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Yankee Stadium

A pic from my camera phone from the Red Sox May 28th 17-1 romp over the Yankees.  (Have you ever had seats where you looked down on the foul pole?)

U2 in Boston

A pic from my camera phone from the May 26 show at the TD Bank North Garden (AKA Fleet Center) in Boston.

Ruiz Zings Intel

CNET News.com writer John G. Spooner interviews Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz on what the future holds in low-cost PC's:

Spooner:  "Then AMD isn't planning to do something like Intel Inside? "

Ruiz: "No. We prefer to be on our customers' side rather than on the inside. "

Now, how long has Ruiz had that little sound byte (sic) handy?

Great Stock Photo Site

In an earlier post, I wrote about FreeFoto.com, but Sotck.XCHNG has an entire community of contributors with over 100,000 stock photos from over 9,000 users.  If you're looking for inspiration and a trouble-free source for photos, this is the way to go.

My Favorite TV Spots

"Beauty is its own reward. The best commercials can be pure little pieces along these lines."
World renowned television commercial director, Joe Pytka.


Joe Pytka has directed a number of well-known commercials including the This is your Brain on Drugs public service announcement, the Bartles and James Thank You for Your Support campaign, and the Ray Charles Uh-huh Pepsi spots. 

He also directed one of my favorite commercials of all time for Sony (Quicktime / Windows Media) about a middle-aged man who cashes-in to take a space flight (with help from Sony gadgets along the way).

My other favorite add is the Hummer commercial produced by Boston-based ad company, Modernista.  You can view all of the Hummer spots at their web site.

Finding Robo

Now that I’ve figured out how to get Google to crawl this blog, I figured I would post an entry for those trying to find me on the web.  (How vain am I?)  Anyway, you can ignore this post completely.  It’s simply a stream of consciousness that will dump enough key words into the Google index.

I was born in July of 1969 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.  I’ve lived in New Bedford, MA, Fredonia, NY, Orlando FL, Marlboro, MA (Marlborough, MA), Waltham, MA, Hull, MA, Bridgewater, MA, Arlington, MA and Hyannis, MA on Cape Cod.  I now live in Walpole, MA.

People know me as Rob Mello, Robert Mello, Robert J. Mello, and Robert James Mello.  I’m the son of James Mello and Marjorie Benton.  I am the brother of Leslie Mello, Rich Mello and Steven Mello, and uncle of Lillian Wood.  (Whew, this is starting to look like an obit!)

I have worked in New Bedford, MA, Norfolk, MA, Norwell, MA, Providence, RI, Boston, MA, Burlington, MA, Marstons Mills, MA and East Providence, RI.  I have worked for the Standard Times, Brooklawn Variety, Pine Grove Pharmacy, Lesco Tobacco, Showtime Sound, Robbie Jarvis Music, the Zeiterion Theater, A1 Courier, Megamix, X-Mix,  Benton Computer Services, BrainTree Security Software, Pentasafe, OAD, eBusiness Technology (eBT), Alphablox, Relicore, MaxSea Marine Software, Nestor Traffic Systems, and Palladium Group, Inc. (formerly Painted Word, Thinkfast Consulting, and the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative).

I have attended school in North Dartmouth, MA, Acushnet, MA, Newton, MA, Fredonia, NY, Chillicothe OH, Orlando, FL, Burlington, MA and Lowell, MA.  These schools include Friends Academy, Saint Francis Xavier, Bishop Stang High School, (Class of 1996) Boston College, SUNY Fredonia, The Recording Workshop,  Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts, Northeastern University, and U-Mass Lowell. 

I was in a couple of rock bands, Surge in high school and in The Igloos in Fredonia NY.  I have worked with literally hundreds of bands and recording artists, but the ones I spent most of my time with were Best Kept Secret, Style, Living Proof, Second Wind and Satellite Elvis.

So, if you don’t know it’s me by now, it’s not me you’re looking for.  If you are looking for me, you’ve found me, so send me an e-mail.  Chances are, I’ve been looking for you!