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Apparently, there was a problem with the plugin that crashed the site. Well, things are fixed now! Hopefully, not too many people noticed!
– Dave
UPDATE: I should really put the day of the “no post” up to eliminate any confusion about which day I’m talking about (which was Tuesday night).
Anyway, ever had one of those days where your ex-wife calls you to tell you that (1) instead of paying her mortgage, she chose to make other decisions with her money? And, oh by the way, (2) the bank didn’t like that she didn’t make the payments, so, after a few discussions with the bank, (3) the bank put it up for auction and sold it. Finally, (4) she was now calling me to let me know what had happened so that I could help support the kids through this emotionally!
Now, because my 3 kids live there and because I personally have $30k in equity (and she has $220k in equity), this is no minor mistake. Despite talking with her several times, I doubt I’m getting the full story. She’s not stupid, but this was beyond dumb.
Seriously, what was she thinking?
So, while I like a break now and then, I would have much rather not had to have a break at all ….
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Sorry, I had a late night of driving. Drop by tomorrow PM for posts.
thx,
– Dave
I knew that eBay had managed to purchase a sizeable chunk of Craigslist back in 2004, but I didn’t know the following.
1) eBay is fighting to get a board of directors position on the Craigslist board, because they own 28% of the company.
2) To keep this from happening, Craigslist has been attempting to dilute ownership so that eBay will own less than 25% of the company, which keeps eBay from being able to demand a board seat.
3) I knew that there are only a handful of employees at Craigslist (maybe 20?), but the revenues last year for Craigslist totaled about $100m. That’s much, much higher than I expected! Given the size of their employee base, I suspect they are either contracting out a lot of services or raking in a lot of cash.
4) eBay launched Kijiji, a competing classified website which I have seen around, but never took very seriously.
I’m not saying one venture is better than the other, but eBay would eat their own children, while Craigslist is a community focused, egalitarian venture (hence the lack of ads, the lack of a national or international company sponsored search engine, etc). One is public, while the other is private. One is entrenched in the center of San Jose and Silicon Valley, while the other is situated in the heart of San Francisco. eBay only obtained ownership by purchasing private stock from an early founder or investor (I can’t remember which); this didn’t make the other owners very happy. Therefore, this relationship is destined for a rocky relationship of some kind.
I found this example of a Dashboard at the Jeep 4×4 Center website. I thought the details were really nicely exploded. I’d like to build something like this for various jeeps. It would certainly help me remember what is supposed to be where on various flatties. Anyone run across diagrams like this for flatties?
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $1200.
I suppose the story goes like this, “One day, I parked it in the field and couldn’t start it, so I left it there …”?
“Perfect project vehicle or parts car. Has not run but 4 cyl. motor still turns.”
John forwarded me some pics from the August Flat Fender Frenzy. You can view more pics here. Here’s a link to pics from previous years.
John writes, “Our FFF was held aug. 14-16, at Lost Valley Jeep, Bainbridge Ohio. 15 flat fenders lined up for a Saturday trail ride. Jester Hill Grill was our feed’n hole. We camped at Pike Lake State Park.”
Updates will occur infrequently tonight in-between Nazi Zombie sessions tonight (Karson’s visiting 🙂 )
This could be a good deal for someone.
“aluminum half cab , doors, m38 windshield frame 250 obo call Aaron @ 810 650 2136 ”
http://porthuron.craigslist.org/pts/1468031244.html
My Broadband is acting slow tonight, so more updates will need to wait til tomorrow.
– Dave
This pic of kids on a jeep was too precious to resist …
