In the last 48 hours I've had a catastrophic hard drive crash and none of the data is salvageable. Meaning .wav files that I have retrieved sound like a mash up between Dr. John, Van Halen, intergalactic static and Betsy on meth. My ipod won't even turn on or power up or charge and a Mirra personal server that I bought to start backing up other data seems to be just crap on my little network. Arrrrgh.

Evidently, he would blame jewish folks for war and threaten to smote police officers for busting him on DUI. Or would he?

Alcoholism is some tough business. So good luck with that Mr. Mel. I've never been one but having family that I'll never speak to again, I can attest to its destruction. Get some help holmes.

Steve Kaminski from the Grand Rapids Press has a review of the Alltel Racing Podast that shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in business podcasting, "Alltel's NASCAR podcast proves insightful". Kaminski comes to the podcast as a skeptic and leaves a believer in the power of podcasting.

" 'Yippee' is what I thought when I opened up my e-mail and read that Alltel has introduced the Alltel Racing Podcast this season.

Can you say "infomercial?"

On second thought, don't say it.

You would be wrong.

This is not scripted and rehearsed. With Borland, you get shoot-from-the-hip, no holds barred, opinionated talk.

I talked to Alltel executives last week, and they said they wanted to give fans a behind-the-scene look at their race team. That they deliver."

What Alltel has done is simply to follow rule one in podcasting to have successful show. What is that rule? Honesty. Just be honest. Be human.

Take a listen at www.alltelracingpodcast.com.
  

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	Alltel Racing Podcast  NASCAR  Matt Borland  Ryan Newman  Steve Kaminski
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As many of you know I am a stats freak. So since we passed our 250th show I thought I would share some numbers. These numbers aren't for the entire 250+ shows but for the new site that went live on April 9th of this year.

Totals are since the site went live 3 months ago:

Shows: 38
Downloads: 49,461
Downloads from RSS: 40,162
Downloads from site: 9,299
Avg downloads per show: 1,301
Unique listeners who have downloaded: 3,998
RSS hits: 254,826
Unique RSS hits (includes bots and spiders): 5,160
Unique RSS daily avg. hits (all feeds): 562
% of people using old RSS feeds (prior to new site launch): 79.1%
% of people using new RSS feeds (post new site launch): 20.9%
% people using iTunes to subscribe: 49.7%
% of people using Juice to subscribe: 9.9%

How did you get this information? From Castlock.

What is Castlock? It is the podcast platform that runs this site.

Where can I get it? Right now it is mine and only mine.

What does it do? Manages this entire site, podcasts, RSS feeds, delivers mucho stats, allows for HTTP Authentication of feeds and is integrated with Authorize.net payment gateway for paid for subscription RSS feeds.

That's it. Those are the stats that I check everyday on the download and RSS side of the house.
  

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	stats  croncast  kris smith  betsy smith  rss  Castlock

I got an email with a guess about what car I traded my Scion xB (below) for. The first guess from Eric O. was a Honda Element (even more below).

Eric said he could see me driving the Element. I think it is a great looking car but we'll see . . .

Did I trade this . . .

For this?