Ben's Journal

Larry King has an interview out with John McCain. Watching the clips and reading through the transcripts, I would have loved to have hear...

I love this article on CNN.com. They went around to ardent supports of McCain and Obama and got them to say something nice about the one t...

Tonight I surprised Shira and myself by getting tickets and attending the 2008 Gymnastics Superstars show. Shira's always been a huge f...

I'm really excited to be starting a brand new project that's dedicated to helping deaf students, and parents of deaf students impr...

They say there's never a power outage around when you need one. But the one that just happened (and ironically was fixed as I started t...

A client of mine had a request for all incoming e-mail to be both delivered to the recipients and copied to another e-mail of his choosing...

Rimuhosting has a nice HOW TO for setting up E-mail on their servers. It includes a quick 7 step overview, along with more details. This ...

These last few days I've done a whole bunch of WordPress work. And, for the most part, I'm really enjoying it. I've been reall...

I'd like to propose some new political terminology. It's not misspeaking and it's not gaffing : it's Politically Jumping T...

I've been trying to understand why one of my Linux servers keeps getting out of memory errors. While Googling around, I found this use...

This is just too much for me not to comment on. The US Intelligence community is concerned that terrorists may be using Twitter to plan at...

Today, I got to watch some football with my buddy baby Grace . And, as you can see, she was really enjoying herself. Actually, both Gra...

I mentioned that I thought McCain was on the right track with robocalling. Well, sort of. He should be thinking non-traditional-guerrilla ...

I was haphazardly browsing the shelves of my local library when I stumbled upon D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself by Ellen Lupton. The premise ...

I'm shopping for a gift for my mom - oy, I'm late, and should have done this last week. Luckily, she believes in the concept of a ...

This is closest we'll be coming to owning dogs. Now, say it with me..."Awwwwwwwwwww, how cute": Free live streaming by...

There's story in this issue of Wired which should catch the attention of anyone who either runs a website, or plans to. Here's a s...

This one is just plain whacky. All of a sudden, a Google Maps app I've been working on stops working. It would no longer allow me to a...

So, not every is pleased with McCain's new robo call campaign . Though, I think he's on the right track in many respects. Loo...

Today, we are winding down the holiday of Sukkot , and are officially done with waving the lulav and etrog . After 8 days, my lulav is pret...

While setting up a new Linux server (hmmm, this seems to be a weekly occurance), my first order of business was to install screen . That wa...

It was so kind of the McCain campaign to enlighten me on fairly critical detail of my every day life: I don't actually live in the stat...

It's Friday, lighten up with some humor from all sides. There's atually something wonderful about watching Obama and McCain rib eac...

A couple weeks ago, I struggled to make sense of Flex event oropagation . Looking back at it last night, it all came together for me in abo...

Oy, this Joe The Plumber stuff is getting really ugly . I'm amazed that this guy's reputation is being dragged through the mud fo...

For some time now, I've been a fan of prototype . I find it hard to write any sort of DOM manipulating JavaScript without first import...

You know what I could really go for? Another Jewish Holiday!! OK, I'm feeling a bit rushed because I haven't really recovered fro...

I'm in the middle of migrating from a Windows to Unix server , and I decide it's time to move the database HTML files over. Not a p...

I'm in the middle of migrating from a windows server to a Unix server, and needed to dump and restore a fairly large database. Using t...

Shira and I have started up a little tradition: on Saturday night, we've been seeking out new restaurants to try out. Our sources for r...

Not sure why I found this so funny, but I think it is really well done. Enjoy! Update: I've been thinking why I found this so funn...

This is a challenging time in the Simon household - what, with the fact that we won't be eating for the next 26 or so hours. So, when D...

If you're fasting tomorrow , then my wish for you is that your fast is both easy and meaningful. G'mar Chatimah Tovah! y'all...

PocketNow.com pointed me to: Google Search, 2001 . As Google Says: In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest avai...

Lately, my Windows laptop has been taking forever to boot up. To try to speed things up, I decided to cleanup what programs get started whe...

Oy, times are tough . But, that doesn't mean you should throw in the towel. Nope, as E-junkie is showing , this is just the time to be ...

And Now For A Public Service Announcement... Heads up: today is the last day to register to vote in Virginia . So, print out the form ,...

Mickeleh summarized this video best: Video: Israelis for Obama. A little Schmalzy, but 100% kosher A little shmalzy? I'd probably ...

Upgrading Wordpress is basically a simple 3 step process. I've done this a handful of times before, so I didn't expect tonight...

Oh, this gotcha hurt. Big time. Here's what happened... I'm installing phpShop for a customer and all is going well. I deployed...

Here's a topic I bet you haven't talked about with your financial planner: SafeGuard Guaranty is planning to offer Marriage Insura...

Sooner or later, almost all my customers have the same realization: their completely unique idea, isn't. Someone has invariably beaten ...

Here's Joe Biden and Sarah Palin answering the same question about Roe vs. Wade. I was impressed with Joe's answer, and have never...

[ Happy New Year y'all! Thanks to the power of Blogger's post schedule ability , I'm able to queue up this article before the ...

In a couple hours, Rosh Hashanah , the Jewish New year, will be upon us. Here's a couple items to get you in the mood, or if you're...

...instead of standing in "that" isle in CVS near the pharmacy, you're standing in the hair care area, trying to pick the best...

Oy, Palin stepped in it again last night , when she gave essentially the same answer Obama did to a question about Pakistan. This isn...

I seriously owe Dustin a beer. The man saved me hours of painful debugging with the Flex app I'm working on. He recommended I look int...

Mike was kind enough to send me a review copy of his soon-to-be-released book, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur . He made it quite clear...

My Dad. My Dad and I are pretty similar. I'm told we look alike. I know we have the same sense of humor, respect for the power of books...

I've been meaning to add an extra layer of backupness to one of my server's, by explicitly dumping the database every night. Here...

CNN has been publishing these handy little fact check articles on their political blog . They'll take an outrageous statement from on...

Here's a riddle: if a large tree branch falls next to your house, and you're too busy programming, does it make a sound? This photo ...