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		<title>8000km</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8000km. As of next Friday, that&#8217;s how far I&#8217;ll have driven since August 22nd. I purchased a car in September in order to make a number of trips around the maritimes, and stuck reasonably well to my vow to continue commuting by bike. There are no good car rental options for long distance travelling, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/12/14/8000km/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s bring re-usable beer cases to North America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I drove my friend to the liquor store to pick up some beer. As he was removing the case from the cooler, an all too familiar situation occured: the bottom of the case broke apart and beer went cascading everywhere, an unpleasant situation, and an easily avoidable one. In Europe, beer is sold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/11/23/lets-bring-re-usable-beer-cases-to-north-america/</link>
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		<title>Grab things, make noise with them, record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing in the recording below resembles the structure expected in western music: precise timing and tuning, a coherent sound. It&#8217;s just me making noise with things close by. Including my phone receiving a kik message. Enjoy.]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/11/13/grab-things-make-noise-with-them-record/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for options for residential waste removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Residential waste removal in Canada currently comes in three flavours: one, two, or three stream. You either have the ability to compost and/or recycle, or you don&#8217;t. One is required to pay a flat fee for whatever one&#8217;s city offers. The concept of composting is also far from universal &#8211; the major centres, such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/11/08/its-time-for-options-for-residential-waste-removal/</link>
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		<title>Refinishing my bed frame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first moved in to a place of my &#8220;own&#8221; (rented with roommates), my parents were kind enough to purchase a mattress and box spring, figuring that getting a good quality mattress would pay dividends in terms of health and well-being. This mattress was purchased during a promotion that included a cheap metal frame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/11/06/refinishing-my-bed-frame/</link>
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		<title>A different way of visualizing SQL databases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked me this weekend to help him understand SQL databases for a course in which he&#8217;s enrolled. The general structure of a relational database seemed straightforward to him &#8211; creating a new row for each entry, linking one-to-one relationships directly, and creating a gerund for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships. The question was really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/10/26/a-different-way-of-visualizing-sql-databases/</link>
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		<title>The best chicken wings ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally I test my chops by not writing about engineering, student life, or politics, though one could argue that this post is about student life. Tonight I managed to make the most delicious chicken wings to have ever entered my mouth. Now, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s at least one person out there upset with my assertion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/09/30/the-best-chicken-wings-ever/</link>
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		<title>Playing with mom&#8217;s camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My next purchase (after a kettle for brewing) will be an SLR camera. I&#8217;m going to get a used rig, likely a Nikon due to a long-standing admiration of their products, and then build a lens collection on top of the initial buy. Since I can&#8217;t get that now, as a student (but maybe this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/08/13/playing-with-moms-camera/</link>
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		<title>Samuel&#8217;s: It&#8217;s definitely not Starbucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summerside finally has good coffee. Not great coffee, mind you, but very good coffee. Samuel&#8217;s has been open in the old Moving Designz space at Queen St and Water St (the Journal-Pioneer building) for about a week now. While the title of this post cheekily compares it to Starbucks, that&#8217;s just not fair to Seattle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/08/12/samuels-its-definitely-not-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all about relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I noticed a tweet by a public relations worker at a local creative firm, Rob Batherson, who was pleased with the way an employee at the Hilton Fashion District Hotel in New York had dealt with an issue he was having. Obviously we all prefer when a company solves our problems, but I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwedge.ca/2011/07/26/its-all-about-relationships/</link>
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