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We just got done taking the booth down and getting things packed out for shipping out. Had a great time with the Blubrry and Rawvoice crew! I look forward to the next time we can get together!

Met a lot of new people and hooked up with a lot of other friends from past years of the New Media Expo. One of the highlights was meeting Mike James and his wife Jeanne at the show and at the Rawvoice Party.

There were some interesting moments. Rob Blatt finished second in the Fat Burger XXX Challenge by eating a 1.5lb hamburger. Tech Podcast member Jeffery Powers also finished 2nd in his heat by eating the same size burger.

I would like to thank the Rawvoice Team for letting me be a part of such a great company and it was really great to have the whole team in the same place for once!

All in all, it’s been a great trip so far. Now for some Vegas Play Time! Kathy and I will be sticking around until Monday and then we will fly home to the Cold cold real world of Northern Michigan!

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Heading out today for Vegas! Going to be at the Blogworld and New Media Expo at the Las Vegas Convention center. Look for me at the Blubrry / RawVoice booth on the show floor. I would love to meet you if you are coming out. Otherwise, I will try to put out a podcast while there. No Guarantees, but I will try to get some recordings.

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Back about a year ago, my wife and I decided to get rid of our land line phone. The cost was more then we wanted to pay for a phone we didn’t use much. I also figured it would make life much more simple because we would just have one phone number each.

Fast forward to now. I have since signed up with Google Voice (my main voicemail line at the right hand side of the page). On top of that I have a Skype-in number and just today, I picked up a “Say Now” number (www.saynow.com) So now, there are 4 numbers for me and 2 for my wife. I guess that’s ok, and the way it’s setup, it won’t bother us if people call (other then my cell phone when I’m sleeping).

I also picked up a Skype to POTS adapter which lets me plug in a normal phone to a computer running skype. So now, I can have my cordless phone working again and use it with the Skype in or Skype out or even normal Skype calls. It’s really handy! I just got that thing installed this morning and had a chance to talk to my friend Jeff Forester (aka Trucker Two Times) while he was driving his big truck around Nashville. IT worked perfectly.

So if you need or want to get a message to me via the phone. You can call my Google Voice # at 231-715-1366. If you just want to leave a note for the podcast, you can call my new Say Now # at 231 803-4069.

Hope your week is going good!

-Mike

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I’m convinced that I’m addicted to WordPress. For my job, I am in the process of moving 2 websites over to WordPress from another CMS. I didn’t realize that WP could be used like a CMS. It works great!

I already loved WordPress before I figured this out. I have 9 websites that run on WordPress and I have 2 more that I’m converting over to WordPress (not counting the ones for work).

It seems now that whenever I think of a good idea for a site, I hit Godaddy and buy the domain, install WordPress, and I have another. I’m going to have to quit this!

But not cold turkey! I’ve installed another wordpress site, but this one should reduce my urge to install more of my own. It’s www.boonadello.com. This is my consulting site. Now I will consult others on how to blog, podcast and use social websites and the best part is I will get to setup some of their WORDPRESS sites! It’s a win-win for everyone!

I think this may stem my desire to populate my servers with 200 installs!

If you would like me to help you with your blogging, podcasting or whatever, just go visit boonadello.com and see what I’m talking about.

In other news, Geek Of The North has launched. I did the first real show yesterday. I would put it in the MDW feed, but I want to keep them somewhat separate. If you would like to hear more of me podcasting, go check out that site at www.geekofthenorth.com (yes, another WordPress site) I do plan on putting out a Mike Dell’s World podcast in the morning (Wednesday) so stay tuned.

Now back to configuring WordPress!

-Mike

*** If you get a good idea for a site, I can get you $7.49 .com domain names. Use the promo code podname85 at checkout. (/shameless plug) ***

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From the National Weather Service today:

Record Report
Statement as of 8:40 PM EDT on July 18, 2009

…Record low maximum temperatures set across the area…

The temperature at the Gaylord regional Airport only reached 57
degrees on Saturday…July 18…establishing a new record low
maximum temperature for the date. The previous record was 63 degrees
set exactly 100 years ago in 1909. In addition…the high of 57
degrees was the 4th coldest high temperature reading ever recorded
in the month of July (coldest is 54 degrees). Records in Gaylord
date back to 1893.

At the Cadillac Airport…the high temperature on Saturday only
reached 59 degrees. This reading establishes a new record low
maximum temperature for the date…smashing the old record of 66
degrees set back in 1924. The high of 59 degrees was the fifth
coldest high temperature reading ever recorded in the month of July
(coldest is 55 degrees). Records in Cadillac date back to 1909.

Finally…at the Pellston Airport…the high temperature of 59
degrees on Saturday established a new record low maximum for the
date…breaking the old record of 61 degrees set in 2000. This value
was the 4th coldest high temperature reading ever recorded in the
month of July (coldest is 55 degrees). Records in Pellston date back
to 1948.

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