<div dir="ltr">Hey everyone I just wanted to introduce myself - I hope this is the appropriate place to do it.<br>My name is Ben Demott, I'm 23 yrs of age.<br>I am an Engineer / Developer and passionate contributor to the *nix scene.<br>
I've lived in Grand Rapids for awhile now ... and just thought I would try and expand my horizons and meet some cool people.<br>My current distro of choice is Fedora 9.<br>
In the past I have used Ubuntu and Slackware.<br><br>If anyone ever needs web application help or a website - I am usually a pretty good person to talk to.<br><br>Some humor for the community: (full page ad, have to click skip at the top - displays correctly in Firefox 3)<br>
<a href="http://www.garyshood.com/root/">http://www.garyshood.com/root/</a><br><br>Twitter:<br>A good micro-news site with a small community and good signal to noise ratio is Y-Combinators 'Hacker News' --><br>
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/">http://news.ycombinator.com/</a><br>Not a replacement for twitter - but you can find a lot of cool people to follow through there.<br><br>Glad to meet everyone, and sorry if I have spammed your mailing list or offended you in any way :)<br>
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