about how I want things done, and I calculate the likelihood of someone else doing it in that exact way to be near zero. So I do things, or they don’t get done. It’s frustrating because you end up spending a lot of times doing things that aren’t furthering your life goals, or a lot of time stressing about all the menial things that need to get done but you’re not doing.
I’m trying to do better, starting with hiring a housekeeper.
Fredelig | January 11th, 2009 @ 10:54 pm |
Congrats, Matt!.
That’s a big list. If you can do half it will still be great!
Albert | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:11 pm |
Happy Birthday, Matt.
We share a birthday day but I’m a little older than you (I’m 36).
Unknown Nobody | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:14 pm |
Happy Birthday… though it is a day late. Your right about time flying. My twenties went by so quick. I am now 30 and I bet I will be 40 before I know it.
Cupid Blogger | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:29 pm |
Hi matt, happy birthday to you…Looking forward to meet you in Wordpress Wordcamp Indonesia 2009
Jeremy | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:46 pm |
No, no. Thank you!
Andrew Ferguson | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:50 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! I’ll be turning 23 in a couple weeks and agree that I never thought I’d get to this age…I feel old.
Regarding 10,000 photos: I think that’s a lot. And as someone who takes my fair share of photographs, I think your placing quantity over quality. Personally, I’d rather see 1000 good photos than 10k okay photos. Even better, 100 amazing photos.
Why do you want to post 10,000 photos?
P.S. Thanks for WordPress!
Matt | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:18 pm |
For me the photos are mostly auto-biographical. I don’t do a great job right now of highlighting the good ones, of which there are usually only 1-2 per album.
Fernando | January 11th, 2009 @ 11:58 pm |
Happy birthday Matt!
I’m really surprised, you’re so young! You have made a lot of good things and a lot are going to come. Congratulations!
Ben | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:29 am |
Congrats on your 25th birthday!
strk | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:30 am |
Happy birthday and best whishes for your wonderful new generation business
George Serradinho | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:50 am |
Good luck with all your goals.
Tim | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:53 am |
Happy birthday, Matt. Thanks for Wordpress. As the senior citizen said to you at Wordcamp2006, you are one very impressive young man.
Not so young any more
Jonathan Dingman | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:54 am |
Did no one else catch up on that this was Matt’s birthday?
Happy birthday Matt! Still a young guy, but very, very successful.
You’ve done some amazing things Matt, quite a few things to be proud of.
Gil | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:55 am |
Happy Birthday!
Aahz | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:58 am |
Happy Birthday, Matt! As a result of Automattic I owe you so much that you’ll never even realize, and yet all I can give you is a birthday greeting here and in my Weekly WordPress Roundup.
Thank you! And Happy Birthday once again!
Doron | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:59 am |
Congratulations matt!
“If you had asked me 7 years ago where I would be today I couldn’t have imagined all of the amazing things that have happened…”
I wish you that in seven years from now you will write this same sentence again.
Karel Segers | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:08 am |
Happy Birthday Matt.
Be prepared: life gets better and better after 25!!
Cheers from downunder,
Karel
Vijay | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:13 am |
Many many happy returns of the day matt.
Wish you a great life ahead.
You are doing great work. Cheers.
Thejesh GN | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:24 am |
Happy Birthday and All the very best for 2009.
markku | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:29 am |
Happy birthday Matt!
Alejandro Urrutia | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:30 am |
Nice list Mat, I have one too, but mine’s from a 30 years person. Like you and others says: I never imagined myself with this age… If I take a look to myself I still think about me as a twenty something
Nice to know that you are going to learn Español. Now I’m learning mandarin and maybe french
Luke | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:08 am |
Happy 25th mate! I’m liking that idea of making it easier to make a photoblog, I’ll be keeping my eye out for that
Mohammad | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:13 am |
hi .
good luck matt !
That’s it.
Eviwidi | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:23 am |
Hi Matt, firstly I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY…!!!! Wishing all the best for you!
By the way, I’m surprising about:
“Print my favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame”
Are you realy to do that?
I’m also very happy if you do to me..:) *I wish*
Thanks for information about the WP logo.
On next Wordcamp 2009 in Jakarta, how long do you will stay in Jakarta?
Will you visiting Bali island or Lombok?
Its many beautiful place in Indonesia, I hope you can enjoy your trip, and I can see your beautiful picture from Indonesia in this blog.
Cheerz..
-Evi-
Daniel Craig Jallits | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:30 am |
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday and another successful year Ma.tt!
Ajay | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:39 am |
Happy Birthday Matt!!!
I’ve blogged about my birthday for five years now, 22 till 26. Would love to see an update post on what you did today
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Yves | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:58 am |
“don’t try to do everything [yourself]” is most important. It will let you do more things for your relatives, friends, colleagues and by yourself.
Happy birthday, Matt !
John | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:00 am |
Happy Birthday Matt! Good luck on the next 25, not that you’ll need luck, just more of the savvy and skill that got you through the first. Cheers!
Michael Torbert | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:06 am |
Happy Birthday Matt. Hopefully you’re able to achieve all of your prescribed goals this year.
AS | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:08 am |
Happy Birthday!
Dennis Morhardt | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:34 am |
Happy Birthday, learn German, it’s bigger than the Spanish community
. And for the WordCamp in Germany.
sabin | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:56 am |
Happy birthday!
Claudius | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:07 am |
Happy birthday!
Well, your 2nd for Matt, so that’s not too bad: http://www.google.com/search?q=matt&pws=0
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Dario Salvelli | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:31 am |
I’m also 25 (in February, 26
). Happy Birth Matt! 
Alex Sysoef | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:31 am |
Happy Birthday Matt!
So much accomplished by only 25! Keep it going and your life is already made huge impact on life’s of others and at this rate I don’t see it stopping!
Happy Birthday!
Conz | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:00 am |
cheers to that!
Twanna A. Hines (Funky Brown Chick) | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:00 am |
… and the 25 after the next 25.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Frank | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:06 am |
Happy birthday! Thanks for your work on WordPress and your attitude to open source.
Alex | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:19 am |
Hey Matt, congrats on your big 25! Hope you can realize all your goals and you will have another successfully and healthy 25 years and hopefully more.
Maybe a goal for 2010 would be: Learn an additional language, this time German
Hope to see you at WordCamp in Germany!
Shaibanii | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:41 am |
Happy birthday Matt!
woddfellow2 | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:45 am |
Happy belated birthday!
Hyder | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:48 am |
Happy Birthday Matt! I remember being 25 five years and thinking what I would be doing five years from then, working for myself was number one on the list.
Thanks to WordPress, and You, for contributing to that dream.
erica | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:59 am |
Happy Birthday!
Pulpo | January 12th, 2009 @ 6:12 am |
That one about learning Spanish I vote for!!!!
Next Wordcamp in Argentina could be nice practice
javipas | January 12th, 2009 @ 6:12 am |
Happy birthday, Matt! Thank you and all your team for this really great work you’re doing.
Good luck with your resolutions. Especialmente con la primera
Carson | January 12th, 2009 @ 6:22 am |
Congrats on the milestone. I promise you that your next 25 will pass a lot faster than your first. I know. I’m heading toward the finish line on my third 25.
dinu | January 12th, 2009 @ 6:28 am |
happy birthday !!!
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huda | January 12th, 2009 @ 6:46 am |
Happy birthday..
I like the open source resolution.. nice idea
Phil v. Sassen | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:01 am |
Best wishes from Berlin Germany!
Rosa J.C. | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:25 am |
It’s great to hear you’re thinking of learning Spanish.
Marcelo Lynch | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:40 am |
Well, Matt, congratulations! Without you the ying yang woulb be a chaos.
I had the pleasure to meet you in WordCamp Argentina 2008 (I was the kid), and it was one of the most memorable moments of my life. Thanks for all you’ve done, and… keep on track!
Code is poetry. Matt is the poet.
rafael | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:52 am |
FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS (IN SPANISH, MEXICO)
ZUMGEBUSTAG VIEL GLÜCK
heather | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:53 am |
An awesome set of goals. Happy birthday, Matt!
Network Geek | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:55 am |
Hey, thanks for the “hat tip”!
Hopefully, you’ll remember that this site was “Photo Matt” once upon a time and be motivated to get back into sharing your photography again this year. It’s so easy to lose our passions as we get older and get caught up in the race to get more “stuff”. Besides, you go so many interesting places, there have to be lots of opportunities to take pictures!
Have a great year!
Julie | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:56 am |
This is a great list! I’m excited for all of these, and they’re not even my resolutions!
Chip | January 12th, 2009 @ 8:11 am |
Happy birthday! Keep it up with your goals. I’ll be watching you.
joaon | January 12th, 2009 @ 8:26 am |
Congrats, Matt! And thanks for the legacy you’ve already left behind!
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Augustin | January 12th, 2009 @ 8:48 am |
Happy birthday Matt! Good luck with your (numerous) resolutions, and all my regards from France !
=)
Luxiano | January 12th, 2009 @ 8:55 am |
Happy Birthday, Matt!! I wish I have goals for this year
gene | January 12th, 2009 @ 9:20 am |
congratulations.
thanks for wordpress.
John Biddle | January 12th, 2009 @ 9:30 am |
I am amazed at what you have already accomplished by such a young age. It’s a wonderful thing how the accelerating rate of change in our knowledge, our technology and our access to information have expanded the opportunities for everyone with the will to create and achieve.
Thanks for Wordpress, which is making my web life easier and more productive.
Sean | January 12th, 2009 @ 9:51 am |
Happy birthday Matt. Not only can you now rent a car without paying an age penalty, your car insurance will also go down. Also, you if you think time flies now, it only goes faster once you hit 25. I’m not sure why but one day I woke up and was in my 30’s. In closing, I like your goals for 2009. Keep up the great work and again, happy birthday!
maya | January 12th, 2009 @ 9:56 am |
Really nice post, I love the idea about sending your favorite person a picture frame – really sweet.
Mike | January 12th, 2009 @ 9:59 am |
25 years old and look how much you’ve accomplished…great job…;)
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MY-Hou | January 12th, 2009 @ 10:09 am |
Happy Birthday?
Maria | January 12th, 2009 @ 11:28 am |
I’d be glad to teach you spanish
Happy Bday, Matt!
Matt | January 12th, 2009 @ 11:33 am |
Happy BIrthday Matt! I’m 25 this year too. I spotted your dip in Google rankings the other day – as photomatt used to be right up the top.
Mark | January 12th, 2009 @ 11:44 am |
Happy birthday Matt!
Thats quite an impressive list of resolutions!
Good luck in accomplishing those.
Giant | January 12th, 2009 @ 11:49 am |
Just wait until you’re asked if you want the senior special… not a good day.
SE7EN | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm |
Happy birthday
I’m looking forward to the redesign
Andy Gongea | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:33 pm |
Cheers Matt! Happy Birthday!!!
Nicolas | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:36 pm |
Happy Birthday!
tony conrad | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:55 pm |
joyeaux anniversaire cher ma.tt
j0an | January 12th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm |
hi matt!
happy birthday from argentina!
Banago | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm |
Congrulation Matt! This must be a very special year for you – WordPress is very fit and healthy right now
I think you should add the 2009 resolutions one more thing – you should attend (and help organize) a WordPress camp in a in-development country as mine – Albania.
Albania is very near to Italy – a couple hundred kilometers. I tried to attend the WP camp at Italy last year – but I had to wait 2 months, until the Italian consulate employers (the ones that deliver visas) got back from holidays. So I missed it. Again now, you have to ask for a visa 2 months before you can get it.
Organizing a WP camp in Albania would be great because many other people around Albania who have to get visas to go to Italy or other developed countries would benefit by coming easily to Albania.
What do you think Matt?
Matt | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:27 pm |
I’m open to going any place where there is a WordCamp.
There are a lot though so might need to cut down on travel this year.
Guntram Engelhardt | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:21 pm |
Happy Birthday, Matt!!! Hope you will have a nice day. With all the things you like and those which make this day specially..
And thanx for WP!
Mathew Sanders | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:40 pm |
Wow! Happy birthday! You’re so young!!
Chelmus Mihai | January 12th, 2009 @ 1:49 pm |
you are the man!!! happy new year
John Lynn | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:18 pm |
Well done Matt. I love the goals and Happy Birthday. It’s really quite amazing to see what you’ve done in your short life. It was a pleasure to meet you and here you speak at WordCamp Las Vegas. Looking forward to all the ongoing changes with WordPress.
hae min cho | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:21 pm |
Wow. That’s really an inspiring list. I like that you have “Post more personal stuff,” as one of your goals. It’s a rare quality to be so warm and authentic in your public as well as private persona. Happy birthday, Matt! May all your hopes and intentions for this year come bounding forth in ways even you could not have imagined! “You’ve got the world on a string…”
HiMY SYeD | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:41 pm |
Well old man,
You still have ten years until you’re 35.
And 35 is the upper limit of adolescence.
Feliz Navidad.
~ HiMY! ~
Manuel Reis | January 12th, 2009 @ 2:54 pm |
Hey, just missed it by a day. Happy B-day.
And, please, come to Portugal for a future WordCamp!
Pande | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:24 pm |
Feliz cumpleaños!
I hope you understand my greeting soon!
Patrick Havens | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:25 pm |
Well Matt, you survived your birthday. Do anything interesting?
And as a Resolution you should of had on your list.
To continue to live your life trying to positively effect the people around you that you can.
I always love to try and keep that one handy.
Rich | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:40 pm |
Happy (belated) Birthday, Matt!
Great resolutions, too…. I just hope I don’t have to see all 10,000 of those photos in the WordPress Planet newsfeed! (pretty please???)
Ptah Dunbar | January 12th, 2009 @ 3:49 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! I can’t believe your only 4 years older than me! I knew you were young, but man! lol
Congrats on the OS resolutions, have an awesome year!
Wayne | January 12th, 2009 @ 4:32 pm |
Happy Belated Birthday.
I’m turning 33 myself next Saturday. When I pause and think that – were you to stop at the age of 25 you would have contributed more to the world the the rest of my years combined… well… I have a little trouble breathing.
May your 25th year see you conquer the largest goals yet.
Cristhian | January 12th, 2009 @ 5:48 pm |
Felicidades matt, departe de un usuario venezolano fiel 100% a wordpress.
Un Saludo, grande!!!
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Brian Elliott | January 12th, 2009 @ 7:24 pm |
Happy belated birthday. I just realized we share the same birthday. I had a great one, hope you did too. Thanks for giving us WordPress!
Dianso | January 12th, 2009 @ 8:29 pm |
Happy Bday Matt.
Pablo | January 12th, 2009 @ 11:43 pm |
Happy Birthday!!!
Zé | January 13th, 2009 @ 6:26 am |
Happy Birthday and hurry up learning Spanish. We’ll start Portuguese in 2010
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awi | January 13th, 2009 @ 7:05 am |
When I hit twenty-five, the thought of being a quarter of a century old made me feel old. But at least you have a lot of successes to show for it.
Belated happy birthday, Matt!
Lucia | January 13th, 2009 @ 7:42 am |
Feliz cumpleaños !!!!!!
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inna boren | January 13th, 2009 @ 9:04 am |
happy birthday. to bad we are homeless right now, otherwise we would love to have you over for steak. when we are settled in you should jet out and check out the new boren bbq scene.
Matt | January 13th, 2009 @ 9:47 am |
I will take you up on that.
Gary | January 13th, 2009 @ 10:50 am |
Happy Birthday. You’ve done good things so far, but twenty-five is just a drop in the bucket, kiddo. However, I’m sure you will continue to do well over the next 25 years, especially if you stay focused on the goal that every ‘aging’ person should strive for – senior citizen discounts at Denny’s.
ecc1977 | January 13th, 2009 @ 11:03 am |
A belated Happy Birthday to you, Matt. Inspiring stuff, those resolutions. Makes me feel like I should write some of my own (and stick to ‘em).
The “Launch, Launch, Launch” line is very inspiring. Real artists ship. Got to remember that, this year.
Camilo | January 13th, 2009 @ 11:32 am |
25 is the new 40, so count your blessings. About the Spanish thing… watch novelas. These are extremely campy yet have excellent grammar, vocabulary and diction.
Or, you know, you can go out there in the Mission.
ceci | January 13th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm |
Buenísimo! and you will be able to enjoy of Gabriel García Marquez
Abbie Sanderson | January 13th, 2009 @ 1:19 pm |
I love this idea and I just might copy it:
“Print my favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame.”
Good luck with your list!
Sebastian | January 13th, 2009 @ 2:33 pm |
Hi Matt,
thank you very much for everything around wordpress. You created more for a lot people than I did and therefore you get a lot respect from my side, but don’t forget to enjoy your life too – there is a lot to explore!!!
Sebastian
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TheFrosty | January 13th, 2009 @ 4:01 pm |
Hey Matt,
Had a awesome time in Vegas, boy do we party hard! Hope your hang over finally cleared, I know my drive home today was rough.
Sure you got the RSS feed from flikr, if not check out the photos I uploaded.
-Austin
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Jeana | January 13th, 2009 @ 6:55 pm |
BTW I will upload the pictures from your birthday night out in vegas tomorrow on flicker!
It was really great talking with and sharing your 25th birthday with you!
See you soon,
Jeana
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Duane Storey | January 14th, 2009 @ 12:02 am |
Happy belated birthday! Good look with the resolutions.
Putri | January 14th, 2009 @ 5:28 am |
Hi Matt..!!
*wait…i’m from Indonesia..for the information* so BIG.
It’s first time for to visit here
Nice to know that the founder of Wordpress is so young..
If you see WP in Indonesia you will know how the impact is
Blog become more that a blog..it’s a rope for b
Aw Guo | January 14th, 2009 @ 6:24 am |
Oh, Happy birthday… sorry I’m too late ;(
Franco | January 14th, 2009 @ 9:07 am |
Feliz cumple años! Y gracias por ahcer Wordpress.
Saludos…
Hannes | January 14th, 2009 @ 9:44 am |
Happy belated birthday.
Making it easier to do an amazing photoblog with WP sounds great! Can’t wait… I look forward to seeing what you have in store for future versions of WP.
Kayla | January 14th, 2009 @ 5:20 pm |
Happy birthday! I don’t feel as though I’m going to reach 25, but I suppose it will come someday. 5 1/2 more years…
Those are some pretty high, but reasonable goals. I need to make a habit myself of personal goals. Good luck with all of them.
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Massimo (aka maxp76) | January 15th, 2009 @ 7:28 am |
Happy birthday, Matt!!
!
I’ve read you’ll be in Italy in may ‘09, so it’s time to learn Italian
Bye,
Massimo
Anna | January 15th, 2009 @ 10:21 am |
Happy birthday.
Its such a huge success that you have gotten in you age!
I hoooope that I can do the same…
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vicmx | January 15th, 2009 @ 9:22 pm |
Matt Happy birthday!
Thank you for creating WordPress
Koen | January 15th, 2009 @ 10:59 pm |
Happy birthday, Matt. A little bit late
. See you in Jakarta then.
laisya | January 16th, 2009 @ 7:07 am |
Happy Belated B-Day…
I watched you in an interview in TVOne (one of TV station in Indonesia).
Hope you’ll enjoy your visit to Indonesia
nadia | January 16th, 2009 @ 7:56 am |
very happy birthday matt…just now i wachting you on tvone,indonesian tv,,very glad to see u ..so always good luck
Nick Nelson | January 16th, 2009 @ 8:39 am |
Who would use the fake mis-porportioned Wordpress logo? ugh…people!
http://s.ma.tt/files/2009/01/wordpress-logo.png
sunflower | January 16th, 2009 @ 9:11 am |
Dear Matt,
I watched you on Apa Kabar Indonesia. Cool! Welcome to Indonesia..
By the way, I want to congratulate you a Happy Birthday,,, Your resolutions list is great. Hope it all comes true,,,
I also want to give you some ideas to enrich your resolutions. Here they are: first, express “I love you, Mom” in a very different way than usual;
second, since I love family and have a really big family (more than 50 cousins), I always want to make a family tree to find connections in our family. What a surprise to find that I have family connections with someone or some families that I never know before!
So, perhaps, you can try to trace all of connections in your family tree and see how many connections you have and how good you know them.
Moreover, by knowing more people connected to your family, you can just start to see if there are any of them who needs your help. Sometimes, we are not aware if someone in our family needs help. So, you can give a hand for them as well as for other fellow that don’t even have any bonding relationship with you…
That’s all my idea. Hope it is useful
Oh, can i add once more? Since you’ll spend some days in Indonesia, so why don’t you take a look at the beauty of our nation
? You can visit Bali, Lombok or Jogjakarta. Try our uniquely different taste of culinary, enjoy our best natural views, and share the warmth of Indonesian smile and hospitality,,, you won’t regret it! 
Finally, all the best for you, Matt!
Good Luck!
lookj | January 16th, 2009 @ 9:36 am |
Welcome to Indonesia Matt, youre a young man with creative idea.
Mike Null | January 16th, 2009 @ 9:12 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt! I like your resolutions. Best of luck..
William | January 16th, 2009 @ 10:54 pm |
Hi Matt…!!!
I saw u on tvone last night in Indonesia and i’m very admire u…
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Keith | January 17th, 2009 @ 8:58 pm |
You have such an exciting future ahead! I was born in the middle of the fourth decade in the last century. I wish I could see all the progress we will make this century!
Happy Birthday!
Bill Babcock | January 18th, 2009 @ 8:33 am |
Congratulations! I just turned 62 on Jan 5. If I have anything to share with you from the extra 37 years I’ve run through so quickly it’s have fun every day, and make every one count. Even the saddest days can contain a laugh–and they should.
Great list. Focused on doing good things for yourself and people around you. Not only have you done amazing things in such a short life, you’re obviously a good guy too.
One suggestion–give stand up paddle surfing a try, even just on flat water it’s such a remarkable sport. I’m having so much fun with it that it seems criminal not to share the stoke.
All the best,
Phil v. Sassen | January 18th, 2009 @ 9:27 am |
Can’t wait to see the photoblog within Wordpress!
Will there be a sneak preview in Jena (Wordcamp Germany)?
Cheers from Berlin – Germany, Phil
Matt | January 21st, 2009 @ 1:15 am |
Maybe, depends on how far we get before then.
Eviwidi | January 21st, 2009 @ 5:38 pm |
Wow..photoblog within Wordpress? I can’t wait to know and use it!
When that you will announce Matt?
Cheerz From Jakarta-Indonesia
Rhakateza | January 18th, 2009 @ 11:05 am |
Happy Birthday Matt.
It Nice to see you visit Indonesia again
detnot | January 18th, 2009 @ 7:56 pm |
Met ulang tahun matt.
thanks udah bolehin ane numpang gratisan ngeblog di wordpress sampeyan
Rivermaya | January 18th, 2009 @ 10:43 pm |
happy belated B’day Matt
It’s so nice to met you in WordCamp Indonesia and got the only one gift from you
thanks, I’m truly grateful that day ..
ninja-neer | January 19th, 2009 @ 5:56 am |
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy it while you can; you’re not getting any younger
Now go and perfect your work/life ratio.
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Danny Schreiber | January 20th, 2009 @ 1:07 pm |
Happy Belated!
Had a good laugh at this line (as I’ve got a year to go) – “25 years young and finally able to rent a car without paying an age penalty.”
And I thought this was an awesome idea (I might steal it from you): “Print my favorite picture of another person every month and send it to that person in a picture frame.”
Keep it up.
Robert | January 21st, 2009 @ 7:36 am |
I’d say Matt you could spend time coaching older entrepreneurs and such too! Good job with it all… cheers.
Nathan Chancellor | January 24th, 2009 @ 2:58 pm |
Have a great one Matt
det | January 25th, 2009 @ 3:24 am |
hai matt, thank you very much
i use wordpress for my blog, free
gob bless you, matt!
Nathan Chancellor | January 25th, 2009 @ 6:34 pm |
Can’t wait for that redesign as well
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Marjie | January 31st, 2009 @ 5:29 pm |
Welcome to the club! I just joined it last month =)
Ezron Sinaga | February 1st, 2009 @ 7:26 am |
Happy birthday Matt…
we have the same birthday (but I was born in 1985)
heheh
baion | July 31st, 2009 @ 4:51 am |
Happy birthday sir. Man 10 000 pictures are a lot.
Brian Wong | December 27th, 2009 @ 9:11 pm |
Happy Birthday Matt. I cannot imagine the Internet without Wordpress. My partners Mike and Vishen met you at Necker Island and said you were an amazing guy. I look forward to more great ideas to change the world from your next 25 years.
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