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Using tools such as Pingdom and Google PageSpeed Insights I commonly see a message simliar to the following from WordPress powered sites: Remove query stri

This will allow you to quickly and easily select a list of column names from a MySQL table. SELECT distinct column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHE

If you utilize the terminal on a regular daily basis like I do you are bound to run into times when you need to get a count of how many files exist in a di

Last weekend I pulled my 1965 VW Bus out of storage and cleaned her up to get rolling for some springtime and summer fun!

Finally found the USB extension and I am now able to have dual monitors at coffee shops! Today I tested this out at Drip City coffee and other that drainin

Circa one year ago today my sister, RaeAnn, and I boarded an airplane to fly nearly 20 hours and halfway around the planet to visit a people we did not kno

The email subscription on Ben Lobaugh Online is being updated to provide a more robust and enhanced set of features. As part of this update I am asking you

There is a lot of talk these days about tapping into the resources available through external APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc). Much of the functional

While roaming through some photos from back in the day I stumbled across a photo taken of my desk when I worked at Microsoft circa 2011. It is amazing to s

Zippey is from 1977 and she is starting to feel her age. The deck has a growing spiderweb of cracks that need filling. I believe I located a boatyard where

Here are some photos from the 2015 Seattle Boat Show. I have a bit of a fetish for lamps and I found these on one of the newer boat and really liked them.