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My Operating System History


I grew up with Windows 3.11 and was quite fond of it. I had WordPerfect, I could run solitaire, and my mom’s IBM PS/2 ThinkPad booted in a flash. I could run some cool games in DOS and make simple programs in Q-Basic. At school, we had Apple II’s. We hated them and commented how [...]

Posting to my blog from Office 2007


This is amazing. I just posted this entry to WordPress from Office 2007. To do that, I set up a blog account by:

Click the Windows Office Logo in the upper left hand corner.

Select the Publish Menu

Select the Blog Option

Enter in your information in the Wizard that follows and you’ll be up and running in no [...]

Destination Bangalore, London Calling


This year is turning into the Ben World Tour. Having spent the first week of this year in Costa Rica, my next big trip will be spring break studying in the Netherlands. I’ll be in Amsterdam studying health practices with a class offered through Case.
I just purchased my ticket to Bangalore, India. I’ll be working with [...]

Costa Rica and Life off the Grid


Life off ‘the grid’ was not so bad. Twenty days really was not that long of a time. At first, I had some urges to check my email. Throughout the entire experiment, not checking my email was the hardest part. I got used to using the yellow pages to look up phone numbers. When all [...]