The Curious Engineer

Ben's Journal

2005–2006

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December 2006

  1. Best Buy Surprise
  2. Party Till You Drop
  3. Super Wife
  4. Lifehacker - Gone Mobile
  5. Unix Tool Of The Day: XMLStarlet
  6. TSA's Losing Battle
  7. Commutecast #1: Trying it out
  8. Hot Dog Cook-In
  9. Google Hack: Finding Gift Ideas
  10. MP3 Player Update
  11. MailChimp: E-mail Marketing
  12. Blogs, blogs and more blogs
  13. Disposable Phone Numbers
  14. Bank Of America: Surpassing Expectations
  15. Links For Greg
  16. A Glimpse of the Hirshhorn
  17. 12 Years
  18. When Harry Met Sally - The Thriller
  19. The 7th Day
  20. Cygwin + Logitech Quick Cam = Very Bad
  21. Nailed it
  22. ilities List
  23. All The French I Needed
  24. YouTube Advice
  25. PMA Tips - The Happiness Project
  26. Technology To Try: Windows PowerShell
  27. Happy Chanukah!
  28. Another Program As Story
  29. Jews In Rock - A List
  30. Tiny Visitor
  31. Funniest List Yet
  32. First Wikipedia Contribution
  33. USB Flash Drive Friendly Apps
  34. Chuck Norris Facts
  35. If Men Carried Purses
  36. Product Commodity Test
  37. XM Channel 108: Radio Hanukkah
  38. Chinese Food on Christmas
  39. The Power Of Legos
  40. Engrish: Almost English
  41. Programs As Stories
  42. Uncle Mark's Gift Guide
  43. Simplicity - Another View
  44. Cool Charity Ideas
  45. Gift Idea: Air Hogs Aero Ace
  46. Guy's Next Book Idea
  47. Blog Redesign Notes
  48. Januine Creations - Blogger as lightweight e-commerce platform
  49. Shoutbox: Comments meet Sign-In Book meets Chat
  50. Review: Max's Kosher Cafe
  51. Holiday Gala
  52. Handy Site: Online Stopwatch
  53. Guest Blogger Gareth: Customer Service Done Right and Wrong
  54. Definition: Workus
  55. Need A Corrupt File?
  56. Review: Thread Across The Ocean
  57. Firefox Addon To Try: Clipmarks
  58. 80's Games and Toys - How much do you remember?
  59. Unix Hack Of The Day: Hex to Decimal filenames
  60. Restaurant Review: Saran Vegetarian Indian Cuisine
  61. Top Ten Lists with a Twist
  62. 13 Uses For Vodka
  63. Technology and Activism
  64. Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds

November 2006

  1. Lessons From Sodom and Gomorrah
  2. BloggerSnap - Snap Me!
  3. Eight No Cost Ways to Market Your Business
  4. Comma: Education and Humor
  5. Mp3 Player Upgrade
  6. The Joy Of Txt
  7. Another Bad Consumer Experience
  8. Unveiling
  9. Photos from Switzerland
  10. Goodies Galore!
  11. Tradition
  12. Mmmm, Mmmmm Good
  13. More things to be thankful for
  14. Thankful
  15. Swiss Side Trip: Castle of Chillon
  16. Bonjour From Switzerland
  17. Boarding
  18. Packed
  19. Testing
  20. Satisfactory
  21. Unix Blog
  22. Sidekick: Hot Swapping The SD Card
  23. How I'm Found
  24. Review: America (The Book) A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction
  25. Good Riddance
  26. Debate In The Classroom
  27. A Glimpse Of The Right
  28. A New Shopping Low: CCI Camera City
  29. Adventures In Bargain Hunting
  30. Voting and Technology
  31. Michael J. Fox - Victim of the Democrats
  32. Mobile Browser Start Page
  33. Hilarious Video: Will It Blend?
  34. Patent Idea: Anti-Escape Key Device
  35. For the record
  36. Going Laptopless
  37. Lock Picking Guide
  38. Nope On A Rope
  39. Logo - Still The One
  40. Just Arlington: Search for local information in Arlington, VA
  41. Fixing Google With Google
  42. Doing My Civic Duty
  43. I Think I Could Vote For This Guy
  44. A Hike Down Memory Lane
  45. Best Buy Tips: Free Marketing Advice
  46. It's a Matter Of Trust
  47. Kid in a Candy Store
  48. Review: Finding Fish
  49. Jews and Hair Loss
  50. Windows XP Find: Remote Assistance
  51. Stock Comics
  52. News with a twist: Newsmericks

October 2006

  1. Pumpkin Carving
  2. Costumes and Such
  3. Mobile Computing - Things To Try Today
  4. Michael J. Fox, Stem Cell Research, and The High Ground
  5. A Tribute To Breakfast
  6. T-mobile/Danger Gift
  7. SMS Reminders
  8. The Whole Team
  9. A Love Story
  10. Something Fishy
  11. Home Grown Tech Support
  12. The Ben And Shira Trading Card
  13. A New Space
  14. Development Pumpkin
  15. Design Example: Resume Face Lift
  16. They look just like me
  17. Sidekick 3: Poor battery life, but there's hope
  18. House Debugging
  19. Back to the future: Questions for Biff
  20. If A Woman Were President
  21. What's Your E-mail Worth?
  22. Definition: Case Quarter
  23. Written Docs
  24. Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus
  25. Clever Video: A Photo A Day
  26. A Wiki Recommendation
  27. Scantily Clad Objects
  28. Star Wars: Under the Tusken Sun
  29. Computer Advice - ITE 115 Style
  30. Us in Slideshow Form
  31. MySpace First Impressions
  32. Microcredit - Simple, Small and Smart
  33. The trickier the problem....
  34. US Air Force Memorial
  35. The Pike at Night
  36. Bachelor For A Week
  37. Winter Memories
  38. Not a good day to be a willow branch
  39. Bested
  40. Fun Kids Projects
  41. How to Taste Single Malt Scotch
  42. The Daily Show At Its Best
  43. Coderless Apps? Don't think so.
  44. Tips for Creating Better PowerPoint Presentations
  45. More Color Palette Generators
  46. Review: Tapeo, Pentagon Row
  47. Blogger and The Script Tag
  48. More Air Force Memorial
  49. One Job I won't Ever Have
  50. Chag Sameach!
  51. The Multi Tasking Myth
  52. Soduko With Your Pictures
  53. Google Widgets - For Any Webpage
  54. Audioblogger Is Going Away
  55. Netcat: More Hacks
  56. Code
  57. The Other Kind Of Projector
  58. Netcat use: rwebtool
  59. Geek Tools: netcat
  60. Coming Together
  61. Review: Cochrane - The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain
  62. Friends
  63. Getting ready
  64. Go Towards The Light

September 2006

  1. You want a quote? I can get you a quote. With nailpolish.
  2. Collaboration Tools - Lifehacker
  3. I am a ...
  4. Programming Quotations
  5. Jad + Emacs
  6. Mobile Content Good News
  7. Howto: Run Linux on a USB Drive
  8. Ring
  9. Secret Messages and Other Goodies
  10. Test from Box.net
  11. A New Year Wish
  12. Mini Howto: Printer Friendly CSS
  13. Clinton Gets Agitated
  14. Cooking Salmon in a Dishwasher
  15. So Engaged
  16. Chag Semeach!
  17. Design Tool: Mood Boards
  18. How do you get creative with your phonecam?
  19. How to explain RSS
  20. Mini Howto: CSS + JSP
  21. How to Deal With An Irate Person
  22. Design Wireframe Tips
  23. Blogger profiles, the undiscovered feature
  24. Jews in sports follow-up
  25. Under Pressure
  26. Scheme Grows Up
  27. Pop Quiz
  28. Jews in Sports - The List
  29. My Cubicle - Funny Clip
  30. Txt'ing Good News
  31. Sunday: Football, Beer and GPRS
  32. Complete
  33. Blogging Meets Tarot Card Reading
  34. Review: Dark Matter by Phillip Kerr
  35. Free Falling
  36. Lyrics Surprise: Born in the USA
  37. Blogging Checklist
  38. Bar Coding Fun
  39. The Best Time to Buy Everything
  40. The Art Of Not Over Doing It
  41. Blue Sky Commute
  42. Presentation Hack: S5 + LAML
  43. Pentagon Memorial Lights
  44. TIME Mobile
  45. Worst Swag Ever
  46. Math Lesson
  47. Wacky Site Of The Day: Hotel Bed Jumping HQ
  48. Developer Offsite Training
  49. Dev Management Ideas and another Peopleware Sighting
  50. Writing Hacks, Part 1: Starting - scottberkun.com
  51. The new schema is official when...
  52. The Ultimate Blog Post
  53. More Design Goodies: Color Jack
  54. Breaking news: Bank Robbery?
  55. Home Sweet Home
  56. Photoshop Tip: Making Quality Gradients
  57. Job Interviews - Break all the rules
  58. Take a Hike!
  59. Review: Invincible
  60. Thinking of you Picture
  61. Wiki + Logo == Cool
  62. Language Wars - My Take
  63. Introduction to Continuations
  64. The Husband Seal
  65. Blogs by E-mail, attempt #2
  66. Ernesto Makes An Appearence
  67. Yes, But is it Kosher?
  68. Nifty Mozilla Plug-In, and New Debugging War Story
  69. Google Apps for Your Domain

August 2006

  1. Scripted Web Apps: Watij
  2. SMS Text Encoder
  3. Mobile Blogging
  4. Introduction to Erlang
  5. Boing Boing: How to really fight terrorists: Anti-terror
  6. Gadget to watch: Chumby
  7. Top 10 Best Presentations...Ever
  8. Corporate Chutzpah
  9. Shmuel and Elana Wedding Pictures
  10. Playground Fun
  11. The Morning After
  12. Like an old married couple
  13. Last Minute Details
  14. Before: The Bride
  15. Pre-Game Show
  16. Whooops, maybe we aren't winning
  17. Flying the friendly skies
  18. Blogs via E-mail
  19. Spooky Note
  20. Nordstroms Adventure
  21. Open Source Inspiriation
  22. Digg Mobile
  23. Hard at work
  24. A Way Out
  25. SMS to AIM Hack
  26. Course Prep - ITE 115
  27. Skinny Books
  28. Shira finally managed to get us into
  29. Review: Copy This!
  30. Performance Tuning PostgreSQL
  31. Programming Practice
  32. On the road to recovery
  33. Programmatic Authoring
  34. How to Remove Spyware and Malware from a Windows computer
  35. Eager Comprehensions for Black Belts - An SRFI 42 Tutorial
  36. Chad Vader Episode 1
  37. CRC Cards - Lightweight Design Tools
  38. Better BlogThis!
  39. Craftzine.com blog
  40. Make your own motivational poster
  41. Online drawing lessons
  42. Homemade sandal bottle openers
  43. Blogger Improvements
  44. 5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)
  45. Wedding photos
  46. Three Men and a Baby
  47. Mission Accomplished
  48. Paradise Found
  49. Review: The Codex
  50. "Yes" Hack
  51. First steps
  52. More Management Tips
  53. Excel Hack: Inline Graphs
  54. Joel on Management
  55. Quote of the night
  56. PNG in Windows IE
  57. Tbody - the key to dynamic table generation
  58. When life gives you lemons...
  59. Judaism 101
  60. CSS Surprises
  61. Caption Me
  62. Ehud Olmert - A Clear Message
  63. Kids, Cakes and Couples
  64. On The Boardwalk
  65. Weekend Getaway
  66. Wikiality - A Reaction or Two
  67. SEO - One Approach
  68. Some like it hot
  69. Entertainment
  70. Joel on Languages
  71. Exotic Animal - In DC?
  72. Testing...
  73. Seeing the Signs

July 2006

  1. Office Essentials
  2. Fonts, fonts and more fonts
  3. It works!
  4. Continuations will continue
  5. Java + TrueType fonts on Linux
  6. Exotic Animal - In DC?
  7. System Administrator Appreciation Day
  8. Site Design Ideas - Lots of them!
  9. Test...
  10. Design Wisdom
  11. Mockups and Stories
  12. Scrum - Lightweight methodolgy meets formality
  13. The Big Cheese's Birthday
  14. Introducing Ryann Emilie
  15. Most Inappropriate Toy
  16. Unexciting Day
  17. Pro Independence
  18. Cool juggling video
  19. Fun in the sun
  20. A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation
  21. Mapping Done Well
  22. Caffeine: The Caffeine Corner
  23. The AIM BudgetBot
  24. Restaurant Review: Bistro Med
  25. Jewelry Hack
  26. At the Canal
  27. Trendspotting with Google Suggest for Google News
  28. Phrases You'll Hear
  29. SMS for Geeks
  30. Staying on Message
  31. You know you have been working on a design too long
  32. Automatic Image Layout
  33. Seth's Blog: What should Digg do?
  34. Find great podcasts
  35. Zappos - advice and inspiration
  36. How to Cut a Mango
  37. Web Whiteboard
  38. Ten things programmers might want to know about marketers
  39. Writer's block? 10 Killer Post Ideas
  40. WikiBios.com - Ben Simon's Biography
  41. Israel, Gaza and True Intentions
  42. Free Guide for Google AdWords
  43. Text Me
  44. This could all be yours
  45. CSI Arlington
  46. Cool Tool: Painting Idea
  47. Waiting for the fireworks
  48. Me. Hot. Very. Hot.
  49. Yenta Notes - Jewish Mother Ringtones
  50. Why Design Is Hard
  51. The Happy Couple
  52. Sunday in DC
  53. First Post

June 2006

  1. Poor network performance? Check the duplex dude
  2. And my vision is...
  3. Waiting
  4. Things To Read - Blog Recommendations
  5. Taking on Wal-Mart
  6. Play Day
  7. She Likes It
  8. This might just all come together
  9. 8 Years, 1 Night
  10. Perl: Here documents
  11. Perl: Here documents
  12. Bad traffic
  13. R6RS Status Report
  14. Review: The Genome War
  15. Study: People think their emails are twice as funny as they really are
  16. Mazel Tov!
  17. Still no pen
  18. My favorite sign in DC
  19. Passing Through
  20. Unobtrusive Sidenotes
  21. Steven Hargrove: How to redirect a web page, the smart way
  22. An Unexpected Deal
  23. Corn on the cob hack
  24. T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Cell Phone
  25. Book Review: Good To Great
  26. Micro Persuasion: 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today
  27. Making yourself heard
  28. Why Blogger?
  29. CVS for Non-Developers
  30. Scheme2Js - Mixing JavaScript and scheme
  31. Job Interview Questions and Answers
  32. 5th Grade Graduation
  33. Tips for managing a blog
  34. Entertainment by Spencer
  35. Caption Me
  36. Our first bud
  37. Worst. Feature. Ever
  38. Doing My Civic Duty
  39. Choosing a candidate
  40. Feed'in time
  41. review: A Fairwell to Arms
  42. Car detailing day
  43. The Ice Cream Truck
  44. JSON - A common sense exchange format
  45. Wiky: A Bidirectional Markup Converter
  46. Garden by Teresa
  47. Wendy's Fixes It Fries
  48. Practical Common Lisp - Google Video
  49. Mini date night
  50. HOW TO - Garmin eTrex data cable
  51. Seth's Blog: What do I find?
  52. Cleaning up
  53. The missing link
  54. Google Spreadsheets - Sneak Peek
  55. Fooling themselves
  56. Everything Scheme: Mini Kanren and the Da Vinci Quest, part II
  57. Ari and Vera's Wedding
  58. Mmmm Tasty
  59. Micro publishing in Action
  60. It's official!
  61. Preparing to party
  62. Strictly Artificial
  63. Al Gore as President
  64. MP3 hat hack
  65. Paper Toys

May 2006

  1. How to not get a job
  2. Summer Time
  3. Advergame: Pulling the Perfect Pint
  4. ASCII Art Memories
  5. Rest stop
  6. One of the family
  7. Catch of day
  8. Gone Fishing
  9. Shower prep
  10. Yummies
  11. Off by 1 error
  12. Marriage proposal suggestion - write the book
  13. How to Erase Old Marks off a Dry Erase Board - WikiHow
  14. Icing: Lightweight web development
  15. Broadcast Your Podcast
  16. JavaScript Shell
  17. Good Advice
  18. Garmin eTrex Review
  19. Gliffy - a quick peek
  20. Fear in marketing
  21. Field Ready
  22. It's Official
  23. How to watch a graduation
  24. Filling up
  25. The Doctor makes a followup
  26. A view from Boston
  27. Rushing
  28. Web Site Design Tutorial
  29. David Holt: Music - How To Play The Spoons
  30. Airplane Tracker
  31. Climate Control
  32. Not as private as you may think
  33. Bluish Coder: Google Web Toolkit
  34. Playing with Prototype
  35. Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
  36. 101 things you can do in Firefox
  37. Playing Hookey
  38. Add Bookmark via Javascript
  39. Moms
  40. Clinton vs. Bush - The honesty question
  41. The Power
  42. Clever Country Lyrics
  43. Management Advice
  44. Linking Experiment
  45. Google Trends
  46. The Dr. makes a house call
  47. Words as Design Elements
  48. More bug issues
  49. Spam, or highly targeted mobile content?
  50. Show, don't tell
  51. Design Envy
  52. www.todolistblog.com
  53. Copywriting 101
  54. Inform 7 - Smart text games
  55. Hard at work
  56. Cold Blooded
  57. Pricing a Project
  58. MAKE: Blog: $20 Dry erase board - ElephantStaircase
  59. Tricks of the Trade
  60. TV in Japan - The Marketing Sidestory
  61. Startup Lessons
  62. Scheme in JavaScript
  63. The End
  64. Voice mail irony
  65. Thinking Forth
  66. Review: Manassas
  67. A walk recorded

April 2006

  1. Sunday, sunny Sunday
  2. Birthday evening
  3. Birthday revenge of the blog
  4. The Truth About George W. Bush - Bushisms
  5. The Top Ten Lies of Engineers
  6. Shots from around the office
  7. Digital Digressions: Death by Powerpoint
  8. Boing Boing: New episode of The IT Crowd, awesome sysadmin sitcom
  9. Gliffy.com - Diagram and draw in your web browser
  10. Satellite Office
  11. Thoughts on Process
  12. The ants go marching ...
  13. Deep Thought of the Night
  14. Deep Thought of the Night
  15. LED Throwies
  16. Fifty Ways to Take Notes - Solution Watch
  17. The Aggregate: Fisheye Digital Imaging For Under Twenty Dollars
  18. The Aggregate: Fisheye Digital Imaging For Under Twenty Dollars
  19. Passover: Lessons Learned
  20. Heavy on the Chevy
  21. The Personal MBA
  22. Entertainment
  23. The perfect mitzvah
  24. Management Tips
  25. Passover has passed over
  26. Recipe: Mom's Marvelous Matzo Balls
  27. Closet 2.0
  28. In Memory
  29. You know you are in the boonies when...
  30. Wiped
  31. Final preparations
  32. MONEY Magazine's Best Jobs
  33. DMV - done
  34. DMV - photo time
  35. DMV - start time
  36. On readiblity and scheme
  37. Cleaning time
  38. The man has skills
  39. Review: Takedown
  40. Lost at sea
  41. T809 and Reversed Photos
  42. Moved up - a bit
  43. Sinking feeling
  44. Favorite table name
  45. More aerial shots
  46. Typical gate location
  47. Review: Capote
  48. Albany Visit
  49. Helping out
  50. Date night
  51. Hoping for Mundane
  52. CSS Layout Collection
  53. Home made less lethal weapon
  54. Not your typical shopping trip
  55. Book Review: The Non-Designer's Design Book
  56. MAKE: Blog: Nokia 7610 gaffer tape fisheye mod
  57. MAKE: Blog: Hackable Juice Box Personal Media Player - $10

March 2006

  1. Textpad and ant
  2. Subversion Cheat Sheet
  3. Conferencing on the cheap
  4. Wisdom Of Crowds - the quick version
  5. Official Google Blog: And we're back
  6. IT Conversations: Clayton Christensen - Capturing the Upside
  7. British Surivival Guides
  8. Quick (Apache) Logging Hack
  9. AJAX -- where to start?
  10. See Google's Redesign Experiment
  11. Book review: The Watchman
  12. Optical Illusions
  13. Wired News: World's Greatest Tool: Duct Tape?
  14. Explaining and Fixing java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen
  15. Another First
  16. Rush Hour
  17. Trafficonomy - How to Check if Your Listed and Ranking
  18. Shoes on demand
  19. Customizing Tomcat - Turning off directory listings
  20. Lyrics: We Didn't Start the Fire
  21. How to Safely Get Rid of an Old Computer - WikiHow
  22. Contractor Wisdom
  23. Work smarter, not louder
  24. Entrepreneurial Proverbs
  25. Nasty AIM Virus
  26. House progress
  27. Shoes at Zappos.com - The Web's Most Popular Shoe Store! Our shoe store features dress shoes, casual shoes, and athletic shoes for men and women!
  28. Be smarter at work, slack off - Mar. 17, 2006
  29. Useful kitchen appliance
  30. E-mail citations -- emacs does outlook
  31. Piano Man
  32. Us
  33. Business Cards -- leave home without them
  34. Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator
  35. Arlington Alert
  36. Tivo Adventure - Getting on the network
  37. Scheme Pet Store -- Update
  38. Purim Celebration
  39. Me and <insert_name_here>
  40. Tivo news
  41. On top of the world (or at least Ben)
  42. Fun with the fam
  43. Kids tip: Coloring Books
  44. The gang's here
  45. Perfectionism
  46. FishTagger
  47. Fun and games
  48. Big Time
  49. Publishing Made (Very) Easy
  50. Thread dump - Tips
  51. Squidoo Homepage
  52. Coming out of the closet
  53. JSP/Servlet Hosting
  54. BBC NEWS | South Asia | The amazing DIY village FM radio station
  55. Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
  56. DIY: Light Box / Light Tent
  57. Feel the need...the need for speed
  58. Our new setup
  59. Just Bite
  60. Back in the chair
  61. How's your company doing?
  62. The Sis is Engaged!
  63. Why you should go on travel with your wife
  64. New Selection
  65. It's not a new car...
  66. Designing a homepage: Magnatune
  67. One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and travelling light)

February 2006

  1. Caption Me - Again
  2. Marketing Chutzpah
  3. Aerial View
  4. A new family member
  5. The Rocket comes in for a landing
  6. Dual Zone
  7. Misery Loves Company
  8. Gift from the heart
  9. Saying Goodbye
  10. Shira in Simpsons Form
  11. Ben in Simpsons Form
  12. Seth's Blog: Categories and the short head
  13. Flash MX: Creating Components
  14. Lining up the shot
  15. Prep Time
  16. Photo-0025.jpg
  17. Caption Me
  18. Nifty Theft deterent
  19. Mini Howto: Gnus for Mail, Outlook for Calendar
  20. Review: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
  21. Zoom-Zoom
  22. Reading the instructions
  23. A day at the office: Cupid's Heart
  24. Aged to perfection
  25. More to learn
  26. Winter Wonderland
  27. Dental Adventure: Root canal
  28. Coolest dad ever
  29. True Love
  30. Useful site: Mail Big File
  31. Fun and Games
  32. Photoshop Web Design Tips
  33. Competing against the best
  34. Crown progress
  35. Mobile blogging blues
  36. Testing...
  37. Does blogging work?
  38. Boston Trip 2/3 Complete
  39. Marketing at Work
  40. Review: How to start a conversation
  41. Quiz time...
  42. Low Expectations
  43. His and Her Media
  44. Tiny Howto: Getting log4j to make noise
  45. Tiny Howto: HTTP PUT

January 2006

  1. Hilton head
  2. Some Beach
  3. The Printable CEO
  4. Real Hacking
  5. Ben on Good Code
  6. Excitement on the Pike
  7. YouTube - State of the Union 2006 -- Bush Impression
  8. Custom shirt from words on your blog - Lifehacker
  9. Kosher Wine in Arlington, VA
  10. Book Store Visit
  11. Scoutmaster: A Highly Evolved Mess Kit
  12. Lunch
  13. Culinary Treat
  14. Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Bootstrapping
  15. Teaching -- ITD 210
  16. Song of the Day: Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
  17. Free Range Librarian: Being Able to Write: Lessons from Other Writers, New and Well-Seasoned
  18. Waiting
  19. Just Business
  20. Hacking Idea: Blog Sketchpad
  21. Pellet gun fires dog treats for fat pups to chase
  22. StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
  23. Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: R U in the Loop?
  24. Runner's high
  25. Lie Detector Electronic Kit
  26. Testing...
  27. Kitties
  28. Rose of the Month
  29. Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
  30. New Information Tracking Technique
  31. Speech: Al Gore on Wiretapping
  32. Local: Upcoming Arlington, VA Torah Weekend
  33. Self-stick whiteboard sheets
  34. Lucid dreaming - FAQ and Howto
  35. Google Goodies
  36. Guy Kawasaki: The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
  37. Extra Parts
  38. Review: The Weblog Handbook
  39. Byte Converter
  40. Windows and Symbolic links
  41. Ready, Ready, Pull
  42. Changing the brakes
  43. Hacking: BASIC Stemp & The 7-Segment Display
  44. Quick Version: How to Win Friends & Influence People
  45. Intimidation
  46. Favorite pastime
  47. Supermarket Observations
  48. Dentist Appointment
  49. Making dinner
  50. i2x Merchandise
  51. hebcal.com: Interactive Jewish Calendar Tools
  52. Mozilla -- ExtensionsIE Tab
  53. Poynter Online -- Writing Tools
  54. Air & Space Visit
  55. Shira and WWII Era airplane
  56. Ben and the Enterprise
  57. SR-71 Blackbird -- It goes fast!
  58. Ben and the Enola Gay
  59. Building Progress
  60. Starbucks Pricing - how do they do that?
  61. Google Find: Music Search Results
  62. Unexpected Attraction
  63. Seth's Blog: How to be lied to
  64. Current News cloud - Google News Tags by NEWZingo
  65. Midbook review: To the Ends of the Earth, by Elizabeth Lowel
  66. Poor UI
  67. Loot, loot and more loot
  68. Ben and the Gift Box
  69. Geek to Live: How to find the perfect productivity tools - Lifehacker
  70. Us
  71. Erasable Shower Note Tablet
  72. Scenes from a trip to the mall
  73. Independence Air - Going out of business
  74. The 8th day
  75. Run away Zamboni
  76. She loves me but...
  77. 2006: One of our midnight kisses

2005 511

December 2005

  1. This is scene that greeted me as i
  2. Reuters.com - $1 million Web Idea
  3. JavaSpaces
  4. MF Bliki: FluentInterface
  5. BeanShell - Another use found
  6. Candle light dinner
  7. My first grown up wallet
  8. Chanukah with the Rubins
  9. Lighting candles
  10. Holiday Traditions
  11. Holiday breakfast
  12. Here's what Republicans said about Clinton and Kosovo
  13. Christmas Dinner
  14. Review: Republican Noise Machine by David Brock
  15. Happy Holidays!
  16. Ben and Greg
  17. Shira's latest toy
  18. How to Monitor MySQL's performance
  19. MercuryNews.com | 12/22/2005 | A forceful rejection of `intelligent design'
  20. Smoking
  21. There goes the neighborhood
  22. A List Apart: Thinking Outside the Grid
  23. A List Apart: Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist
  24. Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005
  25. Ten most needed circuits for the DIYer
  26. DIY - Paper Bookmarks
  27. Books, precious books
  28. Acura Service
  29. Getting bash key-combinations to work
  30. Security, casino style
  31. Why conservatives hate MP3 players
  32. The Website Development Process - In Legos
  33. Ultra Low-Fi: Sounds from the casino
  34. Quick Trip - Atlantic City
  35. Gifts for a family in need
  36. PrototypingTools
  37. Gmail Mobile
  38. Cork Boat
  39. Second worst way to start your day
  40. Under the knife
  41. The Rosenthal Effect
  42. Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days - Day 1
  43. Holiday Extravaganza
  44. Is this Entrepreneurship?
  45. How to Make a Chicago Hot Dog
  46. Emacs for Microsoft Windows
  47. Logo choices
  48. MetaUML -- UML for LaTeX/MetaPost
  49. MAKE: Blog: The MAKEbot is here!
  50. Good Experience Games
  51. Football - a day of firsts
  52. Seth's Blog: Please hold
  53. The Bomber - concluded
  54. Saying goodbye
  55. Unix Power Tools
  56. Off by a few degrees
  57. My Next Stove
  58. One man's trouble is another's opportunity
  59. Holy Crepe!
  60. Learning to Program
  61. MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!
  62. Test...
  63. Test...
  64. Disaster in the making
  65. FlipClips : Turn Your Digital Video Clips into Paper FlipClips!
  66. Birthday Lunch
  67. Lunch
  68. The Vegetarian Guide to Washington, D.C.
  69. Digital Divide
  70. Breakfast
  71. Last Date
  72. Midbook Review: The Bomber
  73. Local Search Conference
  74. Moblogging Blues
  75. InBubbleWrap - Free Stuff?

November 2005

  1. textually.org: Mobile phone firm launches handset for four-year-olds
  2. Buy.com - FLY Pentop Computer
  3. TECTONIC: MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
  4. Duct Tape Workshop
  5. The "long hours at the new job" solution
  6. Good Programming Style
  7. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make Flipbooks
  8. Ben's law of printer behavior
  9. Cool Tool: The Curtis Creek Manifesto
  10. Lucky via a Stranger
  11. Reuters: Cranberries may help prevent cavities: study
  12. Tricycle of the Future
  13. Software Teams
  14. A Minor Redesign
  15. AIM bots...again...
  16. Things to be thankful for
  17. Review: The Longest Yard
  18. White Thanksgiving?
  19. Unexpected Addition
  20. Making Windows Usable for Old Linux Farts
  21. A case of the Mondays
  22. AIM Bots: Useful or Spam?
  23. My Subscription Numbers
  24. Hacking an LCD
  25. Warning Label
  26. First day of work
  27. Goodwill Trip
  28. Life Lesson
  29. Bumper Sticker of the Day
  30. Introduction to Mobloggling
  31. Warning Label?!
  32. Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms
  33. In Memory of Daniel J. Blumenthal
  34. collision detection: Does Africa really need the $100 laptop?
  35. The Thinker
  36. First Impressions
  37. Duct Tape Marketing: voice mail marketing
  38. Dinner from the Fam
  39. Good to be back
  40. Killer App
  41. What's New?
  42. Rental
  43. Deep Thought
  44. This rental phone is nokia 6010
  45. Further Wow
  46. Wowgosh my sidekick had me spoiled
  47. Testoy
  48. Google Analytics
  49. Family breakfast
  50. Unbundled News
  51. Shira's new obsession
  52. A real cell phone network
  53. Adverblog: Heineken, online marketing with Google Image Search
  54. The Good House
  55. Mind Games
  56. Crafty Lady
  57. Hibachi
  58. DSL Setup Experience
  59. A gaggle of Simons
  60. It's all greek to me
  61. True Happiness
  62. Discovery
  63. On the line
  64. A Real MP3 Player
  65. Track Eye View
  66. U2 -- Hear the feeling
  67. Ultra Low Budget PDA
  68. Good news about texting
  69. In a Frank Mood
  70. Meal instructions

October 2005

  1. Black Diamond Railroad Trail
  2. Yummy Dinner
  3. Test...test...
  4. Boing Boing: Telecommuting Video Blog
  5. Cool Tool: Instant Period Costumes
  6. Seth's Blog: Tools vs. Craftsmen
  7. Close counts in horseshoes, not marketing
  8. Testing...testing....
  9. Still Performing
  10. The Other Kind of Program Scalability
  11. Choose your own metaphor
  12. Book review: Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff
  13. iPod for Medical images
  14. Super-simple DIY synth plans
  15. Small Business Trends: Top 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs
  16. Attack of the Zombie Copy
  17. Announcement: Scheme Pet Store
  18. Hand Written Notes -- success stories
  19. Scenes from the day
  20. Shopping quiz
  21. Sneaker Net Hack
  22. Roadside mystery
  23. You know you know a route well when ...
  24. Scenes from a U2 concert
  25. My First Podcast
  26. French joke gone bad
  27. When TV Anchors Fib
  28. Boing Boing: Daily Show on bird flu
  29. Seth's Blog: Understanding the Long Tail
  30. Inventing the Internet. Did Al Gore Invent the Internet?
  31. Hand Written Notes Have Become A Power Tool
  32. Binary Odometer
  33. Little things, big differences
  34. Ideas Are Cheap
  35. ITD 210 -- Developing a Web Design Course
  36. The Advertising Slogan Generator
  37. Meat'normous - huh?
  38. Wendy's Fruit'normous
  39. Closet progress: temporary solution
  40. Closet Repair 101
  41. Zell Miller - Concluded
  42. Why Podcasts are Cool
  43. Total Closet Meltdown
  44. Starting a Business in Arlington, VA
  45. Review: Trio Mach Speed MP3 player (256 mb)
  46. Moving Time
  47. Fun with the fam
  48. Bus Station Run
  49. Cruddy Weather
  50. Fun With Guns
  51. BAN IT!
  52. SuccessNet Quotation Library
  53. Thoughts on Shoes
  54. Harriet Miers - Wikipedia
  55. Schools Matter: Gore's Remarks on the Current Threats to Democracy
  56. Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
  57. Happy New Year
  58. Bringing back the dead
  59. The $100 laptop moves closer to reality
  60. Build your own Z80 computer
  61. Mystery of Women: shoes
  62. Tivo Thoughts
  63. Husband's Worst Fear
  64. Fun on a Saturday Night

September 2005

  1. Round peg, square hole
  2. A hand-held kiosk
  3. Accident in progress
  4. On the difference between unlikely and impossible
  5. Married to a CSI
  6. Zell - some thoughts
  7. New Dry Cleaner
  8. Don't tell mom....
  9. Delivery Boy
  10. Quick HOWTO: Linux Software RAID
  11. Me in South Park form
  12. Abstractions considered harmful?
  13. Church of the Customer: A different type of Apple evangelist
  14. g4u - Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs
  15. Road Trip Picknic
  16. Morse to MIDI ringtone generator
  17. My Politics...
  18. Midnight Services
  19. Sell A Pixel - or how to pay for college
  20. What the?
  21. Pre-Rita gas prices
  22. Clear instructions
  23. When stereotypes don't lie
  24. Forest of Links: Portable Linux on my Thumbdrive.
  25. Presentation Zen
  26. The Daily Show -- The Roberts Hearing
  27. Spiderman 2 and all the snacks you can eat!
  28. It's All About Revenue : 30 Days, $1000, And No Help
  29. Twinsparc � UPDATED - HTMLstamps
  30. Small Business Trends: On Wal-Mart, Small Businesses and Business Ecosystems
  31. Google Secure Access Installer
  32. Hanukkah in September
  33. Just add pressure
  34. Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
  35. Bias - concluded
  36. Spa day...
  37. OnStar and smart marketing
  38. Podcasting....
  39. Searching out business blogs
  40. Donations...
  41. Google Blog Search
  42. TV Show Idea
  43. It Lives!
  44. Free Audio Books
  45. Only in a Red State
  46. Mobido
  47. AtomFilms - Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
  48. The New GPS
  49. How low can you go?
  50. Visit from the Bro
  51. Some Beach
  52. B&S @ O.C.
  53. Scenes from a run
  54. Calm before the storm
  55. Nerdtv
  56. You as a Cyborg
  57. In Print
  58. Female Logic
  59. Object Design
  60. Husbandsforsale.com
  61. Java Source Code -- Online
  62. The Jewish View Of Katrina
  63. Congestion...
  64. Gas data point
  65. Noo-Noos
  66. Luben
  67. Fun with Nick and Lauren
  68. Shoes
  69. Mmmm....yummy...
  70. Disposable Personal Organizer
  71. Bed of Nails
  72. Curb Rash - repaired
  73. Wedding II, the sequel
  74. Fun with screensavers
  75. NPR : Bagging One Job for Another
  76. U.S. Attonery's law enforcement priorities - yikes
  77. Information Architecture
  78. Latest must have mobile office device

August 2005

  1. Herndon Restaurants and Reviews
  2. Bias - mid point review
  3. Inside Katrina
  4. Mmmmm...soy balls
  5. Community Policing
  6. What's RSS? The super easy explanation
  7. Shira and Ben
  8. Ahhh, that's the problem
  9. Startup School
  10. Wedding Time
  11. Our next venture into advertising
  12. Bullet in Nose
  13. O'h brother, where art thou?
  14. All dressed up, and nowhere to go....
  15. $30.00 Digital Camcorder
  16. Publishing Thoughts
  17. Get Recipes on your Apple iPod
  18. In Business
  19. Going Away Flowers
  20. Cuddling Slugs
  21. Old Town at Night
  22. Yet Another Hacking Project...
  23. Midnight patching
  24. Hardware Hacking
  25. Husband Trainer Magazine
  26. Beastie Boys - Make your own music
  27. Make Your Own Magazine Cover
  28. Views from Old Towne
  29. Adverblog: Do-it-yourself online marketing
  30. Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... survive the rise of the undead
  31. Ideas and Execution
  32. Birthday Princess
  33. Gps + Cell Phone = Dinner
  34. Happy first birthday!
  35. Fun with the parents
  36. Nifty Novel - ttyl
  37. Newest Family Member
  38. Album of the Day
  39. Ohr Somayach - Ask The Rabbi / Browse Topics
  40. My Banker
  41. Computer Shopping
  42. Song of the Day
  43. collision detection: 8-bit ideology
  44. Dude Where's My Country - thoughts
  45. We're In Business!
  46. Going postal
  47. Quote of the day
  48. A game of Jenga
  49. Tish'a B'Av
  50. Mini turns 100,000!
  51. Personas in the wild
  52. Where the sidewalk ends
  53. Fun baby sitting
  54. Free Book: Concrete Abstractions
  55. Gutter cleaning
  56. Next Programming Model -- My 2 cents
  57. More Movie Making
  58. You know you are an adult when...
  59. Scary Driving
  60. Just Because Gift
  61. Mmm, Mmmm, Good
  62. Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis
  63. The best gift Chevy ever gave me
  64. New home theatre system
  65. Beading
  66. Xbox Movie Making
  67. Car Sunday
  68. Reading Material
  69. A family affair
  70. Mobile phone for children
  71. Heading to Rochester
  72. Air Tran gets points
  73. Paul Graham: What Business Can Learn from Open Source
  74. Technology in a parking garage?
  75. Mobile Office Essential
  76. Cryptopunk � A Lisp to JavaScript Compiler in 100 Lines
  77. Attack Dogs
  78. Scenes from a ball game
  79. Fair or foul?
  80. Putting the journal to good use
  81. Getting Shira's drugs
  82. T-mobile - a new low
  83. The good life
  84. Dude Where's My Country - some thoughts

July 2005

  1. For Sale: 2 wheels + tires
  2. Weeds: the before picture
  3. Brady on the web
  4. Hardware hacker
  5. Committee meeting time
  6. Anyone ever heard of this movie?
  7. More eBay success
  8. Wapedia - Dazed and Confused Drinking Game
  9. Just because
  10. Hot 27
  11. Cause and effect
  12. foldedspace.org: Get Rich Slowly!
  13. Forbes.com Best of the Web
  14. Programming with Components in MzScheme
  15. OfficeGuns
  16. Components and Types
  17. Sharp's Escape
  18. Argh...
  19. Fair trade?
  20. Things to listen to
  21. Tree saw? We don't need no stinkin' tree saw
  22. Weeds flowering?
  23. Operation Tree Trim
  24. Love All
  25. Sunday Traffic Jam
  26. Lots of Loot
  27. Field testing...
  28. Install what?
  29. Sidekick price matching hack
  30. Finally, an office with a view
  31. Winning the gamble
  32. Nerds and their adventures
  33. Nifty idea: dotprodomains.com: creative domain name resellers
  34. The new tube
  35. Anything worth doing is worth doing twice
  36. New TV: good news and bad news
  37. Yes, this is me working
  38. My favorite kind of shopping
  39. Mmmm...dinner
  40. Road rage
  41. 52 ounces of pleasure
  42. Ben
  43. Joys of home ownership
  44. Bracelet fun
  45. Bowling
  46. Compact?
  47. Went for a Swim
  48. Beauty and the Geek - TV at its most painful
  49. Life's little pleasures
  50. Stranded
  51. The Island
  52. Movie?!
  53. Early Web App Designs
  54. The Ladies @ Work
  55. Book pickup for Shira
  56. Shiny Meats
  57. Watch surgery
  58. Definition: Backcasting
  59. More shoe shopping
  60. New workout
  61. Extra Parts
  62. Doing the car wash
  63. Car Fun
  64. Party
  65. Shira on Ben's blogging
  66. Windshield art
  67. The joy of carpooling
  68. Rainy Friday
  69. Mall hacking
  70. A cute babe
  71. Baby Sitting
  72. Happy 4th of July
  73. 7 years and still going strong
  74. Synchro
  75. Our first synchronized swim meet
  76. Getting a jump on the day
  77. What a face!
  78. Another Rochester trip completed
  79. More Rochester Pics
  80. Lunch with the family
  81. Getting Married
  82. Adventure cut short
  83. O Canada
  84. Picking up the tuxes
  85. Even a child could fly our plane
  86. Shuffling off to Buffalo

June 2005

  1. Dinner made for us
  2. Errands
  3. Office field trip
  4. From Python to Scheme
  5. Scenes from a shopping trip
  6. Watching the lightning
  7. In the eye of the storm
  8. SISCWeb -- Initial Thoughts
  9. The gift that keeps on rolling
  10. Chasing Jewels
  11. The Card
  12. Anniversary lunch
  13. Dry cleaning
  14. Elana the Hacker
  15. My Resume
  16. A new low
  17. Funeral
  18. Greenwich
  19. Playing Mr. Fixit
  20. Speechless
  21. Playing Hookey
  22. poker tech: Why Erlang
  23. Airport Run
  24. No jeans?
  25. Evening Stroll
  26. Cool presentation hack
  27. Men at work
  28. collision detection: Of wikitorials -- and the glory of the "neutral point of view"
  29. Look who's driving the acura
  30. Disruptive Programming Language Technologies
  31. 1 tape down, 7 to go
  32. Cleanup day at work
  33. Blood donation
  34. What a difference 20 degrees makes
  35. Can't forget about the shoes
  36. Names are tough
  37. Ben 1, Weeds 0
  38. Shoes
  39. Buick leak check
  40. CNN.com - Kutsher's: Last of Borscht Belt resorts - Jun 16, 2005
  41. Caleb's Graduation
  42. Weeds
  43. Library trip
  44. Heat + Running
  45. Blog as a boomark server?
  46. Why moblog?
  47. Where have a I been all this time?
  48. Another book completed
  49. Link post test
  50. Is this thing on?

May 2005

  1. Ain't she cute?
  2. Pushing the envelope
  3. Blogging from e-mail
  4. My first post

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