Ben's Journal

Here's a couple of snapshots I took on my run tonight. Of course, my battery pack died before I could really capture all the photos I ...

I could think of no better venue than to celebrate Shira's birthday than Atlantic City. In what appears to be a new trend, we really e...

Happy Birthday Babe (aka Shira, aka Ben's wife)! On this day, I'm so glad your parents had you, and that you could move into the ...

The "@" notation in PHP is both powerful and dangerous. It allows you to temporarily ignore the error from a command. It's...

I accidentally turned on error checking for E_WARNING in Wordpress and was greeted with the following message: PHP Warning: fsockopen(...

I read this article talking about the way the Obama team has been using their announcements to raise cash, and it got me thinking. And he...

Dear Metro, Yes, the view from this metro car, as we head over the Potomac is gorgeous. But, c'mon, you're killing me here! I have...

Here's a random collection of funny distractions for your Monday... Laugh in small bits by following 65 hilarious fake personalities...

12seconds.tv is just what it sounds like - a way to record 12 seconds of video. Think of it as the Twitter of YouTube . The first time I...

What a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner I had tonight! Between the food and company, it was a perfect night (OK, Shira wasn't there - so p...

Here's a Thanksgiving message from Grandpa and myself. This is the unrated and uncensored (read: unedited) version. A small Yiddish les...

One of the projects I've been considering is integrating MzScheme in with another GUI Toolkit besides MrEd. Briefly, I'm inter...

Sure enough, our trip to Rochester included snow flurries, and we were greeted by a thin blanket of snow. How perfect. It's good to be ...

Dave and I are heading home for Turkey Day. First stop: pickup food, next stop: Rochester. Since I've started this note, we've gott...

For years now, I've been using this same "trick" to take a Windows box that I'm locked out of and trivially reset the admi...

While looking around for Obama's latest press conference * on YouTube , I stumbled on CSPANJunkie.org . It's an interesting (and ...

I really enjoyed this article on lines . Specifically, on how different organizations deal with having to make people wait. Take one of Di...

Today I struggled with a customer's web server that kept spiking massive load averages. We're talking astronomical load averages, ...

Here are some photos from our last two days at Cape Cod . Thursday, we spent most of the day indoors, as I worked (ahh, the joy - and pai...

It's official - we've left Cape Cod and are heading back to Boston. We enjoyed our really short stay. Going off season meant missin...

Today Shira and I spent some relaxed time hanging out in Cape Cod. It's way off season, so yes, it's quite chilly here - but it...

These guinea pigs are temporary boarders in my sister's house. Ben has a horrible cat allergy, and we learned something new today -- he...

Shira and I headed to Boston today for a bit of R & R, as well as to visit her sister. Here are a few sites which impressed me today.....

Here's a whole bunch of photos from the Texas adventure Dave and I just had. Dave took a fair number of these photos - so the credi...

It's been great traveling with my brother this weekend. He's fun, generous and a good ying to my yang. Though, on a number of occa...

Tonight we celebrated Aaron and Kristina getting hitched. What a cute couple, what an awesome time, and what tasty food. Lots more photos ...

My Mom doesn't blog - yet. But, if she ever does, I'm going to guess that she would choose to make Twitter her first bloggin...

As usual - when David and I travel, things get rocky. We got to BWI super early! Our flight was late and we were going to miss our connectio...

A while back, I mentioned that I was getting more and more interested in doing some web development in PLT-Scheme . Well, my interest has...

Let's say you're dealing with existing website, and you have a page like contact.html . Now, let's say you would like to have t...

It's nothing short of amazing to me that 1 year ago today I started working full time for myself, and made Ideas2Executables my day j...

Years ago, I used to get my hair cut at the Hair Cuttery because it was close by and they were cheap. The experience wasn't anything s...

Since basically forever, a URL can have fragment at the end of it, and the browser jump to that location on the page. For example, suppo...

I think this movie sums it up well. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those who have served. Put most simply, Thank You.

When the Obama team launched change.gov I was impressed . I especially liked the agenda section of the site, which outlined in describe pro...

I was totally irresponsible tonight, and ditched my work to go out and see a movie. I ended up watching The Express , which is based on t...

One of my customers needed to convert a variety of .avi to Flash Video Format, .flv . The most effective tool I know to do this is Sorens...

Today, I bought a new pair of cheap ($24.00) headphones. I couldn't help but notice that all the Sony headphones, regardless of the typ...

Perhaps you're a bit bummed that your candidate didn't win the Whitehouse. Well, here's a fantastic article to remind you just...

We have friends who are selling Performance Car and Truck Parts. This, of course, is something I know nothing about - but I'm told the ...

I happen to stumble on this article which talks about using Google Docs to monitor a website. The specific example is a clever one - use ...

About 2 weeks ago, the LCD screen on my laptop stopped working. Then, mysteriously, it started up again. A couple days ago, it went out aga...

There's a lot I like about Change.gov , Obama's new transition website: The name is prefect The second topic listed on the home...

Thinking through my recent blog post, how to drive traffic to a new site it occurs to me that it's lacking in both depth and breadth...

There, I voted. I have officially reserved the right to complain for the next 4 years :-). 3pm was the ideal time to hit the polls - there ...

So, you're a Toilet Paper Entrepreneur who has a new website. You know you want to drive lots of traffic there, but how to do so with...