11 July 2008
Categorised as Site-Related & tagged with competition.
Lucy! The correct number was 712. Plugs to Shen-Shen too for getting the answer 12 minutes after Lucy. 
And no one else managed to read my mind. 
(For those who missed it, I’m referring to the Winter Competition 2008.)
The numbers were on the pages History, ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ and Resources. Number 7 was apparently the hardest; or in other words, the males were especially hopeless at finding it.
What I found really funny was the number of page views on the day the competition was launched:
I know for a fact that the number was boosted so much thanks to a particular few males who failed to read paragraph 5 and ended up searching through my blog archives.
Note: they are not bolded together with other words e.g. “level 16″ is ok, but “level 6″ and “2006″ are not. They are also not part of headings, links or any of my blog entries.
Sigh. Males. Sigh.
(I use the great Clicky to track my site statistics!)
Well, this “thing” I’m giving to Lucy for a gift… She’d probably go all “WTF” at me because it’s really quite “wtf” for a person who’s spent a while finding numbers on my sitemap-less site. But once she receives it, she’s obligated to blog about it. So you’ll all see it then. Don’t worry Lucy, it’s not flavoured condoms. I promise.
5 July 2008
Categorised as Web-Related & tagged with firefox, lists.
Most of you would’ve seen blog recommendations of Firefox extensions anywhere and everywhere. And from anywhere and everywhere you would’ve heard of the all-time-famous Adblock Plus, Web Developer, FireFTP and so on; so there’s no need for me to redundantly talk about them again. In fact, most of the “famous” ones which I use can be found on my list from last year. And funnily enough, what I said from last year is true now:
If I haven’t had what I would call a decent level of self-control, this list would be doubled the length.
From last year’s 21 extensions, I now have exactly 41 dammit.
So this year I’m presenting a handful of extensions I love which (1) aren’t on my list from last year and (2) I don’t see in blog recommendations anywhere and everywhere. In alphabetical order:
- Codetch: I only installed this morning so I haven’t had the chance to test it out. But it’s a code editor with functions including validation, FTP, JavaScript debugging and what-not. It looks promising.
- FireGestures: having had Opera as my default browser for over a year before, mouse gestures has become second nature to me while browsing.
- FireShot: the most advanced screenshot-taking extension I’ve come across. Allows screenshots of selected areas, annotations and drawings. No less than “godly”.
- Full Fullscreen: clicking F11 used to keep the toolbar and tabs bar (I think). But now you get to use the entire screen. Used especially when taking full screenshots.
- Google Notebook: Firefox extension for Google Notebook. I use it to save code snippets or random notes.
- GooglePreview: adds thumbnails to Google and Yahoo search results. Useful to see if the websites look legitimate enough. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but hey, whatever.
- Picnik: easy for importing images into Picnik for quick editing. I really don’t like opening Photoshop just to resize or crop an image.
- Smart Bookmarks Bar: I have so many bookmarks in my bookmarks toolbar they just don’t fit in the “default way”. So I display them as favicons with title appearing on-hover. I find it easier to recognise sites by their favicons and it looks prettier that way too!
- Undo Closed Tabs Button: I just can’t stop clicking this button.
All the above are compatible with Firefox 3. Just shoot me if you have heard of all of them before from other people’s blogs because it would mean I have failed my purpose of introducing not-so-recommended extensions.
And if you haven’t already, check out Appassionato’s Winter Competition 2008!
3 July 2008
Categorised as Site-Related & tagged with competition.
Oh great. Short holidays. I’ve studied, I’ve partied; and as promised, here’s the Winter Competition 2008 (Winter where I am; idea from Amanda and Tracy). Make sure you read ALL the information below if you intend to enter!
What’s happening?
I’m thinking of a three-digit number. The first person to get the number wins (otherwise the first person to get closest to the number).
Note: close as in numerically close. If the number is 654, person getting 647 wins rather than 645.
Hints
The three individual digits in the number are bolded on random pages of this site. You’ll just have to rearrange the numbers to form your guess. Alternatively, you can just guess any three-digit number and ignore the hint.
Note: they are not bolded together with other words e.g. “level 16” is ok, but “level 6” and “2006” are not. They are also not part of headings, links or any of my blog entries.
You’ll need to…
- Submit a comment to this post with “Answer: ###” on a new line. You can write other comments but in a separate paragraph. And don’t reveal any of the pages with the hint number or you’ll be helping those after you!
- Submit the answer before 10 July 2008. No actual time. It’ll end whenever I check this post on 11 July 2008 (in NZ).
- Be ready to send me your actual postal address once you’re announced as the winner! I’ll contact the winner for this privately.
Note: One guess per person only and I advise that you don’t base your guess upon guesses in previous comments because of… *cough* obvious reasons (answers are hidden). And if you fail to find all the numbers, hey, it won’t hurt to submit a random guess answer anyway! ;)
Prize!
You’ll get this little… “thing” sent to your place. I absolutely adore them. They’re suitable for both genders and there are many different styles/colours to pick from. If you have a website, I’ll be picking one which I think matches you or your website the most. Otherwise I’ll just go by intuition based on your name, email and comment.
Alright I think that’s all. 3… 2… 1… and the competition starts! 
