News, Projects and This Site...
Well the Big news I suppose is that the site is now up.  At least a good 90% of it is, and I'll continue to work on it throughout the month.

This site was built using the following technologies: 

Microsoft Expression Web / Expression Blend
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (ASP.NET, MVC)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Adobe CS5 PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Flash, After Effects
Axialis IconWorkshop
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
Projects:
www.rjakobson.com
This site is primarilly a small show case of different design, development and process tools created to demonstrate my tricks.  From icons to website interface to the background code, database was put together to display different basic skills.  It will continue to evolve as I come up with new concepts to play with and demonstrate.


Job Hunt Tool
This is kind of a quirky app.  I use it to track recruiting jobs and have posted a couple things on it in a blog, and it's becoming very popular with people.  It's actually the main interface for my recruiter database - but is a part of my Outlook Email screen.  It's an addon I created that reads incoming emails, pulls in pertinent job hunting information, updates the database that recruiters can access (On this website).

Swiss Army Brat
 Restoration of a 1979 Subaru Brat.  Progress is going well.  The name comes from the intended Swiss Army knife color of the paint.