For those of you who follow me on twitter you likely already know that I am about to move half way across the country to take a new job. A few weeks ago I accepted a job with Rackspace and will be moving from Boonsboro, MD, population 3,399, to San Antonio, TX, population 1,351,305. I’m leaving for Texas on December 28 and have an expected move in date of December 31. Considering the time of year and the incredibly fast paced relocation I will be considerably less involved with WordPress and freenode until things start to settle down.
If you are in need of something just be patient, I’ll try to get to everything by sometime in mid March. I have some exciting updates to a few WordPress plugins that I hope to be able to get out in a reasonable amount time, so keep an eye out.
About Matt
IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
In any case I am employed as a Senior Linux Systems Engineer at Rackspace in San Antonio, TX.
I spent the majority of my college years as an Astrophysics major specializing in black holes. When I got to my senior year and was studying 40 hours a week to stay on track I decided to bail and pursue an easier career.
I spend the majority of my time now contributing to WordPress, developing WordPress plugins, helping out in the WordPress IRC Channel, playing football (not American!), practicing Krav Maga, and last but not least, spending time with my Wife and Son.
SA is just a little bit bigger heh, but you will like it. Good eats too :P
So, basically, your job will be sitting on a 3 Gazillion MBits/sec pipe. I could do something with this :)
Nice! What will you be doing at Rackspace?
Incidentally, Rackspace hosts the two sites built on WP which you helped me put together. I don’t think I ever thanked you properly…but thank you!
alxndr on freenode
Welcome to San Antonio! And Happy New Year!
You will love it here once you get over the culture shock. This is not the midAtlantic. I moved from DC area 5 years ago.
Terrie