Show: #299
Length: 30:55
Size: 21.22mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris November 09, 2006

1) Fill out the appropriate form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

Show: #285
Length: 35:22
Size: 24.3 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris October 16, 2006

1) Fill out the appropriate form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

Thanks again to everyone who has signed up as a new listener or registered for a Handle!

Talking tally again on the homepage - we're five shy of 200 with thirty days left before the 300th show. I have a good feeling about us hitting 300 new listeners . . . or maybe more.

The moment we hit 300 new listeners the first set of iPods will get mailed out to the winners.

If you signed up for a handle and want to know how you are doing just look in the news section becasue from here to the 300th I'll be posting the stats daily.

Which leads me to ask a favor of any PHP nerds out here . . . how do I get a MySQL COUNT(*) query translated into PHP so that it doesn't look like crazy unique character strings? I can run my query with no problem in phpMyadmin but when I try to make my own page it totally flakes out. Once I figure it out or I get a little assistance we'll have fancy Handle Moxie page.

On a non-nerd note it is time to say, "thank you", to all those who are telling their friends and strangers about the podcast.

How do you enter? Well . . .

1) Fill out the right form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

From the tally on the homepage you can see that things are going pretty well for the 300 by 300th listener drive and contest. We're at day 10 with 40 new listeners signed up and using their RSS feeds to download shows.

I need to put the finishing touches on the "Handle Moxie" page and should have that done in the next few days. The "Moxie" page will list those with Handles and the amount of entries they have collected by having new listeners enter it when they register.

All right then, the good stuff. Thanks to everyone who has signed up as a new listener or registered for a Handle! So what can I say about this so far? The emails and posts to sites and blogs describing the show have been really great. The most flattering part by far is that they were even written in the first place and second is that they spell my name right, with a "k".

What else is cool? Significant others who listen getting a Handle and then having their companion sign up as a new listener. That is cool Sharing with those closest to you and getting another entry is a good thing. I am sure some more interesting trends will show up but for now that is all that I have noticed.

How do you enter? Well . . .

1) Fill out the right form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

We kicked off the 300 by the 300th listener drive and contest today! Though very quickly it became apparent that I should clear up the prizes. It is better, I think than I mentioned earlier.

At first it was going to be a pair for listener number 300 and the person who recommended them with their Croncast Handle (something I made up for this and a bit cheezy but I have to call it something). But I realized that there's really no incentive besides our humor to sign up before new listener #299.

So the solution . . . give away two more iPods. Everyone that enters the contest by the end is entered into a drawing for the other two. They will go to the "set" the newbie and the recommender (is that a word?).

So if you're new go fill out this form and follow the steps. If you are current listener and want a Handle to get some more entries fill out this form.

The live counter should be up later tonight. Yeah yeah.

Update: I have the live counter working but haven't put it into the site yet. It needs a place to fit and so far I haven't found one but to rework my banners. We'll see.

Show: #262
Length: 31:38
Size: 21.7 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris August 14, 2006

1) Fill out the appropriate form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed

As you can see by the graphic and the stuff on the site we are starting the 300 by 300th listener drive and contest today. I am in a huge hurry so I can't say more now.

Super duper ooper short show notes for now.

Betsy is at her best on this show. Enough said.

Add a comment below to finish that sentence:

"You should listen to Croncast because . . . "

Just like those 'Going out of Business' sales, this contest too, shall come to an end. The contest for the Black 30gb iPod also know as "My Vacation Sucked Too!" ends tonight at 11:59 PST.

To enter just send and email to vacations@croncast.com with your horrible vacation details. Preferred format is a short story, of course. Read more about the contest.

The picture above is Elliot preparing to get down for his birthday party yesterday. This may possibly be the reason that Betsy is feeling sick. I think I have it easy most days by shuffling off to work at dawn and arriving home for dinner when she spends all day mediaiting little man social interaction with a baby hanging off her hip.

So recording last night was out of the question. Meaning that today's show will be up later tonight. It may be really late, but it will go up.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a story for the iPod contest. You Rock!! We'll read some of them tonight.