And the Winner Is…
Posted on 16 February 2007, at 6:10 pm, by Judie Lipsett
Mitchell has stuck his hand into the hat and drawn a winner from the qualifying entries, and the Astraware VIP Card goes to Dianna, or “parelle” as she is known here.
For those that were wondering, here is the correct and complete list of bloggers:
1. This is Matthew Miller, aka palmsolo; he can be found on The Mobile Gadgeteer and at Geek.com. He is also a former rugby player that now designs ships. Matt can eat a humongous steak, all of the trimmings, and dessert without gaining a pound. It’s sickening, I tell you! 
2. This is Jason Dunn of Thoughts Media; he can he found at Pocket PC Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts, Digital Media Thoughts, Zune Thoughts, and The Two Inch View. I snapped this picture of him several years ago at a Mobius event, the email he sent asking where I got this picture was priceless. Muwahahaha!
3. This is Ed Hardy; he is a sweet, funny and incredibly easy to talk to geek. He can be found explaining it all at Brighthand.
4. This is Smithers, he doesn’t have any blog that I know of; he was thrown in as a placeholder and a freebie.
5. This is the vivacious Jenneth Orantia, my fellow Thai snake-handler and street bargainer extraordinaire (just ask Joel). She can be found at Girls Gone Mobile and occasionally here on Gear Diary. She also has a gig writing for the gadget section of FHM Magazine in her native Australia.
6. This is Nghia Nguyen Dai, who owns more Bathing Ape (BAPE) shirts than any other geek person I know. He can be found handling shiny gadgets and other tech goodies on PDA France and w3sh.
7. This is Joel Evans, who is commonly known as the Chief Geek of Geek.com. He is one of my oldest blogging friends, and has always been a great source of support and good times. 
8. Here’s Phillip Torrone of Make: Blog. I used an OLD Mobius picture hoping it would throw you all off – but he is still way too recognizable. 
9. This is Eric Lin of PhoneScoop, who even in this fuzzy 2002 picture was still easily recognized by his gauged ears! Gah!
10. This is the famous Andrew Shuttleworth, who can be found at Andrew Shuttleworth Web HQ and Pocket PC Japan. He will forever be known as ”that guy that jumped in the pool for an HTC Hermes at Mobius Thailand.”
11. This is Jeremy Toeman, who I first met while he was the Vice President of Marketing Development for Sling Media. He is a very entertaining tech blogger, he writes great reviews, and he generously shares his “behind the scenes” insider’s view of the tech industry in general at his site LIVEdigitally.
12. Vincent Nguyen, of Aradius Media Network, was also immediately recognizable to Gear Diary readers. He can regularly be found geeking out at MYiPhone, SlashGear, and Unbox.IT.
13. Almost everyone knew that this was Pete Rojas of Engadget; he does have an easy to remember face.
14. This is Bjorn Stromberg, who can be found at UltraMobileLife.com. Come to think about it, I am still waiting to hear from him about a Q1b. Hmmm…
15. You’ll never know how hard it was to find a picture of Brian Lam, the elusive force behind Gizmodo. I haven’t ever met him personally, so I had to scour the web for a picture. Luckily he had posed for a Time article on “The Coolest Bloggers“ last year, so I was able to lift the pic.
16. This is the lovely Nandini Maheshwari of Instablogs Network. She is the diva behind Born Rich, and I count her as a dear friend.
17. No, this is not Uncle Fester! It’s Chris Leckness, my favorite redneck tech geek, who can be found at Chris Leckness is a Geek and Mobility Site. I know it wasn’t fair to use this picture (taken when he was in the Navy), but I figured it would be harder to recognize than this one.
18. Here’s someone that needs no introduction, it’s Julie Strietelmeier, aka The Gadgeteer.
19. Ryan Block is an integral part of the Engadget Team, yet almost no one recognized him…how is that possible?
20. Anyone that loves their mobile phone should recognize Paul O’Brien from MoDaCo.
And as a BONUS: This is my French friend G-A (Alex) Gay, who also goes by Daimaou. He can be found writing about cool new gadgets at Akihabara News, and he can be seen driving like a maniac at Nihon Car.
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5 Comments For This Post
February 16th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Congrats!
February 16th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Stay tuned for info on our biggest give-away yet. Hopefully I’ll have it ready to post tomorrow.
February 17th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Congrats to the winner. This was a tough one. I could only name 5 on the that list.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Congrats, Dianna.
February 17th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Thank you!