Archive for January, 2009

Great Band – Blue Judy

Posted by Matt on January 29th, 2009 under All Tags: , ,  •  No Comments

I first learned about Blue Judy from my barber (stylist?) Buddy Schlosser in Normandy Park. Turns out their bass player is Luke Benedum, a kid I grew up with. I was a few years older than Luke and was his diving coach at the Normandy Park Swimming Club. I remember Luke being a good guy, [...]

New Look for MattCass.com

Posted by Matt on January 14th, 2009 under All, Personal Thoughts  •  No Comments

Hope you like the new look of my website.  WordPress is amazing and makes creating sites like this a real snap.  I can’t believe my old site was online and basically untouched for nearly 4 years!  Wowza.

Inkjet Cartridges – go for the refurbished ones

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Business Lessons Learned  •  No Comments

Last week I bought an inkjet refill kit for $10.  The idea was to save money by reusing my inket printer cartridges instead of purchasing new ones.  Over a year or so I was expecting to save around $100. The process for refilling the spent cartridge wasn’t too compicated but a bit messy.  I followed [...]

Postcards that I used for marketing my website design business

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Business Lessons Learned Tags: , ,  •  No Comments

Think of what it’s like when you are sorting through your mail (actual mail, not email).  Surely there will be some junk mail, flyers, etc.  How much time do you give each of these unsolicited items?  1-2 seconds, right? When I decided to start a website design business in 2004 my first marketing effort was [...]

My iPhone Review (rant) after using it for 2 weeks

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Personal Thoughts  •  No Comments

July 18, 2007 by Matt Cassarino (Seattle WA) So, you wanna know what it’s like to have an iPhone? My iPhone experience has been bitter sweet. Ya see, I just bought it a few weeks ago. In fact, I was one of those guys who waited in line at the store to get one. The [...]

Video: hilarious beep box + baking recipe

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff  •  No Comments

One of my favorites…

Video: Japanese Mall Waterfall – Wow!

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff  •  No Comments

This is pretty slick

Firefox extension for taking screenshot directly in the browser – cool!

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff Tags: ,  •  No Comments

It’s called ScreenGrab.  It’s free and takes about 1 minute to setup. This one is so useful for me.  I take a lot of screenshots, mostly for sharing an aspect of a website with someone via email or in creating a specs document for a new website that I am building.  Before installing this AWESOME [...]

Awesome iPhone App – the Ocarina – Playing Stairway to Heaven

Posted by Matt on January 13th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff Tags:  •  No Comments

I have yet to download this one but it’s pretty cool!  I’ve also heard that the iPhone responds to your TONGUE!  Talk about some funky apps!

Welcome! Here we go…

Posted by Matt on January 9th, 2009 under All  •  No Comments

Welcome to my personal blog!  Or as we programming geeks like to say, Hello World! Disclaimer: I am not much of a blogger, so proceed with caution… So this is the home of my personal adventures, which mostly consists of neat stuff that I am doing and cool things that I find on the web.  [...]