Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen says that people want to know about the authors of their content. Who am I to argue with him?
My name is Christopher Gerhard Reuter. I was born on March 14, 1970 in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in the nearby suburb of Burlington. I went to the University of Waterloo and managed to get a Bachelor's degree in mathematics out of the experience.
For a while, I lived in Waterloo, Ontario working on development tools for embedded systems at Archelon. I now live in Stoughton, Massachusetts and write software that requires a 64-bit address space.
In my copious free time, I like to fart around with computers in non-work-related ways (e.g. writing open-source software) and by writing fiction. That's right--most of my life is spent staring at a computer screen.
Still, I've had a story published . I've also managed to mostly finish a novel. I'm currently putting off that one final polishing pass before I send it off to plague slushpile readers far and wide.
I'm now married to Debbie as of April 12, 2008. Long before I met her, I made this using a singles website. It was late at night and it seemed funny at the time.
I'm a follower of Jesus and attend Park Street Church .
And, since we're on the topic of religion, I run Linux on my computer, use XEmacs as my main text editor, read news with trn use perl to do most of my scripting (although I've also played around with Python a bit), do my GUI development with Tcl/Tk and do most of my personal software development using Squeak.
I'm a member of the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, which used to host this page before I got my nifty domain and some ISP hosting and who extended my membership to 2017 in exchange for my NeXTstation .
I still feel a vague urge to put up a picture of myself here, but it's not strong enough to actually make me do it.
