Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Andy Bailey
This is a wonderful talk by Elizabeth Gilbert of “Eat Pray Love” #1 best seller fame. She talks about genius and a different way of looking at it (or, an older way of looking at it). I can’t tell you how nice it was to hear someone else explain something I’ve felt myself. How you [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Andy Bailey
phew, I have managed to get back to the pc after a little while away and just in time (well, close) to announce the winners of the PacktPub contest.
All someone had to do was visit the PacktPub website and choose a book they want to win, link to it in the comments and post about [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
The Contest did start and after my host managed to kill a nasty process eating thingy on the server, we have our first winner!
Witchypoo not content with winning the sneaky quick contest has continued rampaging through the contest blogs and leaving great comments, she ends up back here and wins again!
Look how the win appears [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
I spent the entire day (minus a 2 hour trip to the haberdashery <- don’t ask!) coding the final pages and scripts for the contest. I have the prizes up and descriptions entered. I was originally going to do 1 gadget per day for a whole month but I neglected to work in how much [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
I’m doing some testing with live data for the CommentLuv contest, there may be some extra bits added on the end of the pull down box for debug info for qualified commenters (those with a CommentLuv account and profile entered).
While it’s doing it’s thing so I can see the stats of how many and where [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
A huge thanks to all those that voted for CommentLuv in the WPMU plugin contest. CommentLuv won the peoples choice awards!
US$250 from the team at Bloglo.co.il
US$100 fromTrent Adams
WPMU DEV Premium yearly account
In the spirit of the way CommentLuv gives something back to the blogs community members, I have decided to use most of the [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
Congratulations to Yan from thoushallblog.com for winning the 100$ contest for the beta testers!!
He qualified by being a beta tester who provided feedback on the new version when it came out and leaving a comment on the contest post. He was allocated some numbers and if one of them matched the bonus number drawn on [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Andy Bailey
CommentLuv is now released to the Codex and is officially at final version 2.1. All beta testers need to upgrade their beta plugins because the remote files have changed…
Here’s a list of all the beta testers who helped get CommentLuv to version 2.1 and their allocated numbers for entry into the contest to win the [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
What I need
I need some help to get CommentLuv through it’s last hoop before I can release it to the world at large and my deadline for that is 25th September 2008 - the last day to enter a plugin for the Wordpress MU Plugin Contest
That’s where (I hope) you come in. I have the [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Andy Bailey
The Euromillions rolls over for another week! Now it is up to 100 Million Euros.
Celebrate this madness by entering the free contest here, you could win a great prize!
Read this post to find out how to become a millionaire by matching just 5 main numbers on the Euromillions…
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