Everything Ben

dapper FTW

Mar 31st

working on @jmccay’s computer until I get mine back from apple

Mar 31st

opensource is fun …. I put a project out on rubyforge this weekend and I already have an email...

Mar 31st

my ruby-flickr gem is live now … that is fastest rubyforge turnaround I have gotten to date...

Mar 30th

just finished up an 8 episode LOST marathon with Sara

Mar 30th

looks as though my MBP is busted … at least the power jack is

Mar 29th

just dropped my laptop AGAIN and now the power adapter barely fits and the light doesn’t come...

Mar 29th

having a meeting on the CommonThread porch … very nice day outside

Mar 28th

porch == deck :)

Mar 28th

tired of the rflickr gem and no one pointed me in a better direction so I guess I will write my own...

Mar 28th

looks like github is getting a facelift http://tinyurl.com/2qr8t3

Mar 28th

ooVoo is pretty cool considering that it seems to work … and iChat … well it likes to...

Mar 27th

data conversion from .NET app to rails != fun

Mar 27th

I HATE TAXES

Mar 27th

is there anything better than rflickr for accessing flickr in ruby? … please someone help stop...

Mar 27th

I am so proud of @anthonycrumley for finally getting a gravatar

Mar 27th

brendan lim: Send Text Messages From Rails...

Mar 27th

brendan lim - discussions on software...

Mar 27th

markItUp! Universal Markup Editor

Mar 27th

:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT...

Mar 27th

“then we can be real granule” -@tigermatt

Mar 26th

getting sleepy … I think I have about 20 minutes of productivity left

Mar 26th

I just logged in to 43things.com [http://43things.com] for the first time in forever … I only...

Mar 26th

my 20 minutes are up … good night all

Mar 26th

did a little homesteading today with the userstamp plugin and less_captcha plugin

Mar 25th

Sara is cooking some fried chicken and herb & butter rice … we seasoned the chicken with a...

Mar 25th

Isaac has learned to blow big slobbery bubbles … looks like I will be covered in drool all the...

Mar 25th

CollegePlus! - Home

Mar 25th

also, pepper jelly FTW … mmmmm

Mar 25th

global warming … pffft … we are 20 degrees below normal right now

Mar 25th

open files in conflict … git grep “«««<” | cut -f1...

Mar 24th

I love github but sometimes the interface just sucks …. make it easier to search for...

Mar 24th

watching a documentary on a blind autistic savant … it is really good and heartbreaking at the...

Mar 24th

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I think this may be worse than getting rickroll’d … http://tinyurl.com/yfookx …...

Mar 23rd

Git Guide - SourceMage Wiki

Mar 23rd

dang safari 3.1 is fast

Mar 23rd

ScribeLabs » File Uploads via Merb inside a...

Mar 22nd

status messages that make me laugh …. http://tinyurl.com/34wo4c

Mar 22nd

git submodule is WAY more awesome than piston … what did we ever do before git ?

Mar 22nd

mmmmm …. coffee

Mar 22nd

I think @anthonycrumley’s head may explode

Mar 21st

just checked in my first merb app … guess I will give it a go

Mar 21st

finally had to unfollow @guykawasaki … got tired of the spam

Mar 21st

Moment of Truth is like a train wreck … I can’t look away

Mar 21st

sitting in the den watching Isaac play in his bouncy chair

Mar 20th

it has been a long night of philosophical/theological conversations and phone calls … my mind...

Mar 20th

gone to lunch at Chick-Fil-A

Mar 19th

anyone have a ping.fm beta code I could swindle ?

Mar 18th

being forced inside off the deck b/c of @anthonycrumley’s thinning blood

Mar 18th

MacBook Air stumps TSA … guy misses flight http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/14047...

Mar 18th

iClarified - AppleTV - Install SSH with a...

Mar 17th

successfully running ssh on my apple tv … now time to go install all my codecs and plugins

Mar 17th

take 2 of trying to hack my apple tv … created a new patchstick

Mar 17th

watching season 1 of Lost with Sara

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Mar 15th

thanks to @jayshepherd I am now hooked on the NASA channel

Mar 15th

editing a 311 MB text file is slow … even in vi

Mar 15th

just watched “Set It Off” … amazing what you will watch when you are too lazy to...

Mar 15th

reeses peanut butter eggs … ftw

Mar 13th

the nasa channel is great to program to … there is just enough going on to be interesting but...

Mar 13th

meeting with @MaMoore going over some model design discussions

Mar 12th

Ruby Reports

Mar 12th

so gcal syncs with blackberries & outlook … what about apple iCal (without spanning sync)

Mar 12th

the more I use git the more I love it … it’s worth making @jmccay learn how to use a new...

Mar 12th

just witness a little too much family bonding

Mar 11th

Working with the Spreadsheet-Excel gem

Mar 10th

sad to admit it but I am getting sucked into John & Kate plus eight

Mar 10th

gross … a kid on TLC is drinking coffee mate french vanilla creamer from the carton …...

Mar 10th

wishing we had fun nicknames in our house like @mojodenbow

Mar 10th

just found a script that is installed with haml … html2haml … does just what it says

Mar 10th

week_view_helper [ruby] [rails] [helper]...

Mar 9th

iClarified - AppleTV - Install SSH with a...

Mar 9th

the directv commercial made me dig up the original clip …...

Mar 9th

rubyforge finally approved project … http://rubyforge.org/projects/xml-magic/ … now...

Mar 7th

Installing GIT on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard | Tim...

Mar 7th

late nights are fun

Mar 7th

nicer interface on the imports

Mar 7th

ReinH — New jQuery AutoComplete Plugin

Mar 7th

finally pushed xml-magic out as a gem … until rubyforge approves the project it is at github...

Mar 6th

Creating a RubyGem Package |...

Mar 6th

I love the fact that skitch really keeps my flickr clear of random screenshots

Mar 5th

to answer your question 171 degrees is warm in your lap …...

Mar 5th

set -o vi … using vi commands at the command prompt FTW

Mar 5th

Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap

Mar 5th

http://treetop.rubyforge.org/

Mar 5th

FavIcon from Pics -- how to create a...

Mar 5th

Updating metadata for 997 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org [http://gems.rubyforge.org] …...

Mar 5th

taxes suck … I hope I saved enough from 2007 to pay them all … if not come visit me in...

Mar 5th

you gotta love an Arkansas education … http://skitch.com/bwyrosdick/8g8g/dst...

Mar 4th

I think @jmccay hates me b/c I am switching out stuff over to git … cheap branching and...

Mar 4th

Is my manhood in question if I really like that Natasha Bedingfield song Love Like This?

Mar 4th

I feel a contest coming for @lessallan and @jmccay

Mar 4th

LOTR is a great movie to have in the background while programming … it is not too distracting...

Mar 3rd

why don’t sleeping babies like to be put down?

Mar 3rd

interesting plane just flew over my house … http://skitch.com/bwyrosdick/8ryt/aperture...

Mar 2nd

Sunday afternoon seems to be a slow time for tweets …. they are rolling in at a whopping 2 per...

Mar 2nd

welcome to twitter @billabel

Mar 2nd

Isaac had a 7 hour stretch of sleep last night w00t

Mar 1st

do people still use feedburner that much?

Mar 1st

feedburner link to CommonThread blog … http://feeds.commonthread.com/CommonThread...

Mar 1st

joining the #fntp

Mar 1st

my good friend @jmccay surprised me with a white chocolate mocha from starbucks … makes for...

Mar 1st