We are back!

After over a week of system upgrades and updates, Atch’s Place is back up! What I thought could occur over last weekend, actually took about 9 days to complete, but I think it was worth it. Here are some new features: – A brand new

Server upgrade this weekend

To all you regular visitors, I have scheduled a large upgrade this coming weekend, February 2nd – 3rd. I will be running the website on another server, but all the comments will be turned off. Also, the gallery will be offline during the upgrade. What

Illuminations 20th Anniversary

Today marks Epcot Illuminations 20th Anniversary! Maybe that will make you feel old, but it makes me feel pretty lucky to have experienced it so many times. There are rumors that starting in 2009 Illuminations: Reflections of Earth will be phased out with a new

Welcome New Team Members

I’m pleased to welcome two new members to our team! Harokot is a friend who has experience with Cancer in his own family. When he’s not playing WoW, he’ll be joining the fight for a cure! smassari is another co-worker and new sys admin. Welcome

Animal Kingdom celebrate’s 10 years

This year Disney’s Animal Kingdom will celebrate it’s 10th year anniversary! When the 4th theme park was announced it was surround by controversy and skepticism. Many said that a “Disney Zoo” was sure to fail. Animal rights groups protested. However, the park has been a

The Rule of Thirds

Here is a new series of Photography and Videography tips. These are some really simple things you can do to improve the quality of photos and video. The Rule of Thirds This is one of my favorite tips for composing a great photograph! There are

New Ride, New Style!

Congratulations Phideux! Welcome to team Subaru and Thank you for the test drive. What an outstanding vehicle! You can view other photos of Phideux’s ride in the Photo Gallery

This day in history

In about 64 days we will arrive on Walt Disney World property. Coincidently, in 1964 , a Disney lawyer, began covertly purchasing land in Central Florida officially beginning “One Man’s Dream” and changing the world forever!

Share your favorite Disney websites

Do you have a favorite Disney website? I have a few, but my favorite is Deb’s Unofficial Walt Disney World Vacation Information Guide. A few of my favorite things on this website are the weekly photo contests, and the up to the minute news reports,

Favorite Theme Park – Results!

The results are in and Epcot took the majority of the votes for favorite theme park! Even if the results are adjusted for those who didn’t (couldn’t) vote, Epcot would still be the winner. I have to say, that sort of surprised me a little.

10 weeks and counting

10 weeks from today we’ll arrive on Disney property! Can you believe it? Here are some photos of Illuminations: Reflections of Earth and the Mexico pavilion in World Showcase from my 2006 Disney vacation:

Get those shoes early!

Too early to start packing? Well maybe, but it is definitely NOT too early to start thinking about footwear. If you plan on buying new shoes, don’t waste another day! Get them now and start breaking them in. Even if you have to look silly

6,000,000 amazing points

This happened so fast I actually missed reporting our 5,000,000 point achievement! So here is latest… 6,000,000 Points contributed by our team! Ranked 220 of 95485 of all active teams in the world! Two team members have contributed over 1,000,000 points each, and two more

Your TV won’t work starting in 2009..

unless you have a newer, digital ready TV, or have a converter box! I’m speaking the truth! Read more here: http://www.dtvanswers.com/ The good news is that you can get up to two $40 coupons good towards the purchase of a new converter box. These coupons

Osborne Lights

Thanks to Mark and Joni for their updates to the “Must See Attractions” list. I have added their changes to the list which can be downloaded by clicking here. I also added the other nightly fireworks shows and assumed we all have those as a

Merry Christmas

I Wish You a Very Merry Christmas! I hope this message finds you and yours happy and healthy! I wish you all the happiness during this holiday season, and in the New Year! I also want to say a special Thank You to all the

LAN Party – Turkey Giblets Edition

Update: All done! What a blast! We played the LONGEST co-op half-life 2 map EVER!! I believe the estimates were around 4-5 hours for the ONE map! My fingers are SO SOAR! But it was all worth it. Thanks to all who came out to

LAN Party – Turkey Giblets Edition

Live Broadcast starts at 6:00pm – Stay Tuned! LAN partiers, Wii’ers, and PS3’ers Phideux and Atch hosting the “Turkey Giblets LAN party!” The plan: We’ll start Friday night (November 23th) and go into Saturday. Bring your own computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, headphones and/or speakers, and

Second teammate to hit 1,000,000 points!

Congratulations jspecht! It is hard to believe how far our team has come in the past year! We are currently ranked 248 of 87249 teams in the entire world! This is an absolutely amazing achievement. I Thank each and every one of you who are