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Darren Rowse is running a Birthday Bash Giveaway in celebration of the ProBlogger.net blog’s three year birthday. Congratulations, Darren! Anyway he has acquired giveaway/prize contributions from sponsors of many prizes ranging in value from a few dollars to several thousand dollars. The giveaways are already underway and are happening fast, so you should head over [...]

One of my favorite blogs, Everybody Go To is giving away a funny t shirt every week in September. All you have to do to get into the drawings is write a blog about it. Head on over to the site for full details!

Have you ever wanted to develop a website that had some distinctly Windows characteristics to it? Have you ever wondered how you could get those nifty Explorer icons into a format you could use? Well, if you search on Google you’ll find plenty of tools that can do it all for you in one shot. [...]

Danny Tuppeny is running a giveaway contest on his blog. The prize? The NeverShutsUp.com domain. All you have to do is head over to the contest page and leave a comment.

I was trolling through Google’s blog search tonight when I happened upon a site that seemed a bit familiar. You know how sometimes you meet someone and it just feels as if you’ve known the person before? Well, I feel as if I’ve known this blog before.
DevDad.com is a blog written by a stay at [...]

I’ve been doing WordPress plugin development for a little while now. I finally got around to setting up a development environment for this purpose. I wanted to have all of the version 2 releases available for testing so I went to the WordPress site to see how many there were. Seventeen. Hmmm, this could take [...]

During Digg.com’s downtime today the new site design was accidentally leaked. Mashable.com has the story:

Is this the new Digg design Kevin Rose has been talking about? (Click for larger image). It certainly includes the features that have been mentioned, like an “All” tab to view all media on the site. Still no photo section, though.
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Most of us have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes an example is worth a thousand words. Examples are like pictures in that they give a clear and visible snapshot of something that you are talking about. I am a software engineer and so I blog about programming on occasion. [...]

I just had this spam comment come across and it breezed by the Akismet filter. Thankfully I have the moderation (human element) filter engaged as well, but this was a funny one so I thought I’d post it.
Hey Everybody!
I’ve been lurking for awhile but this is a really cool forum so I decided to [...]

The Everybody Go To blog hosted a giveaway of a signed USB Drink Cooler and a cool USB Desk Lamp back at the end of July. The winner was announced on July 29th… and it was me! I got the goods in and have finally gotten around to getting a few snapshots of them. Sorry [...]