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The ol’ update post

Ms. Vissers (now Mrs. Vissers-Bowes) and I got married on May 20th, 2006. We flew back to Halifax for
the ceremony; it was a beautiful day. I love her, and it was definitely the best
day of my life.

This week we expanded our family.
Julius
is our new baby boy. So far Spook has been a little scared of [...]

The Theatre Serves Beer

Green Thumb: Cherie and I planted assorted seeds outside next to our porch today. They should look better than dirt and trash when they are grown in.

Red Hat: Sent a patch to the yum devel list the other day. The patch basically did a bunch of stuff that had already been discussed on the yum [...]

Two dollar T-shirt

Cook-Out is an eatery here in NC. I don’t know what the food is like, but the clothing is awesome!

Keane is Krazy

Got an email to my Comp Sci account from a Keane recruiter
today. It was very generic; my name wasn’t in the email, and it said they were
hiring for basically every position under the sun, and my skills matched those.
I sent a reply saying that I was happily employed and no longer living in the
area, [...]

Possibly a Bad Generator Definition?

As I obliquely
alluded to
the other day, big things are happening. I’m resigning from my
current
job
as a software developer. Ms. Vissers and I are packing
up and leaving the province. The country, in fact. We’re moving to
North Carolina.

I got a job at
Red Hat.

I’ll be working as a software engineer on
Red Hat Network.
The product sounds interesting, and the technologies [...]

Public Service Announcement

Fedora Core is the best Linux distribution for home use. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the best Linux distribution for office use. That is all.

Mersey River Chalets

Mersey River Chalets Photos

For herk, and anyone else who
may be interested, here are some photos of
Mersey River Chalets.

Is there something wrong with my Timex?

…because all of my recent spam is about quality time piece replicas (no one will know the difference!)

ipods

I am not impressed by the
ipod nano.

What gets me excited is the ipod yotta, which takes 12 stout men to work the
clickwheel, and can hold enough music to last you till the heat-death of the
universe.

I Wish…

That Microsoft Word had Emacs keybindings.