The first day really took me by surprise when exiting the airport in Port Au Prince, children gathered around me as we boarded the car and begged for money, I never thought Id witness that but it seemed to happen a lot thought the days everywhere I went.

I even tried to give an old lady a 32gb USB drive but the Haitians that were with me were like NOOO, I was like why? Its worth a lot of money in the US, they responded, she wont even know what to do with it, it is worthless to her.

I will continue to update as I can, these mosquitoes are eating me alive, check out my uploaded pics on facebook.

I was really considering moving to AT&T and getting the iPhone, I owned a iPod Touch a few months back and loved it, but it too wasn’t as open as I thought, Apple has it’s own limitations on what you can and cannot do. The only other option in my mind was to either go Blackberry or go Android. I liked the Blackberry a lot, it’s old interface threw me away but it seems to function quite well and the phones looked pretty decent, so why change something that works right? On the other hand, I got suckered into the Droid which runs the Google Android OS. Android is truly open source at heart and right now, development is a little behind Apple in terms of the development community and they number of apps but I’m sure as adopters increase, people will pay more attention to it.

I renewed my 2 year contract with Verizon and got a Droid, I like it a lot. I do have a few things to complain about but I’ve found ways around it so I’ll deal but I see Android growing in popularity in months to come. Who knows, maybe it will kill the iPhone one day.

UPDATE: March 25th, I returned to Verizon and did an exchange because of a defective micrphone on the Droid, they were really good about it. It also looked like they replaced it with a more current revision of the Droid.

Rise Again Haiti

Co-founded and designed/developed Rise Again Haiti’s new organization website. Built in 2 days.

Rise Again Haiti’s mission is to restore Haiti after the first waves of relief efforts.

“Rise Again Haiti” is a movement committed to the restoration of Haiti. It is a non-profit organization that is raising funds to sponsor volunteers who will contribute to the efforts of rebuilding the country. Our Vision is to send over 20,000 people there, starting June of this year and our mission is to create task teams that will commit to reaching our goal.

We are in the process of acquiring a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Organization so that we can move as an entity of force!

However there’s a way to do it all completely for FREE, except for what Google charges. No monthly fees and no minimums!

Here’s how! You will need two accounts, one Google Checkout Account where you will register yourself as a merchant, you will need a legitimate business with a EIN number from the bank. Then you will need a second account to act like a purchase account. You will use the purchase account as the buyer, with each transaction, you will enter a new credit card number (obtained from your clients) and simply charge it as if a buyer was purchasing from your store.

You may use Google Checkout’s link maker to create Quick BUY NOW links with preset prices so you can easily charge your customers and put them up on a web page somewhere.

Now you will be able to process and charge your clients credit cards manually, for free, no strings attached!

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Update!!!
They did a review on my account after 4 weeks and decided to tack on $3000+ dollars to my 6 month premium! Hell to the NO! I’m no longer a Brooklyn resident, now I have to send in multiple documents to prove that I infact do live on Long Island.

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!

My main business is web technologies, I can say that I know almost everything there is to know or at least familiar with every internet technology and how to use them to make money. My parents purchase my first computer in 1999, it was a Compaq Presario with AMD k2 355Mhz processor with 64MB of SDRAM and 5 GB’s of disk space. Quite slow compared to todays standards. When I got it, I was the happiest kid on the block, not only did I have a state of the art computer at the time but more importantly, I could visit POKEMON.COM. Like every kid in the late 90’s, I was addicted to Pokemon. I would visit pokemon from the library across the street at a public library but for the first time, I could do it in the comfort of my own home without a line and without a time limit before they kicked me off for going over the 30 minutes.

It’s hard to believe from those who know me personally but I had trouble connecting to the internet at first. I was using Metconnect, a free 56k ISP here in NYC. In the back of the computer, before the good days of Rj-45 ethernet port, I was faced with 2 RJ-11 telephone jacks. I thought for a long time that the only way to get on the net was to have them both plugged into the wall. My apartment only had one jack which was being used by the home phone. So I was denied of the internet because I did not know that you only needed 1 line connected to the wall jack.

Onto how I actually learned so much about computers, I abused the crap out of Compaq Technical Support, AOL and other computer companies. I called them for everything I could think of, I would ask a question and they would answer it, that was the way I learned everything. I even made up fake problems so they could teach me the ins and outs of a computer through trying to troubleshoot a problem that never existed. Web development came to be at around 2001. It was a hobby and I started by trial and error, I would view the source of each website and study it.

It sounds impossible to do but I did it, an interest in a topic you are trying to learn definitely helps! This is my story.