Ben's Journal

L'Shanah Tovah! Yummy challahs fresh from the oven, courtesy of my wife!

From the always interesting Ohr Semayach, Ask The Rabbi : Dear Rabbi, I understand that Rosh Hashana is the day of judgment, and Yom K...

My brother pointed me to this interview Arne Duncan . It's amazing on a number of levels: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world ...

A few days ago, one of my clients had quite the shock. She found that when customers searched for their site on Google and attempted to c...

Pardon me while I take a moment and kvell : my brother and his girlfriend each came in First Place in the 8k they ran last weekend . Becau...

Shira and I didn't quite know what to expect from the Champions Shootout - a tiny tennis tournament made up of 4 all-time-great player...

Shira and I spent the day traipsing around Philadelphia, and when I say traipsing I really mean it. All told, we did about 16.1 miles of sh...

I'm working on an app for a client that has a Windows based server component. The Windows server sits around and waits some items in a...

Last night, I hit my second DC United game with my buddy Greg. This time we sat on the opposite side of the rowdy section, so we remained...

I stumbled on this article by Jason Calacanis - a personality I don't know anything about (other than a quick read through his Wikipedi...

The latest edition of Wired (not yet on the web), has an intriguing little article on the mystery of UVB-76 . UVB-76 is apparently a trans...

I love stories like this : a guy takes a 440sq ft garage and turns it into a sweet little house. Here's the before picture: And...

I'm a programming geek, not hardware, OS, network administrator or security geek. So, I like my security tools simple. Just trusting th...

I snapped these photos on my Android G2 last week, and decided over the weekend that I liked them enough to share.

For this last trip to Boston , I used a Osprey Porter 46, instead of the usual rolling suitcase. The Osprey is one of those old school trav...

What a fantastic time we had visiting our nieces and nephew in Boston. The Twins are now 2 1/2 and Tzipora is a whopping 9 months. They ar...

A client of mine noticed an oddity about the HTML5/CSS template we were using for his site. When browsing with Chrome, pasting into t...

Not quite sure when I discovered The Show by Ze Frank, but I've been hooked since. It's bit hard to explain The Show: it's abo...

So, I tried my hand at setting up a Windows based EC2 server. It's almost too easy. EC2 makes getting the instance setup trivial, and W...

I've been pleased enough with Subversion + emacs integration that I really haven't yet felt the pull to investigate git and the l...

I picked up Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho on a whim as I was just about to walk out the library. Within a few pa...

Yesterday, our friend Allie and her 2 year old hit up The Flying Circus Airshow , out in Bealeton, VA. Bealeton is about an hour and 20 mi...