…at least you’re doing it the healthy way. From b3ta.
Month: June 2004
Gmail Contest Winners
We had a tie for first place in my contest, and both folks linked to my site, getting them 25 points. I also had two people tied for 7th (and I agree to give out a Gmail invite for 7th) so I had a couple extra Gmail invites, so both of the first places will be getting three invites and both of the 7th place folks will be getting one. Here’s how the scoring for the invites rounded up:
- Hollie Rockwell: 25 Points 1st Place, Three Gmail Invites, All questions right plus link from her blog (which I’ve lost the link to, unfortunately — crap).
- Carson Monetti: 25 Points 1st Place, Three Gmail Invites, All questions right plus link from his blog.
- Bill R: 24 Points 3rd Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed one question, but got the link from his blog.
- Karen Martwick: 23 Points 4th Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed One Question.
- Brad McAlister: 22 Points 5th Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed Two Questions.
- Rick Mogstad: 20 Points 6th Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed Four Questions.
- Mark Turner: 19 Points 7th Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed Five Questions.
- Dave: 19 Points 7th Place, One Gmail Invite, Missed six questions, but linked from his blog.
There were about six more that entered that didn’t make the top seven. Thanks to everybody for playing, and you’ll be receiving your invites shortly at the e-mail addresses that you e-mailed me from.
The original contest page has been updated with the correct answers.
On another Jeopardy note, Ken Jennings has now won 18 matches in a row with $601,760.
Gmail Contest Deadline Coming Up
If you’re looking for a gmail account, you have until tomorrow (Sunday) at noon (Pacific Time) to enter my contest to win one or a few.
Advanced PDF Linking
Adding this here so I don’t have to bookmark, how to link to PDF files from Web pages covers all the various extensions you can send that will enable you to link directly to a specific page, destination, or set the zoom or view level in the link. Via MovableBlog’s Side Blog.
Bloggers are Smarter
“Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there — including many sites created by children. Children as young as seven in one British school are using weblogs as part of their normal routine, and are doing better than non-webloggers as a result, their teacher says.” Full Story. Link from Craig.
Internet 2 Will Deploy Ahead of Schedule
And Dave Winer has been put in charge of Internet v.1. Very entertaining read:
“Dave will own Internet 1, and all sites therein. Dave will immediately be granted root access to all servers, and will be allowed to decide who can be on his Internet, and what they will be allowed to say. As a provision of this grant, Dave understands that he not be allowed on Internet 2 at all.”
“It was all we could do”, Berners-Lee continued in an exclusive interview . “We’ve be trying to get rid of this guy longer than Bush has been hunting for Bin Laden, but he just won’t go away. We finally decided that we’d all just leave instead.”
Thanks to one of my readers (who didn’t give his name, and I’m not about share his email address) for the submission.
Another Reason to Hate AOL
It would appear that a simple AOL peon employee could get access to every single one of AOL’s screen names (about 92 million) and sell the list to spammers.
Gmail Invite “Jeopardy” Contest
Update on 6/27: The Contest Is Over! Thanks to all those who played! Answers are below. Winners have been sent invites.
OK, I’ve got 10 Gmail Invites to get rid of. You want ’em? Here’s the deal. I have one of those Jeopardy desk calendars that has a bunch of questions on it. I always forget about the calendar, and am always behind several days on turning pages on it.
So here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to run a trivia contest using questions from that calendar. Answers are to be submitted via e-mail to utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com.
Questions (or answers, since this is Jeopardy) are below. The category for the answers are in bold preceding the question. You get a point for answering a question right, and a bonus point if you link to this post on your blog (let me know via your answer e-mail if you’d linked, or send a TrackBack ping to this post).
The Deadline For Submissions is Sunday 6/27 @ Noon Pacific Time. Remember that all “answers” must be in the form of a question, or you won’t get the point. The winner will get three invites, second place gets two, and the other five to go to three, four, five, six and seventh place.
These are either Double or Final Jeopardy answers, so they’re not too easy (though you could probably find them on Google).
Update: If there’s a tie, I will send around a tie-breaker question — or 10 :-).
Drunken Fool Nukes Cat
Alcohol, pets, and microwaves do not mix.
Government Money Well Spent
Traffic officials has been assigned to count cars on a street — a deserted cul-de-sac.