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Thanks to those who voted for Sue & Mike :) Here’s the official announcement

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Suzanne, a good friend of mine, is getting married in the summer of 2009. The wedding photographers they want for their wedding are asking $3,500 for the shoot, but the photographers are also running a contest to pick a lucky couple who’ll they’ll shoot for free. So Suzanne and her fiancé Mike applied for the contest and was chosen as one of the three finalists.

Here’s where they could use your help. The couple with the most votes will win the package. So, before 8pm Forum Time on April 18th, 2008, please send an email to jennifer@leatherwoodphotography.com with the subject “Suzanne and Michael” (or click on this link and click on send) to vote for them :) It’s one vote per email address.

For more info about their contest entry, skip to the third entry here.

Thanks in advance!

And now we return your regularly scheduled programming/coding/gaming/discussing.

Yesterday we added news commenting capabilities to the main site, as well as tweaked the style there to look a little more modern. Check it out :)

Bad news … we’ve had to make an adjustment to the max # of topics and replies per page allowed in the user preferences. It has been lowered to 50 to alleviate stress on the servers. We’ll continue to keep an eye on things and adjust that number as necessary.

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