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I needed a list of websites of all the Fortune 500 from 2007 for my masters project. Unfortunately, Fortune wanted to charge me hundreds of dollars to get some fancy excel spreadsheet with much more information than I really needed. I suspect there are other people out there who might find this list useful, so [...]

Part of my masters project work involves using network measurement tools to garner information about a path to a website. One useful type of tool that I don’t believe is used that often is a bandwidth estimation tool. These type of tools employ one of a variety of methods to estimate the available bandwidth between [...]

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 [...]

After reading an article about a PC World writer who goes without a PC for twenty days, I was inspired to try it out for myself. The question is…how?
Unlike the writer, I am not doing this for a good story but rather for my own benefit. I spend countless hours in front of a computer. [...]

After stealing two pumpkins from the Halloween at the Farm (which was a bust due to inclement weather), Meredith, Axel, and I sliced and diced until we had created two masterpieces and a heaping pile of pumpkin guts. Axel carved a sailboat into his pumpkin and Meredith and I created a smiley emoticon pumpkin. There [...]