Tumblr CSS positioning - css

I'm making a two column Tumblr theme and I need to fix this weird CSS positioning issue I'm having. If you look at the picture provided you can see that there's a gap in between two pictures in the first column. This happens when a picture is smaller than the max-width I guess the rest of the width it just filled with blank space. How can I fix it?
Code:
http://pastebin.com/eY4EsQKH
Picture:
http://i.imgur.com/z8k22cQ.png
jsFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/kQVNd

Try this:
1. Divide the content in two columns like this:
<div class="column">
<!-- articles -->
</div>
<div class="column">
<!-- articles -->
</div>
2. Add this CSS:
.column {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
jsFiddle demo.

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I'd also like the wrapper to center horizontally.
I was trying:
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It works as intended except that the wrapper doesn't center, which I was trying to achieve with line 1 of css.
Any idea how I can achieve this?
EDIT:
The HTML code:
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<div class="column one">
</div>
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</div>
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http://jsfiddle.net/kbj8dd0e/6/
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http://jsfiddle.net/kbj8dd0e/5/
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That you want a pretty way of doing it
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<li>3</li>
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</div>
</div>
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Approach #1
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Approach #2
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The code you need for approach #2:
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</script>
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My english is not the very best so pls take a look at my example picture first:
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