Author Archives: Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES

About Aaron Traffas, CAI, ATS, CES

Aaron Traffas, CAI, AMM, CES, is an auctioneer from Sharon, Kansas. For the last 22 years he's worked for Purple Wave. Aaron served as president of the Kansas Auctioneers Association in 2017 and on the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute Board of Trustees from 2009 through 2013. He is a past instructor at CAI and co-wrote the original ATS and AMM designation courses from NAA. An active contract bid caller, he has advanced to the finals in multiple state auctioneer contests. During the summer, Aaron operates a farm in south central Kansas. Aaron is an active singer and songwriter and the Aaron Traffas Band's latest music can be found at aarontraffasband.com as well as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon.

Document Foundation offers free alternative to OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice

The OpenOffice.org development community breaks from Oracle, creates the Document Foundation and releases LibreOffice. Continue reading

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Dropbox now in beta for BlackBerry

Dropbox releases BlackBerry beta. Continue reading

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Proxibid appoints former eBay SVP Ryan Downs as president

Yesterday, the news was released that Proxibid has appointed former eBay and PayPal executive Ryan Downs a new President of the company. An interview with Downs has already been posted by Ina Steiner from auctionbytes.com. The press release is below. … Continue reading

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Auction Payment Network announces specialized payment processing solutions for auction companies

Proxibid launches the Auction Payment Network to help auctioneers securely handle auction transactions. Continue reading

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New dat files in WordPress root

Image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to find a ton of randomly-named files in the root directory of several of my WordPress installations. The files are named similarly to 0303c831c9c6203ba966dbf523d119ab.dat. The data of these files looks like a serialized … Continue reading

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