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This weekend I graduated (”got out” in GT lingo) from Georgia Tech, bearing the honors distinction no less. I have been looking forward to writing this single blog post for years. Ever since I started my Georgia Tech journey some 4.5 years ago, I knew it was going to be a Sisyphean challenge. I remember logging into the class scheduler my freshman year and having it automatically assume that it would take me 5 years to graduate. [click to continue…]

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Around this time last year, I wrote a lengthy post detailing items that incoming college students would need to get settled into their new environment. That article ended up becoming one of the most popular posts I’ve ever published and garnered lots of link love. So when several readers suggested via Skribit that I post a follow up article, [click to continue…]

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Vacation Notice

May 1, 2008 · 13 comments

I just wrapped up my final exams for this semester on Wednesday and will soon be boarding a flight to San Francisco for a week of vacation filled with visiting friends and exploring California again among other things. I will probably have some downtime to write here but if not I thought I would put this up. [click to continue…]

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Final exams are around the corner and I can’t help but think how useful Google Docs has been for me this year. They may not have implemented the print layout view (although it is surely nearby) I have been longing for, but Google has completely turned Docs around since their acquisition of Writely in March 2006. [click to continue…]

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One of the all-nighters I have pulled for school work in the last week has been for the last computer science course I need to take at Georgia Tech. It’s called Design of Online Communities and while essentially a slightly toned down version of a graduate course and the most reading-intense computer science course offered here, it is also among the more interesting. [click to continue…]

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Success Beyond the Campus

March 30, 2008

That’s the name of the award I will be honored with by Georgia Tech later this month. But now that my stay at college is winding down, what will I really do beyond the campus? Contrary to popular belief, as referenced by the increasing number of emails from recruiters/head hunters I have been

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Review: Zimbra Webmail

February 23, 2008

Last September Yahoo! announced they had acquired Zimbra, a leader in email and collaboration software focused towards businesses, ISPs and universities. It was with that same announcement that Yahoo! said Georgia Tech would be one of the first universities to adopt Zimbra’s webmail application. Georgia Tech’s

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What’s in my bag?

January 23, 2008

After reading a quick meme post on Kevin Lim’s blog, I thought I would take a break from coding to join in on the fun and briefly show you what I take to classes everyday. Compared to Kevin, I keep things light (albeit not too light with the MBP) with primarily just my laptop and [...]

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Finals Week: Fall 2007 Edition

December 11, 2007

It’s that time of year again. I will be locked away in my room studying for several finals and completing various class projects as this semester comes to an end. Naturally, it will be a little stagnant here for a while. Good luck to the students out there also coping with finals.

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Privacy Implications of RFID Tags

November 16, 2007

Two weeks ago I mentioned I was writing a term paper on privacy issues that exist with the growing use of Radio Frequency Identification systems and tags. I ended up receiving an A on the paper so I figured I would share it with everyone. It explores both sides of the RFID issue – convenience [...]

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In The Pipeline

November 3, 2007

Just a 411 – this weekend, the upcoming week and next weekend will be rather hectic for me as I write my term paper on RFID tag privacy, prepare a presentation on it, code a prototype for a redesign of a student portal for HCI class, complete other computer science homework and if I’m still [...]

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A Vision of Students Today

October 17, 2007

Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University well-known for his digital ethnography studies, has put together an excellent video delving into technology and the state of education today. Prof Wesch is known for these types of videos and in my opinion he first broke out with his video The Machine is Us/ing Us that [...]

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I’m a Blogging Scholarship Finalist

October 8, 2007

I hate to solicit things on this blog but I’ve been selected as a top 20 finalist for the $10k blogging scholarship I wrote about a while ago. If you’ve got the time to spare, I’d really appreciate your vote. Compared to last year where there were only 10 finalists, there seems to be considerably [...]

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Georgia Tech Loves Halo 3

September 26, 2007

I have been trying to ignore the Halo 3 coverage everywhere online as I don’t have an Xbox 360 and the hype has started to make me want one (even though my bank account is at -$44.63). But this type of stuff is hard to ignore when you go to a tech school and campus [...]

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2nd Annual Blogging Scholarship

September 10, 2007

The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation is gearing up to give away another impressive blogging scholarship for eligible college students (U.S. citizen, quality blog, full-time post-secondary education student). This time the check is for a whopping $10,000. I participated in last year’s blogging scholarship and took home a

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