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We’re Getting ready to go camping tommorow. It’s actually going to be quite nice to be away from screens and beeps and flourescent lights and such. Looking forward to it…although I should have been asleep two hours ago. Shame on me. Anyway, here’s hoping it doesn’t rain the whole time.

When Rackspace, one of the largest web hosts around, goes down, everybody notices.  No seriously – everybody.

I tried a bing search just recently in Chrome. It rendered like this. Looks like MS couldn’t be bothered to test out their CSS in a standards-compliant browser – at least the one from their most hated rival.

I created a back up of all my old posts before switching servers, only to discover that the backup went bad when I went to import them all in my new WordPress installation.  Thankfully I was able to switch the nameservers back to my old host and log back in to that to recover my posts – hence them being here now.

Well, I’ve finally moved my hosting from Worldpath to this* web host and I’m trying to get Wordpress set up. I found a decent them (ProudBlack) but I’d like to create my own theme.  One more thing for the projects list!  I also seem to have stupidly failed when I backed up all my old blog posts, so I’m not sure if I can get those back…I may be able to figure something out though.

I also plan to be setting Alice up with her own blog soon.  For now – bed time.

I’ve finally gotten around to getting a Twitter and a Flickr account.  See: http://www.twitter.com/6feetoverandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jafraser/

It’s amazing how sin creates difficulties in software development.  I (and my coworkers) constantly have to deal with various cases in our code that would not exist apart from sin. For example, our database used to only support someone having two parents. Sadly in our world today that is not enough, so now someone can have four parents. In a few cases, even that has not been enough, but we’ve put our foot down and said that that is not a data issue, that is a personal issue and an extreme edge case that we will not cater to. We also run data integrity checks to make sure our data makes sense – for example “Mrs. John” wouldn’t make sense because “John” is a male name, and “Mrs.” is a female prefix. We also check to make sure someone doesn’t have more than one father or mother.  Sadly, we can’t run that particular check in Massachusetts.  (Admit it – even if you support gay marriage, when you read “more than one father”, you subconciously agreed that should not happen.)Now I’m dealing with another issue where I need to consider not pairing certain people together for certain events.  How much easier this programming would be without having to worry about whether Person A likes Person B.So, it can just be crazy to consider how sin affects even this. Of course, maybe there would be no such thing as “programming” if there were no sin…but I’m not so sure about that.

So, Mike eloquently pointed out to me that I’ve had a blog for nearly a decade.  That’s quite something.  Of course, over those 10 years, I’ve posted less than some people post in a month or two, which is also quite something, but in a negative way. Not only that, but after decided to finally post yesterday, I was unable to access my site, and today as I wrote this, Verizon (internet by Satan, Inc.) decided to disconnect me again.When last we met, I had posted about my immentent EoB (End of Bacherlorhood).  Our wedding was fantastic.  It went exactly like we hoped it would.  The only downside to the whole thing was that it was in 110% humidity, which makes wearing a tux a bit uncomfortable.  Nate was able to be a groomsman, which was awesome.  Mike was the best-best man-man one could hope for.  And of course, my bride was the most beautiful bride that ever has been. I mean that in the most objective way possible.Our honeymoon was great, too. We went on a cruise in the Carribean, hung out with hurricaine Ike a bit (which resulted in us missing one stop, but getting some awesome thunderstorms), and caught up on tons of sleep.We’ve settled nicely in to our apartment, which is in a great location, right near routes 95, 1, and 62.   We had a huge fiasco getting our second car, but that’s all settled now and we’re finally able to start going full force against the Evil Student Loan Demon.Alice is now working at Breuer with me as a project manager, which is great. We save lots on gas by driving together to work.  It’s been an interesting adjustment in some ways, because Alice used to get out of work a couple hours before me and was able to do wonderful things like getting groceries, which we now have to do at odd times because we usually work till 5:30-6:00 ish (sometimes til past 7:00, but that’s rare).   It’s definitely interesting for me to now be getting support tickets and programming projects assigned to me by my wife!Anyway, that’s all for now. I’m actually home sick and working from home today (which is great that I can do that when needed!).  Sorry Mike, no pictures this time.  Maybe soon though!

Currently, it is 10:15AM on Friday, September 5th.  In 25 hours – tomorrow at 11:00 or so – my wedding ceremony will commence.  These are my final hours as a bachelor.  It’s been a wild ride planning and getting ready for a wedding – not to mention getting ready for a marriage.  But Alice, my bride, is so wonderful, and I am so excited to spend my life with her.  I can’t imagine anyone else for me.

It’s exciting, and scary, and fun, and every possible emotion rolled in to one.   But primarily it is exciting, and I am very much looking forward to being married to my beautiful bride.

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Wow, this has been / will continue to be quite a year.

This year, 2008, I graduated with honors from Gordon College, was inducted in to the Phi Alpha Chi honors society, got engaged, will get married, will become officially moved out of my house in New Hampshire (although I haven’t really lived there in awhile, except over last Christmas break), was accepted into two PhD. graduate programs for mathematics, deferred for one of them, got a job as a software/database developer, and will eventually purchase my second car.

Not only that, but I have been out to Minnesota once already this year (where I proposed), am flying to Colorado tomorrow, will be taking a honeymoon somewhere in September, and then will be going back to Minnesota for a second wedding reception for all of Alice’s friends and family who could not make it out here.

I don’t think I’ve ever done so many things in any one year of my life before…or even any five years!

I’m so thankful for how blessed Alice and I have been this year – blessed by God and our families. Alice and I are even going to be working close to each other (just a town or two apart), which will make our living situation very manageable. And, since Mike is PhD’ing himself in Amherst, we’ll still be able to get together semi-regularly. And we’ll be living a whole 20ish minutes closer! w00t!