DA BEARS!!!!! # Had a good morning, spoke about breaking free at Hope Community Church, went to my church for worship, and then greek for lunch. # I have 5 minutes to talk about human trafficking, Breaking Free, & how porn addiction relates 2 prostitution. That's right, 5 whole minutes. # Did a fun outreach [...]
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My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
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Universal/NBC has the most lame-ass Bluray menus. Every one is identical, and they are slow and java-ish. #FAIL # Samba4 is looking more and more awesome – http://bit.ly/qFBro # Gajim supports PubSub discovery and subscription. That is making my testing on my XMPP<->wordpress plugin. # There is standing snow on the ground and it isn't [...]
My gmail which is set up for exchange sync seems broken since late last week. Not getting my email now for some reason, pushed or otherwise. # Da Bears! I know it is only the lions, but it still feels good. # I think no one decided to play defense in this game. Rediculous for [...]
Always astounded by the difference between my rainbow on lake and the one in the Quarry. Both in clientele and items available. # Bill the greyhound is our houseguest this weekend. Way more mellow than our little puppy, but when he decides to run… Wow! # The Elipse IDE is making my drupal tinkering much [...]
RT @cwodtke : Aaaargh, mateys, don't be forgetting to talk like a pirate today, or ye be walking the plank! # http://geeksandgod.com/episode125 Forgot the link where they talk about this. Drupal 7 might make this a real winner if we could find the $. # For ~$50K we could create a drop-in website solution for [...]
In Germany, getting ready to hit the sack. Plane trip wasn't too painful, and the new shoes performed admirably. Miss my wife already tho. # Pretty happy w/ my new shoes walking to the light rail and around the airport. First brown pair in a few years. # I forgot that the light rail is [...]
Loving Chicago today. Picked up cheap meat for BBQ, ate lunch @ Portillos, & now hanging out waiting for a televised Illini game. # Found out yesterday I'm being sent to Germany over the Bears season opener against the Packers. Pretty annoyed about the trip in general. # 4:30AM service call from Germany, just leaving [...]
Tomorrow is Dave's day at Famous Daves. Free entree for anyone named Dave all day long. # Buying new jeans cuz I need a size smaller. Feels good to be going in the 'down' direction for the first time in several years. # Deinitely like the new facebook app. Notes, events, multi-pic uploading, and album [...]
I'm starting to think that for the emerging church quoting or comparing things to Dobson is like invoking the Nazis to win an argument. # Wondering why there are no XMPP clients that support the subscription part of the XEP-0060 specification even though they support discovery. # I want the facebook 3.0 iPhone app to [...]
I'm starting to think that for the emerging church quoting or comparing things to Dobson is like invoking the Nazis to win an argument. # Wondering why there are no XMPP clients that support the subscription part of the XEP-0060 specification even though they support discovery. # I want the facebook 3.0 iPhone app to [...]
The Surpising Upside of Death Panels or Why Old People should just Die Already By Ben Catlin In the midst of this hopping good time of a raging shouting match / debate I hear all these people getting up in arms about death panels. I just don’t get that. It seems like most people don’t [...]
RT @justinhorton The Generation M Manifesto http://bit.ly/LPkYj A shift in viewing the world and how biz can/should fit in. # Last belt loop comfortably notched on this belt. 2lbs from goal 2, and I'm wearing a shirt I haven't worn in years today. Feeling good 2day. # Haven't ran in 3 wks, got back to [...]
People have asked throughout my weight loss process what I’ve been doing, and I give some tips on things that have been helpful to them, but I haven’t aggregated links and tips into one place yet. So I thought, being almost 5lbs past half way (that is negative 58lbs since Jan 1, 2009) on my [...]
