I’ve been messing around with Ruby on Rails on my webhost (Dreamhost, which is sweet), and I have to say it is excellent. It was like someone said to me “Hey, you know most of the stuff you really hate about coding, well, I’m going to just do all that for you and let you [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in January, 2006
Some of you may have heard that a friend of mine from college committed suicide earlier this month. This wasn’t a guy I was particularly close to, but we were friends, and I’m very sad about this, and I’m trying to think up what the best way to offer my condolences to his family is. [...]
Sometimes I read through my old blog posts, especially around the beginning of the year because I like to recap the last year in my head. Today, I found myself reading them and wondering “What’s the point?” Not the point of blogging, I fully understand that it is nothing more than a cathartic expression of [...]
I’m writing a batchfile, and I can’t seem to get it to do exactly what I want. I’m taking a directory of files, and running all the .wav files through LAME and spitting out mp3′s with the correct encoding settings. I’m only writing the batch file because stupid winLame stopped giving me options to control [...]
http://www.christianitytoday.com/singles/newsletter/mind60111.html I read this article and enjoyed it’s breakdown of christian dating when it said: A typical story I hear over and over goes like this: Boy meets girl. They hang out, and boy behaves in the typical “courting” style for a couple months. They grow close. After a time, one asks for a vocal [...]
Here are some things I’ve been reading a little about here and there, and I thought maybe some of you would like to see them. ( Not Technical Nerd Stuff ) ( Tech Nerd stuff ) That is all for now…just thought some of that was worth sharing.
MLK Day is here, and I rarely notice it come and go. But for some reason I’ve been more compelled to study a little of what the man said this year. I’ve found myself going over the letter he wrote in Birmingham prison mostly, and I find his passion so compelling, that I wonder how [...]
Yes, With the annoucement of the MacBook Pro I am contimplating turning over to the dark side of the PC Universe. I’m mean, it is just so sexy, and I can dual-boot windows or OS X or any flavor of X86 linux I want. On a more serious note, I just want to run down [...]
I think God has spoken to me about some things relating to my passions outside of church as well as in. And I want to say some of them out-loud, so I 1) don’t forget them, or forget that I said them 2) try to hide away from the tasks needed to start things going [...]
I hate when I feel bad and find myself lacking in words to describe the bad. Weird Crappy Cynical Depressed even? I don’t know…whatever it is, it generally bothers me a lot when I feel like this that I can’t express how I feel or why I feel it. In other sort-of related news, I’ve [...]
Aaron gave me two old laptop LCD screens while I was home, one was an extra that someone shipped him and wouldn’t take back (he tried to give it back, but they guy didn’t want to waste the time or shipping), the other is the one I was replacing with the new one he bought. [...]
Dirk, Val, Seth, and Rob all came up to visit last weekend. that is , , , and . was a loser and bailed without calling us about it….you are so in the Braincell doghouse Dink. They arrived at roughly the same time on Friday. We had lots of fun going to the Town Hall [...]
