Sounds like the best plan, definitely. One thing you should try is WSGI after you're done with the blog. WSGI is a Python-level specification for how to intero

Sounds like the best plan, definitely. One thing you should try is WSGI after you're done with the blog. WSGI is a Python-level specification for how to interoperate with a Web server. It's a layer above FastCGI (if you know what that is) and takes care of all the OS-level things such as network programming (but that is very good to know about). One thing you'd really want to learn right now is HTTP. It is essential to Web development or design.