Benwired?

I’m fairly certain that the title of this post says it all. I’m getting married. A website with the relevant information can be found at http://stephanieandben.net.

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Like Tom Watson, I’m becoming more dissatisfied with the concept of the weblog as a communications portal because it does not do a good job of unifying the many different ways I have to express myself online. I’ve put a number of pictures on Flickr, twittered a few random comments, created a stand alone photo [...]

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It’s apparently very simple to use google docs to publish straight to a wordpress blog such as this one. In fact, I am doing so right now. Go give it a try.

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So you want to write a web application but you don’t know much about working with databases, css, xhtml, and all that other crazy stuff. I highly recommend that you explore Django. The prerequisites for learning how to use Django are access to a web server with Python and a database installed. I recommend using [...]

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I saw The Gold Compass this evening.
The long and short of it is that I enjoyed the movie. I’ve read the trilogy of books written by Philip Pullman and the movie very closely followed the book. The acting was particularly good for what I largely see as a special effects movie. Nicole Kidman does [...]

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It’s been just shy of a month since I last posted, and I’ve had a good time. I went to at least one party, visited Cedar Point, began learning VBScript (ugh…Microsoft), refined my Python and Perl, and settled into the duplex.
The walls in the living room, kitchen, and bathroom have been painted and they help [...]

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