Author: Bob Benz

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Media Bob

For sale …

I have several items that I’m trying to get rid of. This also is giving me an eye-opening look at online classifieds. I’m putting online/print ads in the local paper, the Thrifty Nickel and Yahoo! just to see what the differences are. So far, all I can say is that Yahoo! totally gets it. They make placing an ad online a simple and painless experience. The real test will be to see if their ads bring results …

Here are the items I’m selling:

A saltwater aquarium (You have to enter my phone number 865-691-7731 to see the ad, which is a print ad keyed to my phone number.)

A desk

A wireless base station

A printer

No sense linking to the desk or printer ads since the local paper got the numbers wrong. We’ll have to see if the Thrifty Nickel does better, but that ad doesn’t publish until Wednesday.

So Yahoo! was the only one that could get my ad up and running on New Years Eve without any delays. It’s also telling me how many people have viewed the ad …

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Techno Bob

An Apple a day …

My Mac continues to astound me. I’ve started moving my digital photo archive into iPhoto, a very cool database approach to storing digital images. It also has a feature that makes it easy to publish a slideshow to my .Mac account. Here’s my first test, using, of course, photos of my Big Green Egg. It couldn’t have been easier to publish the photos. I need to geek around a bit to see if I can adjust a few things, but I’m impressed.

From a business perspective, Mac also gets it. They have managed to sell me a .Mac membership, and I’ve already downloaded numerous CDs and songs from their online music store. I’m buying gadgets and add-ons for my iPod. This stuff is like crack. And it’s legal.

My one disappointment was the Apple Airport Extreme wireless base station. I couldn’t get it to work in a reliable manner with my PC/Mac network, and I’m going to sell it.

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Bad Bob

Animals taste good

P1010003.jpgI see that PETA is trying to make hay over the mad cow problem. Their approach is almost hilarious. Seems they want to assure us that if we just quit eating meat, our food supply would be warm and fuzzy safe.

Here’s the bad news: More people have died in the U.S. during the past year eating vegetables, green onions, specifically, than have died of mad cow disease. Tennessee and Pittsburgh both have had nasty hepatitis outbreaks linked to bad veggies.

Guess that wouldn’t make good copy for PETA’s propaganda …

In the meantime, I’ll keep nibbling on cows and chickens and pigs.