http://blog.rbenson.info My Life in College Mon, 18 May 2009 08:59:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am sorry that I have not had any posts here in months! One reason is that I started a few and I would have a decent amount of content and I would do some of my favorite tricks, refresh. Thus making me loose a decent amount of content. I ... http://blog.rbenson.info/general/may-update.html President Obama's first press conference, courtesy of C-SPAN. Mainly about the economic stimulus package. I am not 100% on his ideas. I believe that while it is good that he is wanting to give money to the people. However, I think that it is important that citizens should begin saving ... http://blog.rbenson.info/politics/pres-obamas-first-press-conference.html I just upgraded Wordpress from 2.6.* to 2.7.1, I am quite discouraged by the admin panel, by the looks of it it looks highly inaccessible. I don't have a screen reader installed on this machine, but I can tell. One way I can tell is the default notification on where you ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/domain-issues/wordpress-271.html My birthday is coming up, it is actually this Saturday. Yes, the 14th. My mom, her boyfriend, and my sister are coming up most likely for lunch or dinner. Mom wants to do something at Pike Place Market, but considering it was snowing a little bit ago, we'll see ... http://blog.rbenson.info/general/my-birthday.html Sunday or Monday I wrote to Facebook saying that the edit link for the "Information Box" directs me to the home page versus getting a popup box or going to some sort of profile edit page. I heard back from user support this afternoon, getting the following as a reply: Hi ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/internet/facebook-support.html I don't really know what they are called these days, usb drives, flash drives, usb keys, pen drives. I don't know if many still use them. Anyhow the first usb drive I ever bought has bit the dust. It was a whopping 8mb purchased mid 2002 with my laptop I ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/usb-death.html I just updated my Twitter account, and saw that it was hacked via a TechCrunch tweet. I replied to the post, and I said the following. Sorry but this made me laugh to be honest… Yeah it sucks that they got hacked. But seriously who cares who got hacked, what is ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/twitter-got-hacked.html Yesterday, Monday, I had the first of two finals for this quarter. Due to how busy I am this quarter, I didn't get to touch the study guide till Thursday/Friday. I was quite stressed to say the least. However I had a good group of guys to study with on ... http://blog.rbenson.info/school/poli-sci/end-of-autumn-08.html I just did quick search, and saw all these extra icons. After finishing my search, I went to the Google Blog to see what was all this stuff. It turns out that all that extra stuff is Google's new feature called SearchWiki. SearchWiki allows users to put certain items at ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/computer/google-searchwiki.html Dear Americans, I come to you not as a McCain supporter, or Obama supporter, but as an individual who put facts together. This will be quite harsh of an entry, and will seem like I am a disgruntled McCain supporter. I am whole-heartily not. I already had a person I ... http://blog.rbenson.info/politics/sad-for-americans.html