A couple of updates to the site. Number one, I've updated the look and feel of the site. I think it's much cleaner and easier to read. Now if I only had things to read :)
And number two, I'm now the owner of benstruthers.com. Bstruthers.com isn't going anywhere. In fact, benstruthers.com will take you right to bstruthers.com. I just wanted to grab my name.
It's been one full year since I put this site online. Can't say too much has come from it... hopefully that'll change. Maybe. Don't get your hopes too high.
Lots of new things going on but also a lot of the same old. Life goes on at a steady beat and things are starting to return to normal. I still have a dead truck in my garage. Amanda's car is acting up. Desiree is still enthralled with shadows. Work goes well, for both of us. My sister found a place and is almost a month away from getting married! Crazy! And my best friend got married! A big congrats to him and his blissful bride!
What else... we saw the movie UP. The Transformers. The Terminator. The Proposal. The Ghost of Girlfriends Past. Star Trek. (Not in that order...) Easily the most movies I've seen in a theater in a loooong time. Finally watched the Departed... Netflix has shipped it to us 2x. 2x we've let it sit... I finally watched it with Ken over the past weekend.
I think that's about all. Haven't done any of those things that I said I would get to. Funny how life changes plans. Funny how fast time flies...
I've updated the site again... shocking, I know. Besides some cosmetic changes, I've finally implemented some site features and I've changed where I'm storing my photos online.
I've switched from using Flickr to using Picasa. I found that Picasa was a better fit for me. Flickr seems to have more options but Picasa was quicker for me to upload pictures (and that's all that really matters to me). Plus, the software was helpful in organizing the mess of photos I have stored on my desktop.
Can't complain about that.
I guess I wasn't quite ready to take this site off the back burner. I've been working on it little by little and have settled on a design I like. Hopefully additional changes won't take quite so long.
Welcome to the home of Ben Struthers on the web. I've just moved this site to a new host (WebFaction) and I'm ready (finally) to take it off the back burner.
I'm a web developer/software engineer living in Minnesota with my wonderful wife, Amanda and rambunctious lab, Desiree. I work primarily with .NET technologies during the day and play with Python/GAE at night.
This is my little niche on the web. It's a place for me to post things I find helpful and interesting, share things with friends and family, comment on different subjects, and contribute back to the developer community.
The site is powered by the Django web framework and was designed and developed by me. All HTML and CSS is valid and I've tried to make it accessible to all. Feel free to contact me directly at ben@bstruthers.com and let me know if I've missed something.