It’s Sunday night and in my time zone it’s past midnight. That means that my competition to win $100 is over. Unfortunately not enough people entered my contest so I had to reduce the prize to a pack of toothpicks. Only kidding! The winner will receive a full $100 in real money.

I put the names of everybody who entered into an Excel file and whizzed my mouse around with my eyes closed to select a winner. The first couple of times the pointer kind of ended up off the screen on the right-hand side. After calming my movements for another try, I finally landed on someone’s name. The winner of my contest is:

Ashwin Khanna

No, that’s a joke as well. The real winner is:

Becky from Pre Blogging

Although she thought the competition actually ended five weeks ago, it ended today and she has won. This means that I have to send her $100 by Paypal now, so Becky, send me your address. It also means that Becky now has a permanent link in my sidebar, and I will write a full review of her blog within the next week.

If you didn’t win the competition and would like a consolation prize, subscribe to my RSS feed for daily Angel.

In other blog news, John Cow has put a big question mark over Tyler Cruz’s head. Tyler is alleged to be trying to scheme people out of money by offering to act as a middle man between a designer and clients.

What I would say is that in situations like this, it always pays to wait for a response from the accused before you choose whose side you’re on. I’m waiting for Tyler’s comeback with interest.

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I don’t like being opted into anything – be it mailing lists, updates, newsletters, promotional offers – without being explicitly told beforehand. If I want to sign up for something then it should be through my own actions. Receiving an email the first time you leave a comment on a blog is a minor annoyance, but I draw the line at being signed up for the comments on a post automatically.

It happens on about half of the blogs I leave comments on. It doesn’t happen on all of them, so I rarely look to see if there check-box is selected that would subscribe me to the entry. Please, bloggers, set your comments up so that people only subscribe to an entry through their own actions. It’s annoying to log into your email account and find dozens of emails, one each for the latest comment left in an entry you ended up signed up for.

Sometimes I want to receive updates by email, but those are the times when I will check the box myself. Otherwise, it’s as good as spamming your readers, especially on posts that attract a lot of comments.

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Even more important than the Million Euro Wiki debate is my $100 gievaway. Yes, it may not be the huge amounts of money other people are giving away, but it’s coming out of my pocket so you can’t complain. All the details are here on my competition page. You have until Sunday to enter, at which point I’ll draw somebody at random to give myself something to blog about that has nothing to do with wikis or aggressive sales pitches – at last!

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