Got an email from alumni relations and am proud to announce that NYU’s Stern School of Business was ranked #5 overall business school and #2 for Finance (behind Sloan MIT again…) from US News and World Report…
Email I got is as follows: (click more to read)
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Well the inner architecture/skeleton for my new website is up. Powered by the new Wordpress version 1.5.2! I orginally started looking at full content management systems (CMS) simlar to the PostNuke that I used to version 6, PHPNuke in version 5. The two top other candidates I looked at were Mambo, and e107. There were benchmarks out there and e107 was phenominal at keeping server loads low, loading very quickly, and had a ton of plugin support. Mambo is similar to e107, but wasn’t as quick, but had a very large user base. However, about 3 days ago, the development team forked. Having to deal with the PHPNuke fork and the PostNuke fork (where I migrated to PostNuke after it was clear it was far superior), I didn’t want to dump my eggs in a forking project just to have to go through the headache of migrating everything when a clear winner emerged as the best.
After talking with Rahat a bit, he asked my whats the deal with going with a huge CMS over Wordpress. My response was it didn’t have the features I wanted. After doing some more research though, I found that their plugins for wordpress development was actually quite active and in some instances had further development in some projects than the other CMS’s out there. Also I wouldn’t have to migrate posts once I move everything to wordpress since it can permalink and is extensible through XML/RSS, and thus can easily migrate to a new engine by feeding it. So here it is. I’ll add more later like my past posts, photo gallery, and a new about me section. More to come soon!
Today was the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) NY Region’s Test & Tune autocross, and I went with my RSX. Now with new endlinks and a bigger rear sway, my car was ready for tight turning (on top of the other handling upgrades she has). My car isn’t fast, but she can turn.
I did 20+ runs (stopped counting), but that’s because I took a lot of brake as my tires got way to hot and could barely turn anymore. During that time I rode in a 205 hp vette, Lotus Elise, 4 Evo’s, 3 STi’s, among others. Definitely worth using a vacation day for! I was running time at 56 seconds, and shaved it down to 51.3 seconds by the end of the day. Evo’s/STi’s ran 44 seconds, the Elise did 42 seconds, and the vette 41 seconds. I do have have to say the STi’s LSD’s and differentials are a lot smoother than the Evo 8/MR’s. Riding in Kevin’s evo is insane.
However, the highlight riding in the Lotus Elise, that cornered so hard, the gforces slammed my helment side to side like a coin in a soda can. The vette though was soooo smoothe though, yet it was scary fast with dorrrriiiiffftuu! I have a new fond respect for vettes now.
My RSX is well balanced now after the rear sway upgrade. Neutral, and I know how to swing the rear around when I need it. (had to learn a few times where the break point was, so I spun out a few times). A few of the instructors on site told me my driving is smooth, but I’m getting owned in the slalom since I attack it too late (and lose a good 2 seconds on the course since there were 3 sets of them). More to work on! 7 seconds behind cars with double the horsepower, not bad.
More pics in the Gallery.
Found out today that the suicide bombing in Haditha, Iraq on August 3rd, that killed 14 Marines, had killed one of my own car club members.
SGT Justin Hoffman (Harbinger) KIA from Lima Company, the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines of Columbus, Ohio. To the ClubRSX Family, he was known as Harbinger, a hard core American who expressed his values openly in the Bully Pulpit section of our forums. You will be greatly missed my friend.
You paid the ultimate price for our freedom. USMC: Semper Fidelis. *Salute* Ooohrah! You will always be remembered for your sacrifice.
News article here: -=LINK=-