IT Milk: archive

I heard that word from somewhere… Like Texan or New Yorker, a resident of Wilkes-Barre is a Wilkes Barbarian.
I finally found the perfect room up in Wilkes-Barre for my internship at Pepperjam Search Marketing. And I start my rent tomorrow, which is exciting since my drive to Penn State Hazleton will be considerably less for […]

As I mentioned, I will be doing my summer internship at Pepperjam in Wilkes-Barre, PA. I snatched a nice internship, but I didn’t figure out the housing part of it yet. I start in their Search Marketing department in about 2 weeks (as soon as I complete my final exams).
But since I’m not from the […]

I sent the following email to Dr. Stan Supon, who is the Dean of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. We’ll see how he replies.
Dr. Stan Supon,
What do you think of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars? I recently received 2 bulky letters in my mailbox: one addressed to my […]

I live in a community called Country Club of the Poconos in the Marshalls Creek area. If you don’t know where the Poconos are, this mountainous region is on the border of New Jersey in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I went to high school in the rapidly developing town of Stroudsburg, which is directly east of Marshalls […]

Our presentation on “Dynamically Programming Math Learning Modules & Quizzes For Online Interactivity” was fantastic at tonight’s Undergraduate Research Fair. We didn’t win, but I was satisfied with our powerpoint presentation and delivery.
There were some amazing projects. I was surprised to discover that we had such dedicated and innovative minds at our small campus at […]

Tonight at 6PM at Penn State Hazleton, we will be presenting our “Dynamically Programming Math Learning Modules & Quizzes For Online Interactivity” project. Another student and I (under Professor Alfredo Jimenez) created an application that helps students learn about venn diagrams and sets using Macromedia Flash. Most importantly, we integrated it with a database so […]

Following the East Asian tradition of expert copycat skills, here’s a Korean clone of Twitter and Jaiku called Me2day (www.me2day.net). It’s still in beta development, so a normal user can’t logon.

As you can see on my sidebar, I recently started my own Twitter account.
Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a new popular web 2.0 activity where users are […]

Normalization is one of the most important factors in database design. But the six steps of database normalization can elude many freshman students, which unfortunately includes me. I have consulted with many websites and, most importantly, our textbook (Richard Watson’s Data Management) to tame this stubborn beast.
The formal texts regarding normalization can be confusing and […]

Here’s a nifty little trick to track the location of anyone who has a cell phone. This is using Cingular’s new online tool called the Marital Integrity Tracker (aka Promiscuous Wife Stalker). I only show you how to do this with Cingular, since I’m only familiar with its web account interface. But I’m sure other […]

Here’s an installation guide and review of Ubuntu 6.10 and Zenwalk 4.4.1 Linux distributions on the Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. Linux is a pain in the ass, most of the time, because everything doesn’t work “out of the box.” I find that you spend more time configuring hardware than enjoying the operating system.
The following installation […]