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Crazy Times

Zach — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:26:16 +0000

These last few months have been a roller-coaster. After leaving Sandstorm Design in June, I have only one word to describe how I have been and that would be BUSY! I worked several short projects at a few different interactive agencies, a trading firm, and starting after labor day I will be full-time at Sears [...]

include vs. include_once vs. require vs. require_once

Zach — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:38:58 +0000

include (‘sponsor_links.php’); If the file sponsor_links is present in the current folder, it will be included ( way may want it to appear both – at the top and at the bottom). include_once (‘statistics.php’); If the file statistics.php is present, it means we want statistics for the page. Otherwise, we don’t want statistics. Deleting statistics.php [...]

Two Stories — Both True

Zach — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:20:44 +0000

STORY NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed ‘Easy Eddie.’ He was Capone’s lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In [...]

FIJI Water Urban Hunt

Zach — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:05:40 +0000

My friend Leyla is putting together an Urban Hunt in Chicago August 14th called FIJI Water Urban Hunt. This social competition will have 50 teams, 20 items, 1 day, 2 finalists, and 1 winning team. If you have will want to disconnect from your laptop and run around Chicago with your smart-phone and utilizing the [...]

What is Pumping Station One [VIDEO]

Zach — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:54:42 +0000

VIMBY – Pumping Station One Share and Enjoy:

Top 10 SEO checklist

Zach — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:13:07 +0000

Proper Title Tags Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page, followed by a brief description of the page content. It will be less than 65 characters and avoid using stop words such as: a, if, the, then, and, an, to, etc. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of [...]

Simple Life Lesson

Zach — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:43:18 +0000

At age 25, Jim makes $100,000 a year. He’s constantly traveling for business. He has a large home in which he often doesn’t visit some rooms for months at a time. He eats out every single night. He drives a leased Lexus, which he updates every few years at the end of the lease. He [...]

Hot Tub Time Machine

Zach — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:46:07 +0000

I received some free movie passes via BrokeHipster from my friend Kate to go and see the movie screening of Hot Tub Time Machine on Thursday. The movie I would described as the Hang Over meets Back to the Future II Share and Enjoy:

How NOT to be an enormous douche when you are getting to know a woman.

Zach — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:56:14 +0000

I came across this blog entry from a friend of mine, named Zach Schneider in Michigan. When I read this entry I found it to be very true and I wanted to spread the word to all guys out there so that they can treat women the way women should be treated. ######################################################### 1.) SINCERITY If you can’t act or speak with sincerity then just don’t. Nothing is more unattractive. If you don’t mean it, don’t say it. Don’t try and make yourself up to be something you are not. She will know, and she will laugh her ass off at you later. 2.) STFU Don’t talk about yourself too much, if you must expound upon your latest and greatest exploit don’t be a braggart. Make the story entertaining, short, and the ending should lead into a question you would like them to answer about themselves. You are trying to get to know them. Rattling your bonebox about yourself all night shows women one thing: your complete and utter lack of interest for anyone but yourself. 3.) BE A GENTLEMAN Your actions speak louder than your words. You are being examined most likely under a hell of a lot more scrutiny than your feeble mind could manage in her direction. She is paying attention to how you are moving, your facial expressions, and especially how you treat and speak of other people. You are a man act like one. Be respectful to those you come into contact with. Stand up when she approaches the table if you are sitting. Take her jacket. Open doors (car doors too lazy ass). Pay for her drinks. Should she decide to thank you, her company and continued tolerance of your dumb ass should be thanks enough. Nothing is more disgusting than expectation of compensation monetary or otherwise. 4.) OTHER WOMEN Don’t talk in any amount of detail about other women. Ever. The only exception: how much you love your mother (don’t take that too far either lest she confuse it for an Oedipus complex). Contrary to what you might think she doesn’t want to hear about how well you treated the last woman that dumped your dumb ass. She also doesn’t care how many other women think you are great. All that matters is her attention, and you won’t be getting it talking that way because again it only enhances the appearance of your own self interest. Seriously this is a great way to move a girl from love interest to permanent friend status real quick. You will know this has happened when they start telling you about their exes. 5.) MANNERISMS Show your interest by maintaining eye contact. Yes eye contact. You may let your eyes stray across her features on occasion, but nothing will class you as a pig faster than you staring at her body. Move with confidence and intent. If you are going to do something do it with aplomb. If you fear a fiery crash you will create one. Don’t. Women can read facial cues much better than you. Nothing is more disgusting or sad than a man who looks at a woman with needy desire written all over his face. I saw it sitting there, that means she saw it 10 fold. You can get away with a lot of facial expressions, but needy/unsure is not one of them. 6.) TOUCH Don’t grab women. Ever. If she wants you to touch her she will invite you to. When you decide to take this invitation touch should be light, fleeting, and it should be directed toward a respectful part of her person. Her arm, shoulder, hands, neck, and for the bold her face. Again if you can’t do this with confidence just don’t. Confident movement and sincere intent is the difference between desirable contact and disgusting groping. Gentleman don’t grope women. Anyway if you are an ENORMOUS DOUCHE and have read this note, hopefully you can get over yourself and realize that sincere intent trumps posturing bravado and can lead to an actual relationship as opposed to… well whatever the hell else you might manage on your own. In so doing perhaps you can shed your previous title and become a real man. Good luck!

Nine Words Women Use

Zach — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:51:44 +0000

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up. (2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game [...]

Setup LAMP on Ubuntu

Zach — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:34:35 +0000

Install Apache To start off we will install Apache. 1. Open up the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal). 2. Copy/Paste the following line of code into Terminal and then press enter: sudo apt-get install apache2 3. The Terminal will then ask you for you’re password, type it and then press enter. Testing Apache To [...]

Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet

Zach — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:48:41 +0000

Moving Around the Filesystem Commands for moving around the filesystem include the following. * pwd: The pwd command allows you to know the directory in which you're located (pwd stands for "print working directory"). For example, pwd in the desktop directory will show ~/Desktop. Note that the GNOME terminal also displays this information in the title bar of its window. * cd: The cd command allows you to change directories. When you open a terminal, you will be in your home directory. To move around the filesystem, use cd. â€¢ To navigate to your desktop directory, use cd ~/Desktop â€¢ To navigate into the root directory, use cd / â€¢ To navigate to your home directory, use cd â€¢ To navigate up one directory level, use cd .. â€¢ To navigate to the previous directory (or back), use cd - â€¢ To navigate through multiple levels of directories at once, use cd /var/www, for example, which will take you directly to the /www subdirectory of /var.

Install Gimp 2.6 in Ubuntu 8.04

Zach — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:47:53 +0000

Remove the old version of GIMP from Synaptic or in a terminal: sudo apt-get remove gimp Download and save all five GIMP packages from GetDeb. Double-click on the packages to install them, in this order: libbabl-0.0-0_0.0.22-1~getdeb1_i386.deb libgegl-0.0-0_0.0.18-1~getdeb1_i386.deb libgimp2.0_2.6.1-1~getdeb1_i386.deb gimp-data_2.6.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb gimp_2.6.1-1~getdeb1_i386.deb Now you can start GIMP normally, from Applications->Graphics->GIMP Image Editor. Share and Enjoy:

CSS Image Rollover

Zach — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:15:10 +0000

The CSS method uses what is known as an image sprite to load all the rollover effects as a single image and we then use CSS to do the transition. To create the image sprite just create a single image containing all of the individual transitions. Once you have your image sprite you just need [...]

IE Specific Stylesheets

Zach — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:15:47 +0000

Internet Explorer has it’s problems with CSS (OK, it’s pretty much awful) but if you are worth your salt as a CSS coder, you should be able to deal with it. I am of the opinion that you can handle anything IE can throw at you without a ton of hacks and without having alternate [...]

Installing Eclipse with the Palm WebOSdev SDK

Zach — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:27:26 +0000

Installing Eclipse and the Plug-Ins This section describes how to install and update Eclipse. Note: If you are using an earlier version of Eclipse, you must upgrade to Eclipse 3.4 to get the new plug-ins for Palm webOS development. To install Eclipse Download Eclipse 3.4.2, also called Ganymede. Mac: Download Eclipse 3.4.2 and extract into [...]

Zach Schneider Fan Page Project

Zach — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:51:49 +0000

I created a Facebook Fan Page today in hopes to create my first Facebook and Twitter application which is in the works. The idea of what my application will do is feed in a twitter feed to your Facebook page NOT your personal profile. There has been a few attempts but nothing yet that satisfies [...]

ColdFusion Try and Catch

Zach — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:50:28 +0000

In order for your code to directly handle an exception, the tags in question must appear within a cftry block. It is a good idea to enclose an entire application page in a cftry block. You then follow the cftry block with cfcatch blocks, which respond to potential errors. When an exception occurs within the [...]

IE on Ubuntu

Zach — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:41:36 +0000

Are you a web developer like myself needing to test crossplatform and would really prefer do it all on 1 OS (not Windows) well I have the solution IEs4Linux Type this in a Linux command terminal: =================================================================== wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz cd ies4linux-* ./ies4linux =================================================================== Share and Enjoy:

Power Wheels Racing Series

Zach — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:25:53 +0000

Power Wheels Racing Series from Jeff Kantarek on Vimeo. Share and Enjoy: