Ben's Journal

As a make-a-website-mobile-friendly project was winding down, I decided to pop over to Google's Mobile Friendly Test Tool to ...

I was chatting with my Dad last night and the topic of calculators came up. My Dad, a Biology Professor for many years, had strong feelings...

I'm a big proponent of allowing everyone, including kids, to have an online presence. Blogging, Facebook, Twitter; give me a few minut...

I don't know much about law, but I know this: You're innocent until proven guilty . At least I've watched enough TV dramas to ...

This map elegantly explains why nobody around here gets Trump: And within those splotches of purple, Arlington is extra purple: ...

Arlingtonians are freaking out. There's talk of a gun store opening up in the community and people have gone downright apoplectic. Ov...

Yesterday was the perfect weather for a bike ride, and the Indian Head Rail Trail was the perfect location to make it happen. Because the ...

Our friends Lauren and Nick asked if we'd like to join them and their kids at Roller Skating Night at Thomas Jefferson Community Center...

We just took off from a very cloudy Chicago, O'Hare airport and burst through the clouds to blue sky and a carpet of perfect puffy clou...

From a run earlier this morning along Coyote Creek Trail . And a snapshot of the sun coming up at the same time. Now that's th...

This whole working while it's 70°F and sunny out is harder than it looks. Fortunately, I finished up with my meetings early enough th...

I'm working this week from San Jose, CA. The operative word there is 'working.' That means that this evening, while the sun wa...

Every once in a while a bit philosophy will resonate so strongly for so long, that I'll add it to my list of My Rules . And so it is wi...

Imagine if a team of writers were sitting around scheming on how to write a book optimized just for me. The conversation would probably go...

I'm jogging along last night when I ran by a statue I've been by plenty of times, but this time, something caught my eye: Spe...

What a weekend! We ticked off two more Florida attractions. This is normally the time when I mention that I'm 30,000 feet above the g...

John Glenn knows a thing or two about fear. He was the first American to orbit the planet and was venturing into a world that was fraught w...

A few aerial shots I captured on our trip this last weekend (pics and text coming soon, I promise). The first one is of DC and includes t...

Thanks to winter weather in DC, our weekend get-away ended with a 10 hour road trip instead of a 2 hour flight. But I really don't have...

You know, news involving an actual fox. Today, as I was finishing up my run, I was shocked to see a fox casually stroll across the street a...

When I say Occupy Wall Street you think, hand signals to allow a group to come to consensus , right? Yeah, me neither. But apparently, it...

About 5 weeks ago CNN highlighted a study on how we share misinformation. The study is found here and says exactly what you think it says...