Ben's Domain

Latest News

July 14, 2008

Hello everybody. We're back up. You may or may not know that this site was recently hacked. I am still trying to find out "why." When I do, I will be sure to make all necessary precautions to prevent something like this happening again.
Thank you,
Ben
P.S. I updated Ben's Hiking Resume, finally. Check out "Been to" to check out the trails from Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas area.

July 3, 2008

Two new films- The Breast of Caesar's Palace and Life's Good- So Demolish It!

June 29, 2008

Everything's up!
The new photography section, US Southwest 2008, is loaded with photos I took from my recent trip out west: Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Red Rock Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Mt. Charleston. Go find out what you're missing.

June 5, 2008

Edited the Links page a bit. Check it.

June 4, 2008

Yay, the first update since moving over to GeekStorage.
Check out my new photo essay- The 47 United States of America

June 2, 2008

The Free Account Migration was a success. My parked domain didn't move over, but my cPanel account's main domain is bens-domain.com (I don't know how that happened). Anyways, I realized all this after I changed my nameservers to point to GeekStorage. Success! You can now see this site by typing in bens-domain.com!

June 1, 2008

I finally did it! I took the plunge and ordered a hosting account from GeekStorage.com
Free hosting just isn't for me, I guess. My hosting account is cheap ($25 a year) but doesn't sacrifice anything. It's plenty enough for me.
I'm gonna get a Free Account Migration- moving of cPanel files- so I need to change my nameservers to those of GeekStorage. So if you need to visit my site, whatever reason you have, in these next few days, use bensdomain.x10hosting.com. Thanks!

May 11, 2008

I finally figured out how to add a banner- not easy. In the end I just replaced those 'home' and 'contact' buttons with my banner, and it filled up the space! But there's still too much space.
I added an 'A.T. Mileage' section to Ben's Hiking Resume, and I also added a 'Want to' hike. What the hell are you waiting for?

May 1, 2008

You may have noticed a change on font on this page and the navbar. Sorry about that. I was messing with the css file, trying to add a banner to the site, rather than the big title, and this happened. After, I emailed the designer of this template on how to add a banner to it. He said "sorry, it's not supported." What??? Well, it's not featured on his site, but how do you suddenly stop "supporting" a template? Well, I'm gonna try to figure out how to get the banner up here. Wish me luck.
I wrote a new rant- You Can't Hit A Girl! I also moved FM Radio and Rap Music to the Articles/Essays section.

April 17, 2008

Well, I told you I'd upload the panoramas (once I made them).
They're very wide, but that's what you'd expect with a panorama. They also cover up some of the links on the left sidebar, but that's not a problem. Any smaller (320 x 240, for example) and it would look like crap. The true beauty of the scene would be difficult to observe. So I put it at message board size (640 x 480).
Check them out, along with the other Mt. LeConte photos here

April 12, 2008

Pictures from my trip to the Smoky Mountains are up. I've got lots of more pictures, but I'm gonna set up a panorama of them. Which will be done in school. Until then, enjoy the pictures.
Also, the trails I hiked there have been added to Ben's Hiking Resume.
But that's not all! I realized today that not all the photos I took in San Francisco and Yosemite National Park were up on my website, so I uploaded the rest. Ciao.

April 5, 2008

A big day for Ben's Hiking Resume. I did add those photography links, did some organizing, and even figured out the names of the two hikes we did in Yosemite National Park! Yes, I am very aware how awesome I am. LOL.

April 1, 2008

I'm sorry to report that I will no longer update this website. It will stay up, but there will be no more content. Thanks to whoever visited.
For more info, click here.

Anyways I added one "Been to" hike and several "Want to" hikes to Ben's Hiking Resume. Pretty soon I will also add photography links to "Been to" hikes, also. If everything goes to plan, that will be this site's final update.

March 23, 2008

A freaking weekend of updates. Awesome!
The photography I've been promising is up. Check it out.
Ironically, those photos were taken before Brasstown Bald. I guess I really have a thing for mountains.

March 22, 2008

New page. Well, actually it's a sub-site. It's called Ben's Hiking Resume. I've been working on it for a while now. Its purpose is to share my passion of hiking with the world: it lists trails/regions that I have hiked, want to hike, or am going to hike in the near future. Check it out.

March 20, 2008

A phenomenon that hasn't happened in at least a year: Two rants in one month! Check out the newest rant, FM Radio (Thanks to radio, I don't need to spend my money on music).
Also, keep your eyes peeled for some more photography.

March 8, 2008

New photography section up: Brasstown Bald, and some nearby waterfalls

March 2, 2008

I wrote this rant a LONG time ago. I modified it a bit, then published it on here. Doesn't Rap music suck?
Stay tuned, I'm gonna be working on another rant. I'm also editing a video (but damn Windows Movie Maker has been frozen for the past hour or so).
As for the Photoshop Elements section, I decided to scrap the idea. But take a look at this. Can you figure out what two photos were merged?

February 26, 2008

I updated the Links page.
As for major updates, I've got a week off from school next week, so if I don't update within the next month, you have my permission to not trust me.
But trust me, I've got some updates planned. Stay tuned.

Febuary 1, 2008

Hey guys, happy February! Tomorrow's Groundhog day, I hope the chipmunk sees his shadow so we can get more snow! (The snow probably won't come down South, but it's worth a try)
-There has been a glitch in the main navbar on the main index page of this site. I accidentally added an I between the Contact Me and Links link, and it pushed down the links to the Links and Blog pages. I fixed it easily, all's better now.
-In September 2007, my blog did a phone interview with Zac Efron of High School Musical. I finally added it up here, so check it out.
Also, stay tuned for an all-new section on this site. It will contain my crappy experiments with Photoshop Elements.

January 25, 2008

Hey guys! If you check this site frequently, you may have noticed that it's been down for several days. Sorry about that. My host has changed servers, I think. Either way, they have been having a big change.
I hate to say it, but although my site is working now, it may be temporary. The X10Hosting forums said sites hosted by them for free will be down until the 30th of this month. That was probably just a rough estimate, but I can't take anything for granted. However, I hope my site stays up for now on.
As for updates, I've made a new video. I dunno if you consider it a film or a rant, so I'm putting the video in both sections. I've always toyed with the idea of making a video rant, but when I discovered the rant project/channel on Vimeo, I knew I had to make a video rant. My video rant is about Autoflush Toilets. Yes, I'm completely serious. Watch it.

January 5, 2008

Hey guys! The site is finished. I finished it yesterday. Wow, this week has been tough. Okay, every page should work now. Have fun exploring the new Ben's Domain!
If you are wondering why we have a new template, it is because I made the decision to. I just needed a new one, you know? It's simple and cool, and made by my buddy Sean Pollock. Oh yeah, and this is on a new host. I decided I had had enough with Freewebs. I am now hosting Ben's Domain on x10hosting, and so far they are good.

What's up?