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 September, 2007

Standards Matter

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To most people computers are about accomplishing a task. Getting from A to B as simply as they can, so to speak. Almost no one reading this really cares much about what file format you are saving that word document in as long as the person you are sending it to can read it. Likewise, [...]

Things I’ve found helpful lately

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Current Mood: Better than yesterday – One step at a timeLife has been more than a little crazy for me for a while now. I’ve been struggling hard with some issues of trusting God, or much of anyone, since leaving Mercy Vineyard. But, in light of the fact that I feel a little better today, [...]

Picture of Reum Baby 2

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I figured out how to pull this picture off my phone this morning. I expect Dirk and Val will have many, many, more of these up eventually, but I thought you all might like to see one in the mean-time. For comparison, if you look here is a picture of when Daniel was born.

Dirk called me late last night to let me know that they were going to the hospital. This morning Dirk called and said that Lila was born at about 8:15am. Everything when fine, baby and Mother are fine. Dirk even got a little sleep last night. So, there you have it, consider yourself informed until [...]

A good collection of software

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This is a CD filled with some high quality free software. http://softwarefor.org/ I can speak for the windows one in saying I use almost half of those programs on a daily basis, and have about 2/3 of them installed on all of my windows machines, and most of the cross-platform ones I have installed on [...]

A Trip to Sunny Canada

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Current Mood: Relaxed and HopefulI realized I haven’t updated since I got back from my fishing trip in Canada, and thought you might all like an update. On August 25th I picked up Craig, a friend of my Dad’s son-in-law, from the airport. An hour or so later my Dad and Lyle (the father-in-law of [...]