Weddings and Anniversaries

Darren has blogged the news, Grant and Emma got married today. Congratulations to you both! Definitely a great couple. I’m sorry that I could make the wedding, but Nicola and I were celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary.

Five years ago Nicola and I were exchanging our wedding vows in Rye down on the Mornington Peninsula. We had actually met years earlier online in an IRC chat room. I was waiting for another friend to get online and Nicola logged in using the same alias. What followed was a somewhat confusing discussion.

I didn’t realise until our second chat session that I wasn’t talking to the person that I thought I was. After a few more chats and telephone calls we had become good friends and we decided that it was time to meet in person.

At the time I was living in Queensland and Nicola was in Melbourne so she caught a bus up and we met at Roma Street. Within a few weeks we were making plans for me to move down to Melbourne.

Our first place was a tiny two bedroom flat in Carnegie in the South Eastern suburbs. Eventually I popped the question and we got married.

The past five years has seen the birth of our beautiful daughter, who is now three and a half years old and of course we are now living here in Canberra.

Nicola - I know you are reading this, so if you don’t know already, the last five years have been wonderful and I am looking forward to to spending the next five with you.

My first blog post from a Windows Mobile 5.0 device.

I’ve been using my JasJar for about a week now fairly consistently (potentially why there haven’t been many blog posts). Anyway, I thought that it was about time that I took a stab at blogging directly from the device.

I recalled that Frank Arrigo was blogging from his K-JAM so I shot him an e-mail and asked him what program he was using. He told me that he was using “Diarist” by Kevin Daly who is based in New Zealand. The program was pretty staight forward to download and install (I’ve got it running against CF 2.0).

Because the editing surface is just a text box there is no way to hyperlink text, so I guess as I make a series of posts I’ll need to go back and touch them up to spread the GoogleJuice.