Matt Stigliano's (rerockstar) Blog

Having trouble tracking mileage? I download the Tap2Track app for the iPhone after realizing how sloppy my travel records were.  We all know it's important to track our mileage for tax purposes, but most of us don't keep the best records of them. Tap2Track is from Intuit, the makes of TurboTax an...

photo courtesy of peyri Why subscribe to a quiet blog? Some of you may remember me lamenting about my blog's status as a "ghost town" and really not much has changed on that front.  I've been busy as you can imagine with my own site and blog, RErockstar.com, which has been going great.  When I l...

It's been quite a few days around here. If you're not a regular reader of my RErockstar.com blog or a resident of San Antonio, you may not know the story of the Hills of Rivermist sinkhole (aka "slope failure"), but it's a story I've been following with great interest and concern. Simply put, we'...

Video released. Now that Takara and her calf have had some time to rest, it looks like they're ready to enjoy their time at Sea World San Antonio.  Like most animals bonding with their mothers, the new calf has a lot to learn and it looks like Takara is ready for the task.  I can't wait to get o...

It wasn't easy. I wrote a post about a week ago (Wednesday, January 6, 2010 to be exact) and just clicked publish on it this morning.  It wasn't easy to write.  It was even harder to publish. It needed to be written though and I feel the world needed to see it.  Especially the real estate world....

photo courtesy of jeku arce Sea World San Antonio has a new Shamu. Look out Shamu, you've got competition!  Sea World San Antonio announced the birth of a new killer whale calf by Takara, an 18 year old Orca.  My wife can't get enough of Sea World (map), but I have yet to visit (for some reason,...

photo courtesy of Virtual REbarcamp Hope you're ready! I was lucky enough to attend last year's (wow, that already sounds weird) inaugural Virtual REbarcamp and enjoyed both the concept and the execution of this new spin on the REbarcamp format.  I wrote about my experience over at AgentGenius a...

photo courtesy of eflon   You'll need to do some homework. In order for this post to make much sense, you'll need to read up first.  Please read Larry and Sheila Agranoff's post "Should We Even Respond To This One?" (a featured post from 12/21/09) - if you're not a member of ActiveRain, the post...

photo courtesy of Mispahn No one ever said blogging was easy. I haven't posted here tons recently.  For a guy who managed to dive right in to blogging, I feel like I've neglected my ActiveRain blog a lot recently.  Sure, there's been holiday parties, me tearing an ear drum, me pulling a muscle i...

photo courtesy of mollypop Finally...a connection. I had a call today from Stacy Jones of The Jones Team in Katy, Texas, we've been trying to connect for awhile now, but today we finally spoke.  It was a conversation about real estate and technology (mostly websites) and I thoroughly enjoyed it....