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The dawn of Radiant Markets …

Post author By Bob Benz
Post date January 12, 2009
6 Comments on The dawn of Radiant Markets …

It seems as if it was only yesterday that I posted a note about leaving my corporate job at Scripps Newspapers to join Maroon Ventures. In fact, it was almost exactly a year ago.

It’s been an incredible year, and now Maroon Ventures is about to spin off its first startup: Radiant Markets. Wes Jackson will be the CEO of Radiant, and I’ll be working as the chief operating officer. Together, we’re hoping to create a business that offers effective, affordable and measurable results for small and medium businesses.

Here’s a link to the press release announcing the formation of Radiant.

It’s going to be another action-packed year …

Tags maroon ventures, Radiant Markets, Scripps, Wes Jackson

Prankster Bob Web Bob

Hey nonny nonny

Post author By Bob Benz
Post date January 2, 2009

Via Smokey Mountain Breakdown, I found this Blackadder Quote Generator that the BBC put together. No end of fun.

I was served this gem:

“Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we’ll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner.”

Sounds like a cunning plan …

Tags Blackadder, Smokey Mountain Breakdown

Paddle Bob

Navigating a handheld GPS

Post author By Bob Benz
Post date December 29, 2008

Holiday eating and drinking had me antsy to get out on the water and paddle, so I decided to oblige the urge today and take advantage of the opportunity to play with the handheld GPS Lara bought me for Christmas.

The weather was perfect — upper 50s, clear skies — but I stayed close to the shoreline anyway just in case I got dumped from my kayak. Water temperature was 47 degrees. Aside from gulls, herons and the occasional kingfisher, I was the only thing on the lake. It was good to plow through that open space after paddling the claustrophobic streams of Central Florida last week. I turned on the GPS, which recorded my 6.6 mile paddle. But I couldn’t figure out how to move the file to my computer in a format it would understand.

I’m using a Lowrance iFinder H20c, so I saved the MMC file to an SD card and moved the .usr file to my computer. Then I found GPS Babel, which coverted the Lowrance file to a Google Earth .kml file. From there it was simple to download Google Earth, view the route I took and then save it as a .jpg.

My favorite part of the file is you can see where I lingered at the entrance to Duck Cove on my way back to watch the sunset and snap this photo.

Tags Google Earth, GPS, kayak, lake loudon