Ben Galaviz

Now that I have had it for a while, I guess I should blog about it. I finally bought a Macbook. It is a 13″ white one. I love it. Probably one of the best things I have bought in a long time. I was actually surprised on how quickly I was able to pick […]

Probably one of the best love/death scenes ever. I thought about it because I was listening to the opera that plays at the end. If you want to know, it is Liebestod from “Tristan and Isolda” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlAmtt37IQ[/youtube]

For fathers day, Crystal and Kylie got me something I would have never of guessed they would get me. I got a wii. Something that is very hard to find right now as most of you may know. It is a blast to play. Crystal and I have been playing Mario Party 8 for the […]

I got a new laptop a while ago. Testing out a new widget that lets me post from dashboard.

Well today is my birthday. I am now 31 years old, and yet , I don’t feel it. Last saturday I got a tattoo. It was a tattoo my brother Zac had on his arm. When he passed, I knew that it was something that I wanted to do to remember him. Now that I […]

If being 30 wasn’t enough to make you start to feel old, I bought my first shares of stock today. For anyone who does not know, I live in Fort Worth. Little did I know that we are sitting on one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields. We have had wells set up all […]

I started getting into microcontroller programming. I found a product called Arduino. I ended up buying it from a website called Adafruit Industries. The development environment is written in Java, but you write code in C and upload via USB to the ATmega168 microcontroller. I also purchased the LAN Module and am working on getting […]

I have not had any time to update this site. I have been really busy the past few months with our ADP implementation at work. I will be glad when it is all over and I can get on with the next chapter in my life at work. I have also wanted to change this […]

This past weekend I went Barnes and Noble to use a gift certificate I have had for a while. I ended up buying “Murach’s Java SE 6” book. I know. A real page turner. Anyways, I was trying to set up my computer to be able to wrote some code and for my “Hello World” […]

Been busy at work. We are moving our HR/Payroll systems over to ADP and have a go live date of 1/1/2008. So all of my time at work has been devoted to supporting this. Looks like I will be going to Jacksonville, FL for some training. I will not be doing the same kind of […]