It's been quite a year here at Grey Matters. As everyone settles in for the holidays, and the year draws to a close, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the changes.

Courtesy of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, we can start by seeing how the site looked at the beginning of this year. It looks so different now, doesn't it?

It's also important to remember that at this time, the Grey Matters blog was the only part of Grey Matters. It was only during the past year that the store (opened February 9th), the Mental Gym (opened February 19th), the video section (opened May 11th) and the presentation section (opened June 4th) were added!

The search feature, while not new, certainly has been improved with help from Google.

Actually, Google has helped improve this site in several ways over the past year. If you haven't already done so, check out the Grey Matters Google Homepage Gadgets that were introduced back on June 29th.

The first post of the year concerned the addition of categories to Grey Matters. Thanks to Google's blogspot update, you may notice that these have now been replaced by "labels" at the bottom of each post. Instead of having category links that take you to another site, each of the labels are now clickable links that will bring up past posts with the same label! For example, clicking the fun label at the bottom of this post will bring up the past posts that are also labeled fun.

Next year is already looking to be a better one for this blog, as well. I can't say too much at this point, but rest assured that there is still plenty of steam in the Grey Matters engine!