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 February, 2010

One of my new local music heroes @heatherlynmusic http://www.heatherlynmusic.com/ check her out – awesome and maybe coming to your town! # At the MN without poverty event at Luther seminary. Loving the artists and the cause. # Battle of the odors, the rotten fish smell we can't get out of the fridge vs. leftover curry. [...]

Still on the phone w/ service guys in Germany – it is around midnight there now. This has been an insane walk-thru with these guys. # I'm often impressed by how good the video quality is over low bandwith for google's video chat. XMPP+Jingle-Video FTW! # I hate when you learn so much about an [...]

It is not saying anything new to point out that the iPhone changed the way we thought about and interacted with smart-phones. In the years following the Android phones brought us a vision of what a cloud-centric phone OS on many vendors hardware could provide if it was well supported. And the Palm webOS phones [...]

This is a really fun defense of the paper letter snail-mailed to people http://is.gd/8kjzK # Ever think back about what u have done or said & say to urself 'that was really immature.' Yeah, I'm in a church-planting lecture right now. # Why can't media players and phones have a standard for syncing media – [...]

Opened a bottle of 2006 Avery's Czar Imperial Stout only to find it had bottle-shock and had a bite and a nasty finish. # Not sure yet how I feel about the new offensive and defensive coordinator decisions for da bears. Both x-head-coaches… # My dog has decided tonight that she is terribly afraid of [...]