why not ben: Archive

“So the names must conform to Islamic morality, and it’s possible that the...”

– Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain Yet another reason the current crop of URL shorteners are potentially bad for the web. Scary to think of the millions of links which could go dark due to how centralized these services are.

Mar 31st

Mar 30th

“If the bill becomes law, Vermont would become the first state in the country to...”

– VPR News: Senate approves same-sex marriage bill. Way to go, VT Senate! (via brandtkurowski) Way to go, indeed! Let’s hope it happens.

Mar 24th

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wow, I can’t remember the last time there were whitecaps on the connecticut. It’s super windy out there!

Mar 23rd

Nursing a sore leg after a frost heaved sidewalk took issue with my running Bailey in the dark and sprawled me on my george castanza wallet.

Mar 23rd

Deep thought: why do iced coffees cost more than hot ones?

Mar 21st

Whoa! I missed that tumblr added a whole twitter UI. I’m really digging it so far!

Mar 21st

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Very cool DOB/SSN input form elements @ ShareBuilder: I’ve never seen these implemented this way before. I really like it!

Mar 21st

Mar 20th

Evacuating due to supposed fire in the building. Bailey is none too pleased http://twitpic.com/2afqb

Mar 20th

Another amazing group I caught while in Austin was...

Mar 20th

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ppj was a pretty amazing one-man band! Check him out on myspace: myspace.com/possessedbypauljames

Mar 20th

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The man’s 85 years old and was totally rocking the place from Midnight till past my bedtime. My clip doesn’t do him justice… it was too loud for the iPhone’s poor little mic.

Mar 20th

Feeling super manly after replacing both the headlamps in my car without once looking up directions.

Mar 20th

Finished our panel which I think went well overall. The questions were great and the probably best part. #sxsw

Mar 16th

Come check out our panel in Room B @ 10am tomorrow! We’re talking about the newly launched http://echospace.org. #sxsw

Mar 16th

I think I should win an award for worst packing job! It’s raining… D’oh! #sxsw

Mar 15th

Loving that @mknapp is sending ‘text messages to the cloud’

Mar 14th

Made it to Austin after a long day of travel w/ michael. Had a nice dinner @Ellis at Moonshine, now sleep!

Mar 14th

Getting ready to head down to Austin for #sxsw in the morning. For those going, I’m going to be on a panel Tuesday: http://bit.ly/GkUUE

Mar 13th

Had an awesome morning skiing, now work time.

Mar 10th

staying up much too late hacking on quotably.com once again. New architecture is seeming promising.

Mar 7th