Ben's Journal

Tonight we had Tasty Bite for dinner and it was so good I thought it deserved mention on the blog. Tasty Bite is a family of Indian food th...

www.singersiddur.com Last night my Mother-in-Law showed me the above site, run by a close friend of hers, which allows you to create and pu...

They are hubby and wife --Ben

Shira and I made it in one piece to the site where Ari and Vera are getting married. Let the good times roll. --Ben

We are getting ready to head off to Ari and Vera's wedding. It's black tie optional, so I'm breaking out the o'l tux. Judg...

If Al Gore were President I've been a fan of Al Core for a while. So I really got a kick out of the Saturday Night Live skit found h...

The last few times I've done yard work I've really enjoyed listening to my mp3 player (the irony is too good to pass up - I'm l...

Paper Toys It's always interesting to watch kids come over to our house and entertain themselves. This is because we don't hav...

I've been collecting resumes for a position on my team at Innovectra. So far, it's been an educational experience. By far, the t...

It's officially summer in the Simon household. This morning I changed the filters in our HVAC systems so we could...turn on the AC. Ye...

Adverblog: Stella Artois: can you pull the perfect pint? This is an Advergame that tests your ability to pull a pint (aka fill a glass ...

Going through some old papers, we found an email from me to Shira from 1996 containing an ASCII art teddy bear. That was me trying to be c...

Us outside a rest stop in Pennsylvania. The view was terrific. Though we only had a few minutes to enjoy it. Many hours of driving ahead ...

Shmuel is getting another does of Simon'ness while we entertain ourselves during Elana's shower. So far, he's holding up. --Ben

Here's my big catch (no, not Shira). Thankfully, we don't depend on my fishing skills to put food on the table. It was lots of fun ...

Since 5am this morning, I've been out fishing with my dad and his fishing buddy. So far, my dad caught 2 perch and a cluster of zebra m...

Tomorrow is Elana's wedding shower. So, the family activity tonight is getting things set up. Is it odd that my parents can easily hos...

We stopped by the Specialty Bakers - "The Ladyfinger Specialists Since 1901" We picked up a few essentials: 3 pies (apple, peach,...

I missed picking up a library book for Shira by 1 minute. The library was all locked up. Argh. If I had my Mom's chutzpah I probably ...

collision detection: Man delivers marriage proposal as 113-page publish-on-demand book OK, this guy gets credit for going the extra mile t...

How to Erase Old Marks off a Dry Erase Board - WikiHow Being such a whiteboard fan - there's nothing more painful than seeing someone ...

The folks at LShift have put together a lightweight web framework they call Icing . They intrduce it as it as follows: As part of a rec...

BROADCAST YOUR PODCAST This is a fun site that explains how to build a simple FM transmitter. What's nice about it is that the direct...

JavaScript Shell I just found an interactive JavaScript shell, which includes such cool features as tab completion and history. If this ...

Just stopping to smell the roses. --Ben

I've now had my Garmin eTrex for a few weeks. And while I've yet to use it for anything too serious, I've started forming some...

I've now had my Garmin eTrex for a few weeks. And while I've yet to use it for anything too serious, I've started forming some...

A while back I mentioned that I was excited to see Gliffy take shape. Gliffy is a graphical diagramming tool that works inside your web b...

Check out the claim on this bottle of Off: "repells misquitos that may be carrying WEST NILE VIRUS" I see. How compelling. I can ...

Shira standing in field ready position. Some police training habits die hard. --Ben

Elana has a Master's Degree! I'm officially the slacker in the family (both Blumenthal and Simons included), as everyone has an adv...

--Photo Removed By Censor-- 1. Get every moment of it on video 2. Play tetris on your cell phone 3. Listen to an ipod with your neighboo...

It's graduation time! We are in the main Brandeis gym waiting for the festivities to start. The main speaker: His Royal Highness Princ...

Not only are we getting to hang out with Elana and Shmuel this weekend, but we also got to see Aaron too. Aaron delivers babies for a livin...

The photo attached is the view from outside our hotel window. Pretty, isn't it? --Ben

Of course there was a huge accident shutting down the BW Parkway, causing us to almost miss our flight. Luckily it was the other directio...

Photoshop Web Template - Web Site Design Tutorial | PhotoshopSupport.com Something about this tutorial for creating a website caught my ey...

David Holt: Music - How To Play The Spoons I've been meaning to learn a musical instrument... Oh, the skills you can learn thanks to ...

Shira came across this very cool site today. It allows you to track the airport activity at some major airports, such as Boston, in this p...

Check out Tonya's hack to keep her heater from spewing out gobs of cold air. Why is it that our offices only have two settings - too ho...

ONJava.com -- Subverting Java Access Protection for Unit Testing Suppose you are planning to design a highly structured programming langu...

Bluish Coder: Google Web Toolkit Chris mentions that google has released the Google Web Toolkit . The toolkit appears to an API for crea...

Tonight I had a chance to play with prototype , as documented here . I'm pretty much blown away at what an impressive library it is. ...

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator This site provides a cool utility to play around with color schemes. I've always been b...

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Shhhh, don't tell anyone. Today Shira and I came home, curled up on the couch amd watched TV. As Brad Paisley says, "it was time...

Add Bookmark Javascript Example By Eddie Traversa The JavaScript needed to add a bookmark in IE is pretty trivial. However, I had yet to s...

We got to enjoy Mother's day with an authentic Mom, with 4 great boys to prove it. Happy Mother's day Danielle. To my mom: Happy Mo...

I think this CNN poll says it all. Though I doubt you find the same results on the Fox News site.