By Christopher Masiello on November 24, 2007
Spare Me 34th Street, Rudolph, and Charlie Brown Please Well, it’s that time again; the holidays. Time for credit card bills, bulimia, annoying relatives, and yes, Christmas movies. Every year, it’s the same old stuff: Miracle on 34th Street, Bing Crosby, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and Charlie Brown’s crappy little tree. Well I’m a [...]
Posted in Media, Movies | Tagged christmas, holidays, Movies, poll, top 10
By Christopher Masiello on November 22, 2007
Quick Painless Install and Set Up for FREE If you have a website or do any type of web development you have probably needed a server at some point. Not everybody has a full blown commercial web server at their disposal for development, experimenting, and testing their site. You may think that it is both [...]
Posted in Software, Tutorials | Tagged apache, diy, how-to, mysql, php, server, Software, Technology, Tutorials, xampp
By Christopher Masiello on November 14, 2007
World Domination is Under Way I was just looking at some of my stats for visitors to this site and I saw some pretty amazing information. So far, I have had at least one visitor from over 70 countries around the world. That blew me away. As a tribute to all of my visitors from [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Ramblings, Web Surfing | Tagged countries, map, stats
By Christopher Masiello on November 12, 2007
Using Graphics and Animations to Explain Things Did you ever have a really complex concept or idea to express. Often times, words alone are not enough to convey the information in an effective way. Sometimes, I can put together a few PowerPoint bullets (ugh!), maybe a graph or chart, of if I’m feeling like exceeding [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Ramblings, Web Surfing | Tagged graphics, illustration, infographics, Training
By Christopher Masiello on November 7, 2007
The Good, the Bad, and the Hippies My wife and I have been a little stressed out lately and decided that we needed a weekend away to unwind. We chose a 4 day weekend in a Bed and Breakfast in Manchester, VT. Sounds lovely and peaceful, right? Think again. Run down, bug infested, ill appointed [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Ramblings, Personal | Tagged travel, vacation, vermont