http://www.bencatlin.com Here is Where I Carry on about my Daily Life, and usually some stuff about Technology! Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:59:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://vineyardusa.org has reworked their website. So far I really like it. I wonder what CMS is under the hood here. First guess is drupal. # Happy 2009! Currently chillin' in Indy, getting ready to visit Cham-bana. Who is ready to party w/ Lauren and me? # Living it up w/ my friends ... http://www.bencatlin.com/2009/01/04/this-weeks-twitter-updates-2009-01-04 Originally I wrote this as a possible guest-submission to Dave Schmelzer's Blog, but silly-me, I had forgotten that a similar topic had been covered in a couple previous posts around September-October time-frame. So, in the future, Lauren may submit something as a guest-blog over there that extends upon this ... http://www.bencatlin.com/2009/01/01/does-stage-4-faith-have-a-hill-to-die-on Chillin at an urgent care clinic waiting to see if they can take care of Lauren's nasty cough. Only an hour left to wait to get seen. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/29/twitter-updates-2008-12-29 Setting up Dad's new MacBook, and getting files transfered over. Gonna try open office for a while and see how that works out for him. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/28/twitter-updates-2008-12-28 Lauren got me a bluray player, and family is giving me movies! Super-duper excited! # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/26/twitter-updates-2008-12-26 Just recieved The Dark Knight from my little brother. Super excited to put it on my iPhone. # Yay Christmas! # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/25/twitter-updates-2008-12-25 Loving the 'Noel-athon' at Jazz, Blues, and Soup resturant in St. Louis. Some guy is currently rocking the ukelyle - pure awesome. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/24/twitter-updates-2008-12-24 Now in O'Fallon IL, chillin' with Dad and Mom - unfortunately Lauren has come down with a cold and I left my bluetooth in Davenport. # Paine actually did it. He injured a fellow Bear with his stupid reckless head-down tackling. Now we get to play w/o Tillman for a while. ... http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/23/twitter-updates-2008-12-23 Chillin' in Davenport with Dirk and Val. Wondering why their desktop can't share files with my laptop. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/22/twitter-updates-2008-12-22 Not snowing in Mason City my ass. Stupid weather chanel. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/21/twitter-updates-2008-12-21 Looking forward to visiting friends and family starting this weekend. Hoping the weather is nicer than last year for the trip. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/12/18/twitter-updates-2008-12-18 http://thejuliegroup.blogspot.com/ http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-porn-popup-case-dodges-jail-loses-creds.html This type of thing makes me really mad. This woman suffered pretty horrible consequences of a hacker/virus, and no official can admit that. The worst part is the people brought in to testify as 'expert' witnesses. Maybe it is my tech-background chip on my shoulder, but these are the people that ... http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/11/25/injustice-in-prosecuting-tech-related-crimes Lauren and I have been trying to do better at recycling (unfortunately Minneapolis makes you sort it, so I forget a lot) and we have probably cut our actual trash in half or better in the last 6 months. Also, I've been doing a lot of work over the last year ... http://www.bencatlin.com/2008/10/26/being-green-is-about-more-than-being-green