I LOST MY BEARD!!!
Monday, August 28, 2006
I let my girlfriend help me shave 2day and she decided on a whim to shave my goatee and now not only is my face mad itchy I look like I'm 12. It's great, I haven't been like this since I was a waiter in London. Ugh I'm tired from the workout 2day. I ran 15 400's at the track, 71-72 avg each repeat with 90 sec rest in between, and I got another 7:30am practice 2morrow, great news isn't it.
Alright enough for now, time for some Mario Kart on Xbox, ciao
-Steve
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iSynergy, high quality professional web design
If you've looked at my old website you'll see that high quality web design is not a talent of mine. But if you're looking for high quality professional web design I'd have to recommend the guys at iSynergy. They offer cutting edge E-Commerce and E-Marketing services and development. Some samples of their sites are http://www.archelan.com and http://www.burnwater.com. Pretty nice sites if you ask me. For more information on iSynergy Web Design or their professional high quality web design and web development services, please visit www.iSynergyWebdesign.com
Thanks
-Steven
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I miss my personal comp :(
I've been stuck using public computers, library comps and my teammate comps and it sucks :( Yea I ran 11 miles last night and ran another 4 this morning along with abs and I still got practice 2night. Pretty long week, ran 45 miles, longest by far in a while. IT's good for me tho, will get me in some serious shape for the rest of the season. Yesterday went around the city checking things out, pretty cool stuff, yea it sucks being in preseason, everything's in limbo, all I have right now is track and my job, rest is like on pause for now. Bleh enough blabbing on for now until I find something more constructive to talk about.
-Steve
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Newsland, free news reader on smartphones
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Newsland is a free news reader for WindowsMobile 2003/5 smartphones and PDA that downloads news and topics when sync'ed to a PC so that you can read it on the go without internet access. Pretty sweet if you wanna catch up on your news when you're stuck on the subway or etc. It's worked fine with my friends Motorola MPX220 and the install/setup was a breeze. You just select what topics you want to read about the the newsland software will sync it automatically to your phone. The software can be found at download.com and many other mobile download sites. I reviewed it on download.com under username sirsniper as well just to promote it. Check it out at Newsland
-Steve
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Most addicting game?
What's the most addicting game you've ever played? Tetris? soduku? Diablo 2? what's the game you can play non-stop? I got Diablo 2 again, a nearly 8 year old game, and i'm still loving it. I played it in high school and couldn't get enough of it. Now I got it again and with some friends i'm back into it. What's your personal fav? Discuss in comments
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Payperpost, the way to promote your product
Payperpost is a new way for advertisers to get word out on their products and create positive buzz on the internet for their products. Bloggers can review and post influencial testiominals and buzz that can be looked at by thousands of people for cheaper prices than posting advertisements on adwords. As well, it's a way for bloggers to get some extra cash for doing what they would be doing anyways. I enjoy working with payperpost as it helps me get some paypal and it makes me enjoy blogging more. I recommend anyone with a blog to participate and work with payperpost, it's a win win for everyone involved. For more info please visit http://www.payperpost.com.
-Steve
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Rainy Saturday morning
Yep, it's rainy here in NYC. Coach cancelled morning prac so it was good cuz I got in at 1:30 from the Tavern. Pretty fun stuff, lol. Today I'm prolly going to chill with Ko, play some DOD, and maybe go out at night. Very interesting day isn't it? Yea i'll fill you guys more later on stuff.
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Build a house for kim!
Friday, August 25, 2006
Houseforkim.com is a pretty funny site where people buy pixels to help finance Kim's purchase of a house. IT's like a cross between oneredpaperclip (the Montreal guy who traded his way up from one red paperclip all the way to owning a house in Saskatchewan) to the guy who made the first pixel ownership page in milliondollarhompage.com (or something like that). She's got a pretty funny blog too if you want to read that. Anyways help buy Pixel Property for Sale in Kim's House and get her a home!
-Steven
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Wow, I'm impressed by Trailfire
I just got an email yesterday from one of the guys from Trailfire. Seems they really care about their users and what they think of the product. I did the review for them but hadn't had time to really do some trails and the guy from trailfire wondered about it and checked up to see my experience with it. I'm pretty impressed with it and by him and his comments. I'm going to make more trails when I get back to my computer at home, especially seeing how you guys care about your product. I really guess that's the power of blogging.
Anyways for my mundane stuff for today all I've really done was run at 7:30am, work at the library, run hills at 3pm, go shopping at pathmark and generally chill around. Not the greatest friday ever but I have a 90 minute run 2morrow morning at 8am so i'm kinda stuck around liu. All I have is my TV and Dan's gamecube, haven't messed around with it yet but i might just get that bored 2night, lol.
Yep that's enough outta me 2night, might do another payperpost blog and take it easy. Ciao
-Steve
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New free ipod site, no catches required
Thursday, August 24, 2006
I've found a site that actually gives away a free ipod every day, for free. No advertiser's offers that need to be completed, no spam mailings, etc. If you want you can do the regular offers for an ipod through a reward site but to qualify for a free ipod all you need is to request some information or print out some coupons. Seems like a sweet deal. If you're looking for a nice free way to get something to download some music mp3's take a look here at http://www.iPodSweepstakes.com/default.aspx?offer=blogspot2. Thanks!
-Steve
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Yep another ride with coach, another wrong turn.
Yea as usual with the LIU track team, we got lost again. This time somehow we got lost IN NYC WHEN WE LIVE IN NYC. Can't blame her just one wrong turn but it always happens, lol. Yea we ran 6.5 miles at Van Courtland today, nice and easy, and we didn't have morning prac so it was nice. Yea I'm on a public comp in front of the library so i'll write more 2morrow morning.
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Move over blackberry, emoze 1.1 is here, world's first free push email system.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Emoze personal edition 1.1 is here to offer Microsoft PocketPC smartphones the ability to have that "push" email service that so far only blackberry users have had the luxury of having. It sends your work, home, PIM or personal organizer data such as calenders, contacts and daily scheduling, through their servers to your phone once it is received, you don't even have to click or anything to get the mail. The service is proactive, so it doesn't wait for you to go online to check, which means less time wasted waiting for that important email, it's automatically sent to you. It gets better since the software is enable through emoze's easy to configer web site which takes you through all the steps. If you've used a traditional mail program such as Outlook you'll easily be able to configure emoze as it's similar and simple like that. Wait there's more good news. Best of all, this software is free for personal use, that's right free. As of right now emoze personal edition 1.1 supports microsoft pocketpc smartphones out of the box but support is coming soon withing the next few weeks for the vast majority of smartphones and the Symbian OS smartphones such as the 6680/6682, Nokia N-series, etc. All you need for this push email service is the emoze software off the emoze.com website, a few configuration screens, and you're good to go. For the benefit and the price, anyone with a smartphone should do this, especially the one who are attached to their emails 24/7. It's a great way to keep in touch and keep yourself in the thick of things without having to do the work yourself. Also great for those who've had a Blackberry before and miss the key feature that it had, now it's availible for most smartphones as well. Why not try it out, it's free after all.
For more info on emoze, check our their homepage at www.emoze.com.
-Steve
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Ugh morning practice
Yep, got up at 6:15am to leave at 6:35am to get to liu at 7:30, ugh,I won't be doing that too much more I tell you. We ran like 4 miles, nice and easy, and did abs, so i'm good, just tired. I don't like the dorms cuz there's honestly nothing to do during preseason, i might as well go home, play diablo 2 or chill on the internet and spend my time more wisely. Also there's a little bit of progress on the new dorms, they're receiving furniture as we speak, however the walls and things aren't done, that's not going to be good for a September 3rd move-in. Oh well someone will take care of me, for now I'll just enjoy the meal money, lol. I ran 9:20 in the 3k at the time trial, that's 17 sec faster than last year and it felt a lot easier, means I'm in decent shape and i'm healthy, 2 positive things. Yep at the library right now, I fixed the printer so ppl are happy here lol. Going to move my stuff later from Kel's room before Single Loops at Prospect Park. Alright enough boring details on my day, I'll talk some abstract things later.
Steven
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Alternative Student Loans
Monday, August 21, 2006
Being a college student I've seen many cases where people need cash or loans for school. A site that specializes in alternative student loans that I've found to be helpful in finding them and getting them is alternativestudentloan.com. They have private student loans, alternative student loans, for K-12, undergrads, graduate's, etc. They give pretty good info on the loans and have competitive rates with repayment and interest. They have 24/7 customer support and pretty fast application process and payment schedules, 5 days is quicker than most of the loans at my school. I think it's a great way for someone looking for other methods to pay for their college or education in general. Anyone interested should look here, forPrivate Student Loans from AlternativeStudentLoan.com.
-Steven
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And so it begins...
Yep, it's that time again, cross-country season, my 5th at liu, well I redshirted one due to injury but now it's time to hit them trails. Did my physicals today, and tomorrow we got the time trial. Geraldo been talking some ish, let's see if he can back it up, since I'm the only miler/3k runner there I should be able to take him, but he's in better shape, so it'll be fun. Yea today just chilled around, worked at the library, and did some track stuff, pretty normal day. More on some random thoughts later.
-Steven
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Trailfire, taking the Digg concept to the personal level
Sunday, August 20, 2006
There's been a rash of new Web 2.0 websites coming up, such as Digg and Netscape are a few popular names with the social networking, but I've been using and admiring this new site called Trailfire, which allows you create your own Digg or netscape with your own trail of posts or URL's that you like with comments on them and etc. All you need to do is signup and download a plugin for IE/Firefox, no Opera support yet, but once you set it up it's a small toolbar with 2 icons, one to click on sites and another for managing your trailfire account. In your trailfire account you can manage your profile, see what you're marked for trails, see your subscriptions, so that you can subscribe to other people's trails and see what they've been looking at. So if you find someone interesting you can just simply follow them all from one page. The site is pretty helpful in itself, showing you easily how to do everything I've said up there, and has a guided tour for those like to see all the features explained in detail. The explore feature is cool, you search for a keyword and see all the trails that are related to that subject, kind of like a database. Or you can view most active users and see what they're all about. This site is all about being social and generating user content, meaning you have to post trails in order for it to be a hit, and so far, it seems like they're on the right track. If you're looking to show people what you like on the web visit Trailfire here and make your own trails!
My username on this is DaSnipe, subscribe me if you're looking for random interesting stuff :)
-Steve
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Back in NYC
Yea I know my updates have been sporatic, but a lot has gone on in my personal life. Btw you guys like the new layout? I think it's more professional than the other blue one but I need to do some changes to the html around the corners and need to add my favorite links and all that crap. I spent the weekend with my parents, left Montreal friday, took us 9 hours due to the Mets game taking over the Triborough and GCP which crippled Queens, lol, and then spent Saturday doing the tour of Manhattan. Took them to the Time Warner building, brought them to Godiva, the Samsung Experience, Whole Foods, then took them to SOHO for a bit, then to Union Square, then to TJ Maxx/Filene's Basement, then to Rockefeller where I showed them Sak's, and the Today show set, and the Nintendo store, which I had never been into, wasn't too impressed but I'm a bit older now. Today I just took them to eat at IHOP and then brought them to my house to see Ko's parents. Anyways preseason starts tomorrow, with physicals, compliance and gear, so it should be nice, then I might move into the dorms sometime this week. Ugh it's getting late and I got a long run tonight. I'll add more tomorrow, but till then ciao!
-Steve
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Test Run, a test case management program
An opportunity came up to review this software called Test Run, which manages test c ases and trials, and it seemed interesting from my background of designing webpages, not much software, so I decided to give it a run. It's a program that helps manage trial runs by giving the stats on each individual case and/or specific criteria, such as eg. the basket part of the application wasn't working as intented. I installed it on my webserver, only needs apache, php and php json to install and it was quick and painless once those were in place. After that I made a project and ran it through the various phases and overall I liked it, if I had a large group of people managing the development I'd surely need it. You can assign tasks to specific members, give them specific tasks to fulfill and see the success rate/history of the project or task, and get email notifications or generate reports to show the progress being done. Price seems about right too, for about 300$ a year max ownership cost, which is quite less than some subscription rates for other software companies, cough Microsoft. Overall if you're a software QA manager or a project leader I'd recommend this software, at least to give it a whirl, it's free for single installs, so no harm done. Interested people can view the software here, at http://testrun.majordojo.com.
-Steve
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Last day home
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Man it's nice being on a mini-vacation. No work, no worries, just getting things done around the house and helping out is nice. I helped my dad/mom fix the pantry, did some laundry, did the dishes, fixing my brother's comp and lastly I'm going to try to vacuum. I also fixed the home phone and the DSL, so things are good. Yea just been chilling with Chris lately, nothing high key, just bumming around, playing video games, being young, lol.
Tons of things to do today, ugh it's going to be a long day before I leave tomorrow. I'll write more tonight if I get off my butt, but for now that's the plans.
Lates
-Steve
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TAKE BACK THE CAPITOL!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
I was looking around youtube and I came across this cool open source video project devoted to taking control of congress in November 2006. You can submit a homemade video and win prizes of 500, 250, etc and even just get 20$ for appearing in their final video. Seems like a good project for a good cause, and the videos are short 2. Anyone who's good with a camera should check it out, and TAKE BACK THE CAPITOL! Gotta love that catch phrase.
-Steve
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