It’s hard to belive that 5 years have passed since that terrible day. Please take a moment to view the 9/11 Photo Archives of my experiences.

A view of lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Heights Promonade. After being stuck on a business trip in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I could not get a flight back to new York. Instead of waiting for the airlines to book me on a flight, I drove home. The drive was 1000 miles (1610 Kilometers). The drive started at 0400 and ended the same day at 2300. I drove this distance straight through with only bathroom breaks. I was very tired and I wanted to make it back to my apartment in Brooklyn. Once I got to Brooklyn, I grabbed my camera and ran down to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. There were hundreds and hundreds of people on the promenade. Usually, there are only 50 or so people walking around. You can see the place where the WTC once stood and in its place was this very white smoke lit up by the construction lights. There were many people crying and holding each other. Some had pictures of people they lost or were missing. There were candles everywhere along with pictures and banners from members of the community. This went on for weeks. For some it was a way to cope with the loss and stress of the event. — (Ron Poserina, Sept. 14, 2001)

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Adobe – Came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server -– thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers – Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clock today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…” So at 5 o’clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating Apple that time… so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’.

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Kasey and I are back from our Central Europe vacation to the Czech Republic and Hungary. We visited Prague in the Czech Republic and Budapest in Hungary. We also took a boat ride up the Danube River to a small town called Szentendre.

We had a wonderful time and you should check out our pictures here. Thanks for looking!

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1. Never walk without a document in your hands
People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the cafeteria. People with a newspaper in their hand look like they’re heading for the toilet. Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.

2. Use computers to look busy
Any time you use a computer, it looks like “work” to the casual observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, chat and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work. These aren’t exactly the societal benefits that the proponents of the computer revolution would like to talk about but they’re not bad either. When you get caught by your boss – and you *will* get caught — your best defense is to claim you’re teaching yourself to use new software, thus saving valuable training dollars.

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Project 50 is one man’s quest to see the United States of America. That man is Jim Poserina.Written by Jim Poserina of JimPoz.com:

The Project began on a sunny afternoon in June of 1999 in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. I was walking down Park Street with my best friend Vanya Cohen when, all of a sudden, I turned to him and said, “Hey V, take my picture. I’m going to take a picture of myself in front of all 50 state capitols.” And thus Project 50 was launched.

Successful completion of the Project requires 100 photographs: 50 state capitols, 50 state welcome signs. As of August 2003, I have taken 69: 33 state capitols, 36 state welcome signs.

About Me

I am 27 years old and a 1998 graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in history and political science, and twenty credits short of a B.S. in computer science. I was recently laid off by AT&T where I was a webmaster and lab administrator in Middletown, NJ. I’m a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, and Mensa (not to mention AAA).

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