Don’t be sad. How’s a $500 Treat Sound?

It’s no trick. It’s BadEvan and an Entrecard competition for Halloween…

BadEvan’s Halloween Costume Contest with the support of BuyCostumes who put up the prize money for the event after reading BadEvan’s Costume Review (one of the most entertaining reviews I’ve read btw and worth a read) are giving you the chance to win:

$500 Cold Hard Cash

Alright now all you need to know is HOW TO WIN:

Step 1 - Get yourself into a costume. Check out BuyCostumes for lots of quality choice and great prices.

Step 2 - Take a picture (No nudity and the file size should be no larger than 1MB)

Step 3 - Email it to: costumes@badevan.com before November 3rd

Step 4 - Optional but advisable - visit the judges and attempt to influence their decision:

Wisdom Hypnosis
Ken Armstrong
Canucklehead
FragileHeart
Odd Vantage
PhoneSexLife
Diet Pulpit
MTMD

The entry with the most votes from the judging panel will be the winner!

So you’re not into dressing up? What the hell is wrong with you?

Ok you know what’s coming…. you can still win by blogging…

Draw attention to this smashing contest by writing about it on your blog you’ll be entered into the draw to win: $250, 5000 EC and a 125 x 125 Ad on BadEvan.com. You can find out more HERE

PS - For those of you who visit this blog for any web hosting reasons (what the hell is wrong with you?) you will be pleased to know I’ll not be venturing this far into the underbelly of off-topic anymore…I will start another blog for these types of things sometime in the near future.

From next week, cPanel tutorials and tips will be posted regularly, along with domaining and Synchronicity news and fascinating “as I learn it” WordPress stuff.

On this particular occassion I just couldn’t resist - I had this lovely photo to use … and well come on $250 would be great. I need some new jeans, I really need WordPress for Dummies, A healthier Adwords account would help me no end. A Melbourne Cup lunch, well that would just be indulging, but I do deserve it.

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It’s about time I updated you all on my Forum Infidelity.

I did not confess my sins. I did not beg forgiveness.

I have, however returned to my favourite forum. Somewhat meekly at first, then with all the gusto and passion common to the guilty.

It would seem that the shiny newness of other forums and friendships with forum members outside the forum walls has worn a little; the situation has cooled.

My original post was tongue in cheek, I didn’t really feel terribly guilty about beoming addicted to forums or “cheating on the forum” with other forum members.

Because of the post - despite all it’s silliness, I have discovered something interesting.

People are searching for information about cheating online or online infidelity in numbers I was both surprised and saddened by. To a lesser extent they are searching for Australian Forums (so I will add a link with a list of some that I know of below) but mostly I am interested in exploring the idea of online infidelity.

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I am an EntreCard undesirable. I think I am as qualified as anyone to comment on why Entrecard sucks as I am a big part of the cause.

My blog is commercial, it is largely uninteresting when on topic and only occassionally, somewhat interesting when off topic and is updated once a week at best.

I am a loyal reciprocal dropper - if the lowest quality blog imaginable (short of the completely immoral - which would not be allowed on Entrecard anyway) drops on me I will drop back.

Most days I drop and run.

I now drop the maximum cards everyday and in that time am in and out as fast as possible.

Am I the reason Entrecard sucks?

Lets consider me some more shall we?

When I drop and run, I regularly, accidentally miss the mark and hit ads.

When I drop I have to keep my eyes open and I can not help but notice posts of interest.

On the 1 in 5 days I don’t drop and run - I comment on some of the interesting posts I’ve seen through the week and stumble a few here and there too.

I have found some really great blogs through Entrecard I would never have found otherwise and am actually genuinely grateful for that, especailly the following:

Aussie Cynic

Imaginif

I have become completely addicted to

Marge & Edna’s Basement

Caledonian Comment

History’s Mystery’s (sadly, recently departed)

Others I love to check in on:

Splinters

Paperkraft

Words Words Words

Uncommon Photographers

The Junk Drawer

Google Stalking

I’m not beautiful like you

Rants, Thoughts and Other Things

As well as at least half a dozen others ( I choose to highlight these as they are examples of the blogs that I would NEVER HAVE FOUND otherwise)  some of these I don’t drop on; beacuse I am a reciprocal dropper and some of these bloggers are either more popular or discerning than me (fine either way) but I still make the effort to go find them at least once a week.

And I wouldn’t have room to list all the blogs that I am learning things about Wordpress and Plugins and SEO from (massive amount of room for improvement noted - no idea what I’ve done with these font/default settings atm).

Now just one more point - there are masses of blogs I drop on and have never commented on and barely read despite the fact I am dropping there everyday like

Drupal Developer in Jakarta

Now, yes this is timely because I happen to be planning a Drupal Project and do you know what I first thought when I realised I’d be needing a lot of work done?

I should contact Drupal Developer in Jakarta. My first correspondence is sure to include are you on elance? Can we discuss a possible project?

On a similar note - A blog involving Professional Counselling & Child Protection is for sale and I’m planning to discuss it as a possible venture for my mother when she visits this weekend though she is not a counsellor and may not be interested - who knows?

So next time you look at your Bounce Stats think of me - I am surely contributing to those depressing figures, but so much more is happening in that 27 seconds than can be reported in a statistic.

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