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I am stupid. :) Tonight I decided to try troubleshooting our Internet connection (it's been down since Monday), so I called my roommate up and he gave me the IP address to access the router via HTTP. Did that and it looked like everything was in order, but ...
This morning I took the bus up to Salt Lake with a friend and watched the new Joseph Smith movie. Amazing. I really, really liked it. Before I saw it, I was half afraid it wouldn't live up to my expectations, but there wasn't any cause for ...
It's time for another round of What-Books-Are-On-Ben's-Desk. :) We have the scriptures, of course; then Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon (I'm a few chapters in), Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things, the Bible in Spanish and German, George MacDonald's Phantastes, Sheila Davis's The Craft of Lyric ...
Well, I've discovered that LibraryThing is very addicting. :) I couldn't help myself and so I ended up adding around 70 books to my collection (online, that is). You can check out my profile here: crowderb. Two interesting things to look at are my ...
Have I mentioned LibraryThing yet? It's an online book cataloguing system with tags and all sorts of neat stuff. Right now I only have one book listed, but I started entering my books into an Excel spreadsheet this evening (300 so far, out of roughly 600 if ...
Found a very interesting article on ontology (classifying information -- like the Library of Congress system and the Dewey decimal system, for example): Ontology is Overrated.
I'm thinking about moving to a CMS for Blank Slate. Coding by hand is cool, but it's the 21st century and I think I'd rather focus on the content. Using a CMS will help me work on the site more often, too -- I won't have to ...
After six posts in a single day, one day missed feels like a long time. :) The Internet connection at my apartment has been down since Monday night (hopefully they're getting it fixed right now), thus no post.
At work I've been writing a content management system for the Center's ...
I've started posting some of my mission pictures on Flickr: Thailand Photos
Check this blog post out: A Few Tips on Restoring Civility
