Posted on 02 April 2008, at 5:00 pm, by Judie Lipsett
Check your email to see if you got a little something from me regarding Contest Interruptus; but here is the list of winners. Interested in hearing how they were picked? It was pretty scientific - read on…
Wordpress assigns a number to comments under every post when you are viewing them in the admin panel, so the easiest way to pick winners was to do it randomly based on their posting number. As you will recall, each person had three chances to win with up to three entries, and amazingly enough - we did have a double winner.
I was in an IM chat with Chris Leckness, and I asked him to pick a random number between 1 and 103. He chose 57, which happened to be mikekarr, the winner of the O2 Atom Life. I then asked Jerry to do the same, and he chose 76, crloga1 to be the winner of the HTC Touch Dual.
Amazon gift certificates were chosen in rapid succession by Jerry shooting off eight random numbers between1 and 103. The winners of the $25 gift certificates are as follows: 17 - Brandon (aka netsyd), 28 - Dave P, 20 - mikekarr, 103 - tabi13, 62 - Elodie, 33 - rcf2, 99 - fromamerica, and 95 - datahoss.
I need to hear back from all winners with their mailing addresses; depending upon how speedy you are, I should have everything out by Monday.
Thank you to all who entered, we will have another huge giveaway soon. ![]()
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Very scientific, but fair. Rats.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
are you going to post what photos you liked? I liked the camera taking a picture of itself. Pretty creative.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
btw, congrats to the winners
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Thanks. Great to get a mail that says “you are a winner”…
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I am planning to do a massive post of all of the entries, hopefully later tonight - they were fab!! I see that great minds think alike.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Yeah I would LOVE to see the picture I took posted here cuz it has not yet showed up under the “geardiarycontest” tag but the entry is there in the contest (entry no. 103) and has also been tagged with geardiarycontest.
I think youtube has some kinda of moderating policy due to which it takes some time before the pictures shows up under a particular collection tag
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
edit: I dont know why I said youtube. I meant Flickr
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Congratulations to all the winners!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 am
thank you thank you thank you for funding my love of punk boots! -giggles-
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 am
tabi13 - Did you get my email? I am still waiting for your address.