Brookings – Most/Least Educated Cities in America

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

From the Brookings Institute, here’s an interactive map of  graduate degree attainment, population 25 and over.

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Syracuse University Student Mens Basketball Package

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

Another item crossed off on the checklist. Purchased my tickets for the 2010-2011 Syracuse University Student Mens Basketball season. I’ll be sitting in STUD02, GA7. Can’t wait!

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Viewsonic VT2430 24″ Widescreen LCD HDTV

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Josh Kitlas


I’m not a Luddite. Really. Why did it take me so long to upgrade to HDTV? Probably because I’m not much of a TV person. I got this LCD HDTV for use as a TV and monitor and am loving it so far. Continue reading →

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Hadoop >> Cloudera

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

I’m pretty late to the game on this but I’ve had a lot of fun reading up on Hadoop and Cloudera. As I understand it, Apache Hadoop is a freeware/open-source software package that allows a lot of data-intensive computing systems to play nicely together and analyze large amounts of data. This is a top-level project from Apache who as you probably know supports a ton of software and web-related projects. Cloudera are the commercial Hadoop experts.

What strikes me as most interesting here is that the Hadoop system can bring together so many disparate functions – even during a system failure. Yes, it is self-healing. Interesting. It even does this working side-by-side of existing/legacy systems. Seems very pertinent to the ever growing mountains of data generated daily.

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Notice…Hello Syracuse University!

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Josh Kitlas

I am ESTATIC that I’ll soon be a member of School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (iSchool). However, it’s been a rather very hard past couple months. I’ve been on a yo-yo between Syracuse University’s Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs and Direct Loans, studentloans.gov, the U.S. Department of Education, Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) School Relations Center, etc. trying to finalize a loan so I could go pursue my MLIS at the The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University (iSchool).

It has been quite an arduous and, at times, upsetting experience. Long story short, there were many emails, letters, phone calls and faxes and an ongoing finger pointing exercise between Financial Aid and the various government organizations listed above.

Drove me BONKERS and was hanging over my head for MONTHS. Continue reading →

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