Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Six Apart sucks (really)

October 27th, 2006 / 29 Comments / life

Vox sucks. I figured it would suck. It’s a product from Six Apart. Six Apart went from being the darling of all the blogging companies to…sucking.
I was originally going to call this article “Vox sucks,” but when I started writing I realized that it’s not just Vox, it’s all of the products […]

Where have I been?

October 25th, 2006 / No Comments / life

I’ve been posting fairly sporadically lately. I could tell you that I’m busy (I am) and I could tell you that I hate using WordPress (I don’t) but really I’ve just felt uninspired. I’ve started a few posts but they all seem to be beating the same dead topics into the ground.
I really […]

AppleCare saves the day

October 3rd, 2006 / 2 Comments / life

My MacBook recently started showing the early symptoms of “Random Shutdown Syndrome.” It turned off on it’s own on Saturday, September 30th. It took three tries to turn it back on. After Derek’s and Paul’s stories I knew that I likely had RSS.
I have talked to Derek about his problem and his […]

Are you Googling me?

September 27th, 2006 / 5 Comments / life

I notice Google referring quite a few visitors lately and almost all of them are searching “Ben Bleikamp.” I would suspect it was family and friends, but most of the referrals aren’t from google.com - they’re from .ca, .cz, etc. Lots of country domains.
So are you Googling me? And if you are, […]

9rules sucks (ok, not really)

September 6th, 2006 / 13 Comments / life

If the title of this post sounds like I’m about to talk about how awful, unnecessary, pointless, or ridiculous 9rules is then that’s only partially true. I wrote the title to get you to read the post. You see, I like 9rules. I visit the site a few times a week, I […]

The new car

August 27th, 2006 / 11 Comments / life

My first goal this summer was to buy my dream computer setup. Done. My second goal was to buy myself a car. And now, I can happily say, done. Work has treated me very well this summer, for a few weeks at the beginning I was starting to get a bit […]