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Almost every summer, we take a journey down the Susquehanna River on suspect rafts and camp on a random island.  Since we do this almost annually, I’ve decided it should have a name.  Islandcamp it is.
I’ve also decided that I should try to chronicle our little adventure this year.  While uploading pictures and videos after [...]

So, it seems we’re in a bit of trouble.
The Mu Chi chapter of Alpha Phi Omega is now, for all intensive purposes, broke.  We were sitting on a hefty sum of money at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, and we’re now in the red.  How did we get this way?  Reckless spending, failure [...]

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Sometimes, we seem to think we know what life is. We try to encompass the vastness of it in inspirational quotes or in posters that we hang on our walls. We tag cute little sayings onto the ends of our emails or include them in our buddy info’s. Life is crazy. [...]

“When the door of happiness closes, another opens. But often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.”
-Unknown

I just started today at Ritter Insurance Marketing doing IT work, and I’ll just come right out and say it - I’m totally flabbergasted.  This company knows how to embrace technology.
They are equipping every employee with dual monitors, realizing that two workspaces ultimately allows work to be done more efficiently.  They are also hooking employees [...]

Well, it’s Mixtape Friday again.  For those of you viewing this post in Facebook, I just noticed that you can’t actually see the tape itself.  Apparently Facebook does not like Flash.  You’ll have to click where it says “View original post” and listen to it on my site.  This might be true for some feed [...]

A few days ago I wrote a post about why I’d rather be here than in Silicon Valley.  While people there are more apt to become early adopters, Central Pennsylvania’s rate of adoption for new technology is much slower.  This basically makes those of us blogging, tweeting and FriendFeeding here the Robert Scobles, Louis Grays [...]

Since Twitter has once again bitten the dust, a lot of discussion has taken place on FriendFeed as to whether or not Twitter is running out of chances. Some believe that FriendFeed will ultimately replace Twitter. Personally, I feel that the two services have two very different aims. I don’t think I [...]