I just thought that this was too funny not to post.  This is our Chihuaha Mojo, that stays with my parents.  He is absolutely spoiled rotten too and probably has one of the worst dispositions known to man.  He can go from adorable to insane in a matter of seconds.  This is one of his more adorable moments.

Mom had him dressed up for the Razorback game this past weekend w/ Ole Miss in a Razorback sweater. He also has one of those hog nose things but doesn't like to wear it.

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This past week was pretty cool, Monday morning I showed up early at the Conway Airport to pickup my business partner Stephen and one of our VIP clients, Mark Martin. Yep, that Mark Martin, who a day earlier was speeding 200 mph around the track at Kansas Motor Speedway in the Nextel Cup Series.  I knew for a few days that they were coming into town but we try to keep things like this under wraps for obvious reasons, the last thing we wanted to see was a bunch of NASCAR groupies show up with numbers painted on their chests. 

We cruised all through town in Donna’s SUV, with Mark sitting in the backseat. Once we headed right down the middle of UCA’s busy campus and went totally undetected. Here’s the best part, we went to grab at bite to eat at Chilis, one of our busier restaurants in Conway. 

We sat at a table located right at the front door. We talked over lunch and for a long time afterwards about his new airplane, an Eclipse 500, and not a person in the restaurant said a word or even recognized him. The manager did a double-take when we walked in but that was about it. It was hilarious, at one point he even walked outside to sit on the bench to take a phone call and we watched as people just breezed right past him, not a person hassled him the entire time.  I thought that was awesome! 

For those of you who have wondered what he is like, I can tell you this from the times I have been around him, he is extremely down to Earth, and is a great guy to talk to. We mostly talked about his newest airplane, an Eclipse 500.  Once we finished with lunch I carried them back out to the airport and they headed back to Batesville. 

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That’s right!  I learned this week that Microsoft is entering NASCAR as a sponsor for BAM Racing’s #49 Spring Cup Series Team headed up by veteran driver Ken Schrader.  This is awesome news for BAM Racing who has been struggling as one of NASCAR’s smaller teams. 

Microsoft is apparently using their NASCAR involvement to promote their SMB division.  I have seen a preview of the car also and it’s going to be pretty sharp.   Should be interesting watching Microsoft enter into the sport.

Here’s a link to NASCAR.com’s news release regarding this new partnership between Microsoft and BAM Racing: NASCAR.COM - BAM Racing, Microsoft deal showcasing small business - Mar 26, 2008

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This is the official press release posted on Pleth’s corporate website regarding the launch of our newest online property, www.nascarview.com.

Cotton Rohrscheib, Partner and Co-Founder of Pleth Networks, an Arkansas Based Web Design & Managed Hosting Provider announced today that his firm had recently launched NascarView.com, a fan driven online community and news website for NASCAR fans.

"Nascar View is updated on a weekly basis with News, Information, and Commentary regarding that weeks racing highlights in all of the top NASCAR series.  The website follows the top series, the Sprint Cup Series (formerly the Winston and Nextel Cup Series) the closest but also makes mention of the other two series (Craftsman Truck and Nationwide Series) as well, said Rohrscheib.

"There are also a couple of sections on the website that we feel will be pretty popular among NASCAR fans.  One of these sections is the "Flying Helmets" section.  It’s widely known that NASCAR drivers have a tendency to let their emotions run high during and following a close race.  When these emotions run high sometimes helmets can be thrown and cars can be wrecked, that’s just the nature of the beast.  The flying helmets section will highlight these incidents and offer some behind the scenes information as well as flaming commentary that is destined to spawn user feedback" added Rohrscheib.

In addition to Race Reviews and Driver / Team News, the Nascar View website will also feature a NASCAR Collectibles blog that will showcase some of the most sought out NASCAR collectibles on the market.  Visitors the the Nascar View website also have the ability to sign up for email updates when the website is updated as well as subscriptions via RSS Feed.  A new Community Forum is also planned in the very near future as well as a Video Vault that will showcase some of NASCAR’s finest moments as well as high-impact crashes. 

"We are also in the process of putting together some driver interviews in the very near future" said Rohrscheib.  "I have been in talks with one driver in particular that is looking at running a partial season this year in the Cup Series and he has agreed to come on and be our first interview" said Rohrscheib.

Nascar View is an online property owned and operated entirely by Pleth Networks, LLC, an Arkansas Based Web Design & Managed Hosting Provider.

"This is the first online property that we have launched for ourselves.  We actually purchased this website a couple of years ago and are just now getting it ready to go live.  We are extremely excited about this website and look forward to watching it take off.  Currently we are seeking a team of Bloggers to offer their commentary and perspective as well, if anyone is interested please contact us by email to: corporate@pleth.com" added Rohrscheib.

The Nascar View website is also syndicated on various media websites around the web.  Any media outlet interested in syndicating the Nascar View website should contact Pleth Networks via email to: corporate@pleth.com.

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Cotton Rohrscheib, co-founder of the popular NASCAR fan website, NASCAR View, unveiled the new logo for the website today.  The new website features the easily recognizable checkered flag that is displayed at the end of each race as well as the trademarked subtitle, “The Moday Morning Armchair Crew Chief’s Blog”.  To view the new logo, please visit www.nascarview.com.  Please stay tuned to this website for details about the complete launch of this popular website.

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My partners and I are going to be launching a new NASCAR Themed Blog site in the very near future, I thought that I would post a preview of the site here first as a preview of what’s to come.  This project is the first standalone website that my partners and I are launching as an online property for Pleth.  Typically we only develop projects for our clients but when the opportunity came our way to get involved with this project for ourselves as a sideline investment we couldn’t turn down the opportunity. 

I am pretty excited about the project because as many of you already know, next to Web Development my other passion is NASCAR!  It’s nice to be able to combine to two into one product.  We will simply manage the Blog in-house as we build readership and a strong user base.  Our plans are to monetize the project in the near future for research purposes to assist our clients who have expressed an interest in monetization through social networking sites and blogs.

The Nascar View website is basically a NASCAR news portal setup in the form of a Blog that welcomes community interaction and user generated content.  At this time we are pursuing several die-hard NASCAR fans that have expressed an interest in contributing to the Nascar View project.  We will hopefully launch the project in a few weeks, I will post another entry here when it’s launched.

Sections of the Blog will include Driver News, Team News, and Race Reviews.  There will also be a section of the website that caters to the Nascar Collector Community that has grown to epic proportions since Nascar’s rise in popularity over the past decade.  Another section of the site that we expect to be very popular is the Hot Helmet’s section.  This section of the website is dedicated to tracking Driver Feuds as they evolve both on the track and off the track. We also plan to keep Nascar View Subscribers abreast of the latest gossip surrounding their favorite drivers and teams as well. 

Upon it’s launch, subscribers to the Nascar View have the opportunity to get email or rss updates whenever new content is added to the website, and of course the public is invited to post their comments to the site as well, we are looking for a high level of user participation.

Nascar on TV is another section of the site that we feel will be very popular as well, it’s not hard to find a schedule of the 2008 season online but it can be quiet a challenge if you are looking for television listings for upcoming races, we plan to serve this need as well.

As I mentioned, the Nascar View website is stil in it’s beta stages at this time but stay tuned for updated info about the site and it’s possible release date.  To preview the beta version of the website: Nascar View.  The entire website is built upon the popular Wordpress Blogging Platform and our editors use Windows Live Writer to maintain it’s content.

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