My name is Eugene Gordin, and I am currently a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Engineering and Project Management (and Structural Engineering) under the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. I did my Masters (in Engineering and Project Management) as well as my undergraduate work (in Structural Engineering) at Berkeley too. My resume can be found here.
What is a civil engineer doing having a site like this? Well, in addition to being a CE student, I also run a small Webhosting/IT Services company called Genatech Solutions, providing webhosting to both corporate and personal clients and offering complete IT support for most computer systems and networks. I would offer a link to my company’s website, but, ironically enough, it has not been updated in quite a while since I decided that actually providing hosting and tech support was more important than showing people that I do those things. One day however, it’ll be updated.
When I’m not doing engineering things, you will most likely find me behind either my Macbook Pro or my iPhone, whichever is closer and sometimes both at the same time. That’s a lot of the reasons behind this site, since it allows me to share with those around me the interesting things I find while aimlessly wandering the web.
This site began when I decided to start this blog in the summer of 2006, after realizing that there has to be some good that comes out of the massive amount of time I waste spend on the internet purely reading about interesting technologies, programs, operating systems, hardware, and anything else you could imagine. Since I often shared my findings with my friends and family, I thought that I would share my “interesting finds”with others too in blog form.
This intention continues today with the Technology blog. The goal of the tech blog is to share with others the cool things about computers that seem complex, but can actually be quite helpful and straight-forward. Therefore, I try to write my posts as simple as possible, in everyday terms.
The Journal section serves as my medium for expression of all things, not just technology related. I guess you could say the same for my Photography section, which is my little experiment in perseverance: the idea is that since I always have my iPhone with me, I therefore always have a camera at my side. So I decided to take advantage of this, and take (at least) one photo every day and post it on my site. The photos aren’t related in any way, except for the fact that they are all taken with my iPhone.
That said, enjoy the site, and if you have any questions, visit the contact page and let me know.