IT Milk: archive

Ever since becoming responsible for my own finances, I’ve been subconsciously utilizing a variation of the following method of mental accounting. This excerpt is from the book Against the Gods, a book about risk analysis and management which we are reading for SRA311.
A professor of finance he knows has a clever strategy to help him [...]

Today’s visit to the Googleplex was unreal. The main campus was above and beyond my expectations, while the culture and environment at Google was just as I had read about on blogs all these years. Google has truly built an incredible company that cannot be replicated at its current scale. So would I want to [...]

We started off the day in San Francisco at 8am by sightseeing at the Golden Gate Bridge. We walked the length of the Bridge at the suggestion of Dr. Jim Jansen.

Our next stop was the office of Twitter, which we were all extremely excited about. Dr. Jansen hooked us up with this visit through his [...]

It’s 8 in the morning and I have about 10 minutes to write this so excuse any errors. We arrived at San Francisco airport yesterday at 5pm without any problems. We met briefly with Rob Shedd of the Lion Launchpad during our layover in Philadelphia which was an interesting surprise. He was on his way [...]

We were assigned an article titled Food as a Weapon for critical review in Professor McGill’s SRA 311 class. A summary is provided below. As I was reading through this article I couldn’t help but notice that this is sensitive information that could be directly utilized as a handbook for terrorists.
If shock value was [...]

Here’s another interview with a young and successful internet marketer Joshua Kopac. Joshua is just 16 years old and is a junior in high school. I decided to post this because my previous interview with Harrison Gevirtz has been wildly popular and offered inspiration for other young entrepreneurs in high school or college. Let Joshua [...]

Dear Penn State Student:
Welcome to the start of Fall Semester 2008.
As a student at Penn State you have many resources to help protect your privacy,
your personal computer, and your good standing as a student at the University.
You will want to be sure that you have installed anti-virus and anti-spyware
software to protect your computer. Both are [...]

I’m truly astonished by some of the video games that are popular nowadays. In particular, I stumbled across a flash game called Pandemic II last night. I haven’t played any online games since I entered college, so I was startled by how advanced flash games have become. This may be old news for you, but [...]

My Google Online Marketing Challenge teammates Caroline, Matt and Joe got me this wacom tablet for my recent birthday. Their gift just came in the mail so I’ve been playing around with it for the past half hour.

I’ve never owned a tablet before. I’ve wanted one really bad since junior high but never could justify [...]