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I got married at the weekend! Thanks to everyone who helped or who came along as a guest!

Ongoing Projects

Microcyte Content Management System
Microcyte is a PHP/javascript based website Content Management System. Its main feature is direct inline in-place editing of content.
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Snatch (Mac OS X)
Snatch is a website scraping tool which can be used to retrieve links, images and email addresses from a given webpage and linked pages.
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Distribution (Mac OS X)
Distributions is a mailing list management tool for Mac OS X. It features support for Multiple Classifications and some CRM functions.
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??? (Mac OS X)
This is a new project I am working on for OS X (leopard). more soon!
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Thanks all!
A quick thanks to everyone who helped with or attended my wedding as a guest at the weekend!
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A quick thanks to everyone!

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for making our day the best it could possibly have been! It wouldn't have been the same without all of you and we were very pleased to see everyone enjoying the band and other entertainment during the day!
 
We'll be sending out more specific and personal thank-yous after we get back from holiday but I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in the mean time and to let you all know that we were very touched and left the reception feeling very emotional!
 
If anyone has any experiences they want to share about the day then please feel free to use the comments below and link to any picture albums, etc.
 
Once again, many thanks to you all from the bottom of our hearts!
 
James and "The Missus"


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Congratulations again!

September 1, 2008, 1:56 am - Scoot

Well done to you and Hannah for tieing the knot - and welcome to the married couples club! Hope you have a great holiday and a fantastic future. We will have to meet up more, and we look forward to a big get-together some time in November, if you're up for it. All the best, buddy! Take care and pass my regards to "The Missus!" ;-)