Hi everyone, sorry its been a while since my last post. Been going through several unfortunate events of bad luck with my car, been to a lot of cool places, achieved things I never thought possible, drama with work, etc. I’ve definitely added many causes of stress to my life. I completed my junior year of college, yay for that, what does next year entail? I’ve been appointed President of TSM or STSM and thats the Society for Technological Systems Management at Stony Brook University. I’m looking forward to creating a new vibe to the organization bringing new minds on to the table. Here’s the first banner I created for recruitment purposes!

I got back from DC not to long ago and previous to that, Pittsburg, all in all a lot of cool things to see outside of NYC. Might want to move there sometime this summer just to be there for a month or so. Lets see, umm got a tint ticket yesterday, end of the month quota BS from the cops. Working to really promote my freelance web design work this summer and make some loot. Alright, gotta help some friends move to their new house tomorrow, good night!

I got home yesterday evening after coming from a long hard day of work, on my way in, my roommate was walking out the door to go see a presentation at Stony Brook Southampton about Ocean Surges in New York. It sounded like an interesting topic and something I would enjoy so I tagged along.

When I got there, Dr. Brian Colle of Stony Brook’s Marine Science Department talked about “Climatology and Modeling of Storm Surges in New York’s Coastal Waters”. Here is a brief synopsis of his lecture.

A large fraction of the New York metropolitan region and Long Island is vulnerable to coastal flooding during tropical and extra-tropical cyclones. This talk will explore our understanding of cyclone position, track and strength, and how that favors flooding in the New York region.

There have also been advances in high resolution atmospheric and storm-surge modeling of land-falling cyclones in our region. A few historic storms will be discussed, such as hurricane Gloria (1985), which will highlight the modern difficulties in forecasting storm surges and the implications for emergency response.

This was something really cool to see, he presented computer models of storm path predictions and storm surge levels. Most of the time, the models we see on TV are great but I never truly understood the significance of every single mark on the models, Dr. Colle explained all of that and more. What was the most interesting to me was that in a Category 1 hurricane, the southern coast of Long Island would be experiencing flooding of a couple of meters of water. That is CRAZY!

It’s technically Tuesday morning here, still up studying for my two coming midterms tomorrow. Tired from study fatigue; I decide to take a little break. I was just browsing around the internet and stumbled upon Stony Brook’s new website!! As a freelance web designer myself, I really appreciate the awesome new look and the ease of acquiring information! Take a look!

By just clicking through the pages, I was able to think like a perspective student and wonder where I might find answers to what I wanted to know, sure enough the information is there and clear! I hope this new site offers less confusion and more APPLICANTS!

Well back to my studying! By the way, I’m available on AIM all the time. Drop me a line!

Finals week was last week and I think I did pretty well. I spent the weekend moving into my new place on Long Island! I found a house for a really sweet deal. I still can’t believe it and the place is fully furnished with plenty of space to run around. The crib is in Selden, LI. Below are some pictures of the new place.

It’s soo sweet! Muhahahaha

Hey all! I just got back from Kentucky yesterday and whoO, that was a great experience. The trip was made possible by the Undergraduate Geology Club here at Stony Brook University. We were on the road for 40 hours this weekend and spent like 12 in the largest cave system in the world, Mammoth Cave. It was an amazing site to see, we all agree that it was the best adventure ever! We also camped out for a night at the national park camp grounds which is directly right on top of the cave system.

What I liked most about it was the extensive history of the caves, discovered somewhere back in the late 1700’s. It was so much fun! I wish I could go again, but I will, probably this summer. The overall experience was unforgettable!

Getting involved with clubs and organizations on campus can open up free perks like this all the time! Yeah, the trip was free! hehe

Welcome to my first podcast! I had some time this afternoon and all the right tools so I decided to run a podcasting trial. I’m sorry that I sound a little tired, it’s because I am, future recordings shouldn’t be that bad. I am going to have to take some caffeine pills or something. I’m new to podcasting and never did one before today but I hope this becomes successful!

So I will do a podcast every week recapping on my posts for the week, I will give a brief summary of each of my posts and add a little that I might have missed. So without further ado, here is my first podcast.

Podcast Episode #1

Podcast Notes
- Podcast Intro Music by Jeremy Goun
- Chat with SB Bloggers & Admissions
- 7PM-9PM EST Wednesday 3rd, October 2007
- Special Thanks to Perry Goldstein & Alan Inkles
- Stony Brook v.s Hofstra Football 28-33 FINAL

Stony Brook is amazing! Not only are we playing our rival school on Long Island, the Seawolves v.s Hofstra football game this Saturday but Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra is also performing at our Staller Center for the Arts. The problem is that I want to go to both events however both events conflict. The football game is an away game so I would have to hop on the bus at our stadium and take a ride to Hofstra at 5PM or I can wait and attend the Wynton Marsalis event at 8PM.

Now both are great events but I think clearly one is more worth it to attend. Wynton Marsalis by far the “once in a lifetime” event to see. For those of you who don’t know who he is, Wynton Marsalis is one of the “most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music”. I have contacted Perry, our director of Undergraduate Music for tickets. I can go to a Stony Brook football game any other time but, Wynton Marsalis to most of us would be a once in a lifetime event.

I’ll take pictures when I get there and post it on my next post! Peace out!

A current project (SBUGuide) I’m currently working on needed an extra boost of inspiration to push deadlines across to our staff. So I decided to create my own start page for the project. I then made all the staff members add that start page as their home pages on their browsers so they would constantly be reminded to do their work. (neat idea by Joey)

This start page consists of three parts which are easy to implement. The first part is inserting your company logo. Users have to know who’s start page they are seeing, it looks more professional and makes the page look a lot nicer.

Second is to including a simple search field so if at anytime, someone wants to use Google or Yahoo to do a search, they can do it right from the start page. It’s essential for any start page to have www search. Also in addition to adding search, it’s good to add other links as well so they are also quickly accessible by your users. Our staff requested Yahoo and Blackboard to be added as links.

The third step, which is exclusive for our project is the calendar by Google. Jobs and deadlines are color coded so our staff can easily organize and know when things are suppose to be done by when . Of course, the calendar is optional for your start page but it is essential to ours.

I will write up a tutorial on how to make your own start page step-by-step.

In the meantime you can check out our hot SBUGuide Start Page!

Let me know what you think.

Many people go to church on Sunday’s, I spent an hour designing my own vCard contact page. Of course that’s not all I did today, that would be ridiculous! I was able to get some of my work done in the library today and came back and had some fun. But let me tell you more about what a vCard is and maybe you’d be interested in making one yourself. Questions can be asked and posted in the comments area.

What is vCard?
Wikipedia defines (so does the rest of the world) it as “vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web. They can contain name, address information, phone numbers, URLs, logos, photographs, and other optional fields.” It’s occasionally used with Microsoft Office.

So, it’s like a rolodex and a vCard is just one entry in someones rolodex. Simple right? Well yeah it is! A lot of people also like to create a simple personal webpage to tell people a little about themselves and their qualifications. Things that would go on these pages may include a résumé or a.k.a curriculum vitae (CV) and a vCard so one can download it and add it to their personal rolodex address book.

There’s two easy parts in this, the first part to is to actually make the vCard and the second part is to make the simple webpage that goes with presenting your vCard.

If you want to create a page like this, download my vCard creator package.