http://blog.rbenson.info My Life in College Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The top story on my feed just now was Tim Russert passing away earlier today. He passed due to a heart attack. I started this post back on June, when Jim had passed. I am not sure what all I was going to say. I am publishing this just for archiving ... http://blog.rbenson.info/politics/tim-russert-58-dies.html The importance of a title is everything these days. When writing posts, I sometimes write the body of the post, then the title. Sometimes I don't know what I want to title it exactly, so I leave it blank. No biggie, right? Well if you are using the WordPress.com Stats Plugin, ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/domain-issues/automatic-saving-and-post-titles.html A special needs kindergarten student in Florida was voted out of the classroom by his peers. The vote was initiated by the teacher according to the mother in the video. The Coral and Opal blog made a post on this as well, the author points out that Ms. Portillo, Alex's teacher, ... http://blog.rbenson.info/news/kid-voted-out-of-kindergarten.html The Empire Strikes Barack [techtags:barack,obama,parody,star wars] http://blog.rbenson.info/politics/the-empire-strikes-barack.html The past few weeks have been hectic for me. I had some personal issues come up that I had to deal with, so its been quite the emotional roller coaster. It will always kill me how one minute things are fine, and the next is gone. I am not sure why ... http://blog.rbenson.info/general/the-past-few-weeks.html I just logged in here not too long ago, and saw that I had new spam comments. Usually I just hit delete all, and go on my way. But I decided to take a quick look to see what lovely things I got spammed with. I saw that the name ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/domain-issues/word-to-the-wise.html I was just given a beta invite to Socialspark, which I am not sure why/how I got an invite. After a bit of looking around, it turns out that Socialspark is just a spin-off of PayPerPost. In fact, Socialspark is made by PayPerPost's parent company, IZEA. It is supposed to provide ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/internet/socialspark.html I have written before about my thoughts about Obama running for President of the United States, and what kind of changes could happen. Many others done this as well, and went on to speculate that if Obama was elected it would mark the end of racism in the United States. I ... http://blog.rbenson.info/politics/first-black-president.html I heard a ton of buzz around the new version of WordPress. One, or rather, the only thing I heard about is the beautiful admin panel. I could not be more dissatisfied with it! Why you ask? While I the layout is nothing special, except for the write a post page, ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/domain-issues/wordpress-25-update.html About a week ago, I found an old comment from a friend of mine. I decided to check her blog out since it had been a while. I noticed that she was getting quite a number of comments per post, and I asked her what she did she do to ... http://blog.rbenson.info/tech/internet/entrecard.html