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The Story of the Prodigal Watch

I have a watch I love. It’s a Casio Telememo databank. I talk a lot about it over at the scrambled mind, if you want to know why it’s so sweet. Anyway, about 6 months ago, it disappeared!

Christmas 2011

(Download the PDF format of this letter, complete with pics, by clicking here) Merry Christmas Everyone! Another busy year – but when does anyone ever have a year that isn’t?? The girls are growing like crazy & we are excited to announce another little one will be joining our family at the end of April [...]

Bluehost Sadness

Bluehost’s servers decided to take a dive, and they lost my entire website. I had backups of the databases, but a ton of information is gone. Bear with me as I slowly re-build this site…

A nod to the spammers

I was digging through the comment archives on here. 99% of them are SPAM and caught by one of my filters, but I noticed quite a few that were seemingly innocuous… and didn’t even have any links on them. It made for some good reading! I’m really impressed with your writing skills and also with [...]

What is ‘Scrambled’ ?

The Scrambled Mind of Benjamin Flessner is an intentionally non-flashy website that is essentially a giant ‘About Me’ page.  I made its first incarnation shortly after creating DigiMuzik.com in the late 90′s.  I like the very simplistic nature of raw HTML, and since I consider myself more of a web ‘programmer’ than a web ‘designer,’ [...]

Not just a phone

When is a phone not just a phone? Even my previous ‘dumb phones’ could play my audiobooks and let me check out google/facebook (albeit with a bit of a hassle), but a smart-phone can carry your whole music library, access any website you need, be a portable gaming system/camera/watch/calendar/mailbox, and loads of other things all [...]

HTC Desire rooted and modded = AWESOME!

I took the plunge and rooted and modded my phone. I guess my warranty is void (until someone releases US Cellular’s RUU files), but if nothing’s gone wrong in two months, I’m probably good. I still haven’t figured out all the things I can do with this, but so far, it feels like I have [...]

How many phone numbers are too many?

So I recently revealed I have over 10 e-mail addresses I check regularly. Did you know we (the family) have 5 phone numbers as well? Actually, there are 8 ways to reach us via phone, but three don’t really count (okay, most don’t really count). Amanda’s Cell – Pretty obvious. If you know us or [...]