Friday - September 17, 2004

Let’s Have A Contest! Yay!

If you’ll check the SiteMeter at the bottom of the right sidebar, you’ll see that we’re about to go over 100,000 (yep, we’re almost actually in six figures finally) after nine months of blogging. No jokes about being in labor, OK?

We wanted to have a contest and award a prize but we may be too late for the 100,000 mark, which we should pass sometime tonight. So Vilmar decided to have a guessing game. We will let everyone guess when we’ll pass 102,000 and the person who guesses the closest gets a special prize ....

The winner will be moved to a new group on the blog site’s security settings. While in this new group, the lucky winner will be allowed to PUBLISH on this blog site. That’s right! The winner gets to publish regular posts just like Vilmar and I do. We will have to limit it to TEN posts by the winner ‘cause Vilmar and I jealously guard this blog from brain-dead splodydopes. We will provide the winner complete instructions on how to post (It’s REALLY easy!) and turn him or her loose on you all.

Who knows? We may let other members post occasionally if there is enough interest. As for the post below from “Ronald Reagan”, I was setting up the new security group and settings when suddenly my hair stood on end and the room here got real cold .... there was a swirl of wind around my keyboard and before I knew it the “Gipper” had slipped in. We kinda like having him back. He may appear again. You never know.

So, starting RIGHT NOW, leave your comment as to when you think we’ll pass 102,000 on this post. Hint: click on the SiteMeter icon and take a look at the “daily traffic” and averages for the last week and month - that will help you make a good guess.

Good Luck!

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/17/2004 at 05:59 PM   
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