February
25
Just a little update on how things are going in FiddyP land…
I have been taken on as a director in another company which splits me up even more so I have been unable to put much time into new tutorials for here. I have tried to keep up with the comments and do visit the blogroll a couple times per week (sorry I can’t comment most times everyone!). I’ll be making a post or two about what I’ve been doing commercially when the projects are at the 60% and beyond stage.
Contests
These are easy to post and pretty easy to manage so we’ll keep up with them! There seems to be a regular supply of Euromillions rollovers so I will keep the contest to win the Vmoda headphones for each rollover that happens. They only run for a few days and the winner is the person who successfully picks both lucky star numbers in the comment of the post.
I do have some fantastic plans for a contest that will be unlike (m)any other(s). Keep an eye out for that, I came up with the idea a while ago and it’s only now that I have the wonga to throw at it. It’s gonna be great!
uVme
I have had some fun working out some strategies for the different uVme games. I created a simple splash page for my imgames website which will be pointed to from a few different flash game type sites and sources. I like to have a quick go on darts or sudoku as a free game when I get a few minutes and see if I can send a challenge to any new player signups.
I will be offering a free fiver to people that join through my link soon. The idea is, you sign up and credit your account with a fiver (dollars, pounds or euros) and when you create a fiver worth of play then I send you your fiver back so you don’t actually have to spend the whole fiver, just create a fiver’s worth of play (if you play 10 games at 1/2 a $/£/E and win every one of them, you’ll have 7.50 $/£/E PLUS another 5 $/£/E)
Shop
The FiddyP postage shop should be getting some more listings soon too, I have a fair bit of stock to shift and as soon as I get a half a minute I’ll start putting item descriptions up. There will be an affiliate option too so you can link to the shop and get 15% commission on everything someone buys after using your link!
If there’s anything else you’d like to see here just leave a comment….
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February
23
Rhys from GospelRhys.co.uk is going to run 3 miles for sport relief – an organisation that arranges events based around sport to raise money for good causes. It gets massive exposure from the TV and press and I think Rhys is a great guy for signing up to run 3 miles even though, in his own words, he is still a relatively fat bastard!! 
He’s reached his goal of 101 GBP (about 202 USD) but I want you to visit his very funny blog and join the growing list of sponsors and help him raise oodles of money for great causes which will definitely go to those that need it.
You can go direct to his sponsoring page or go and read his post about running 3 miles for Sport Relief. While you’re there, check out his other great and funny posts! I am a proud sponsor of his blog and his daunting run..
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February
22
There is a winner for the iPod portable speakers! I decided to let the Euromillions results decide on who would win by putting a number between 3 and 17 on each entry on this post and whoever matches the total of the two lucky stars will win (lucky stars are between 1 and 9 with no two numbers the same). If there aren’t enough entrants to cover all 15 possible numbers and the two lucky stars add up to a number higher then the winner will be decided by the lowest number that is between 3 and the last number assigned.
That winner is Maggies Musings who was assigned the number 4 which happens to be the only number that was within the range! how convenient! You need to notify me on this post or email at the address I used to comment on your blog before Tuesday to claim your prize or it goes to the next person that matches their number to the bonus on Wednesdays’ lotto draw….
Congratulations Maggie, I’ll come over and post a message to let you know…
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February
18
There is another rollover for the Euromillions this Friday for a whopping 21,000,000 lump sum tax free jackpot! I noticed an influx of people joining a Euromillions Syndicate for the last super jackpot and I predict a riot for this one too!
Having a syndicate with elottery really helps to win a prize (last rollover, my syndicate won 245.67GBP!) because there’s no worries about the 2 lucky star numbers – they’re guaranteed to be matched on every draw for every syndicate because of the way the numbers are spread out for each syndicates’ members.
One thing I have noticed is an increase of people joining just for the 1 draw, it’s a fiver for 36 chances to win a prize and the chance to win even a small prize by just matching 1 of your numbers is a real bonus for people. If you fancy having a go, just visit my main elottery page and click the yellow “join now” tab. You can pay by multiple methods and just try it for a week if you like! (we have a great elottery affiliate program too)
Contest!
OK, I still have the sexy headphones up for grabs so if you fancy a chance at winning these VModa Bass Frequency ‘phones, just leave a comment with 2 different numbers between 1 and 9 and if your numbers match the two lucky stars on Friday 22nd Febuary then you win the set! You can see the results within minutes of the draw by checking the Euromillions Results on the sidebar up to the right. Be sure to get your guesses in early
Good Luck!
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February
16
I’ve just been checking on a site to check who shares the hosting for some of my domains and I was amazed that some of my domains share their IP with over 500 other sites!
Take a look at http://www.myipneighbors.com/ and see how many other sites you are neighbors with, just input your IP or domain name and it’ll search and tell you who ‘lives’ next door.
This domain (fiddyp.co.uk) has just been moved to a new server and it’s nice to see that it’s living on it’s own (for now)
This might explain why emails from certain domains go straight to the spam box, guess I’ll have to start sending them from lonely domains from now on!
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February
12
There’s still time to enter this months contest to win these amazing portable iPod speakers!
This will be one of the easiest contests yet!. You could win a set of these wonderful iMaingo iPod portable speaker sets. (RRP 59.99GBP)
The sound that comes out is deep enough and loud enough to impress and they carry your iPod or iPod nano around inside ready to blast out your tunes anywhere.
This contest is slight different, you could make some money even if you don’t win!
The rules:
- Write about the contest on your blog linking to this post.
- mention that if you don’t win, you can buy them directly from here by linking to this post
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/imaingo-portable-speakers/ (or use the affiliate link by joining the affiliate program (details below) and using words similar to “buy iMaingo iPod speakers with FiddyP UK postage and packing direct from FiddyP.co.uk”
(international postage rate is 3.50 GBP to anywhere)
- Leave a comment with a link to your post on this post
That’s it! couldn’t be more simpler. The contest will run for just 3 weeks from today ending on Friday 22nd Feb 2008.
Affiliate luvvliness
Here’s where you can earn some money simply by writing about the contest. I use a wonderful service from e-junkie that allows me to add an affiliate link for this product so if anyone clicks through and actually buys a set, I’ll pay you a whopping 15% commission!
You will need to Join my Affiliate Program! first and when you link to the product page using the affiliate link that you will be able to get after you activate your affiliate account (be sure to enter your paypal details so you get paid!) in your post, it will automatically remember that a buyer came through your site (for 6 months!) and when they pay for the item, you will be sent an email for each sale originating from your website. Each month’s earnings will be paid via PayPal within 15 days of month end.
You can join the affiliate program even if you don’t enter the contest, just add a link to the product page using the special code given to you after you join. The affiliate cookie lasts for 6 months so even if they don’t buy these, when new products come here you will also be able to earn commission on those too!
If the affiliate thing is popular enough, I’ll add some more products that I know sell well on ebay and give YOU the chance to earn the commission instead of ebay. Feel free to ask me any questions about this in the comments.
Good Luck!!
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February
6
Quick contest below!…
This Friday there is a massive SUPER jackpot of 95,000,000 GBP !!
That’s massively Gi-Normous!! I’ve already got an edge because I play through elottery which has been giving me an average of 2 wins per week since I started. I have a post somewhere on my old blog that recorded every time I won during a 3 month period and it went on down the page for ages!
I can’t imagine what I would do with so much money, I’m sure it wouldn’t change me (yeah right!). All I ask is the chance to prove that money wouldn’t change me
There’s a much better chance of me winning through elottery because my multiple free syndicates all have a guarantee that BOTH lucky star numbers will be matched for every draw and winning with just 5 matches is a lot easier than with 5 and 2 lucky stars…. it’s like, almost guaranteed to win something this week!
If you’re from the USA, you can’t enter because it’s Euro peeps only and it’s illegal for U.S. banks to allow transfer to gambling sites outside the country BUT, you CAN enter the FiddyP version on this post (read below). The rest of the world can enter through my elottery site and stand a much better chance of winning with one of our syndicates…(you can enter the contest here too)
Some things I would like to do if I had the money:
- Build a Buddhist Temple in London
- Build schools in Africa and other underprivileged places and pay for people to learn teaching skills to go over there and teach
- Build some wicked good houses way outside London and live in a different one each week
- Start a multitude of businesses and give them to my friends and family
- Pay for an advert on every TV channel to show my naked arse (ok so this one isn’t serious!)
- Buy some biscuits…(see above)
Quick Contest
To add to the excitement, I am going to run a very short contest on this post and you need to leave a comment to be entered.
The Euromillions works by matching 5 numbers between 1 and 50 plus two lucky star numbers between 1 and 9 (different numbers).
You can win these sexy headphones from Vmoda if you leave a comment on this post and include your guess of 2 different numbers between 1 and 9. If anyone can match both numbers with the actual draw this Friday 8th Feb 2008 (you can see up to the minute results on the sidebar) then you win the headphones!
If there is more than one winner….. then EVERYONE that matches both of their numbers with the lucky star numbers will win a set. You can be from anywhere in the world and I will pay for postage and insurance to get them to you as quick as possible.
This contest couldn’t be more easier (or shorter! LOL) so get your guesses in as soon as you see this and tell as many people as possible!
- You can enter the Euromillions with one of my magical syndicates at my elottery site
- You can still enter the iPod speakers contest which is open for another 2 and bit weeks
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47
Spammers use Top Commentators vulnerability to hijack top list
February4
Many thanks to Scott from UK MAC.net (a great UK site for Apple Mac’s) for sending me an email about this. He noticed that his name was number 1 on the Top Commentators list on the sidebar but, his name linked to an obvious spam site.
I checked further and two other people had been hijacked, Dearest Pelf and Roger(who ironically, was on the list from his comments about spam comments).
It seems that the Top Commentators plugin remembers the last URL used for a commentator and displays that as an anchor for their name,(it used to use the most used url, don’t know why they changed it) even after deleting and spaminating the spammers url and ip into the blacklist they still showed on the displayed list so I have decided to remove the Top Commentators plugin for now.
I noticed something was up the other day when I received a comment from WitchyPoo but it didn’t look like her normal way of writing and it didn’t have a last blog post (from CommentLuv), the comment made mention of something in the post and the spammer came back to respond to my follow up comment. I just changed the url back to Witchypoos’ site and thought nothing of it.
I have even noticed certain spammers now following links on to other peoples blogs from here and doing the same thing to others.
Be aware of this, look out for comments coming from your regular commentators and make sure they have the correct url or install CommentLuv and look out for comments without a last blog post.
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