Five years of blogging giveaway
I never thought I’d keep anything up for this long but today is the 5th anniversary of this blog!
That comes to 383 posts (or an average of about 1.4 posts a week), 1482 comments/trackbacks and some 65.188 pieces of spam. Back in 1994 I had about 360 hits a month whereas now its grown to an average of 15.000.
To mark this occassion I figured I’d do a little giveaway, prizes include:
- 2 5 tickets for the <head> global web conference (donated by Aral Balkan)
- 1 one year pass to the Lynda.com Online Training Library® (donated by Lynda.com)
Still talking to some other companies, more to come!
To participate, all you have to leave is a video comment on this post using the new Seesmic video comment feature I’ve recently installed.
Anything goes, feel free to talk about what you like about this blog, where there’s room for improvement, heck you can even sing a song or tell a joke. Bonus points for creativity!
Next week, September 21st I’ll post a short list of my favorite video comments and will put up a poll so the community can vote on the winners. The winners will then be announced on Friday September 26th!
Good luck and have fun!
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Congrats Peter!
Congrats in first place
I must say, this is quite a cool way of giving away prizes
I’ll give it a try later on
Congrats Pet and a big thank you for what you are doing.
This blog doesn’t need any improvement just keep blogging!
Cheers to the next five!
Congrats Peter! My 5 year bloggiversary is coming up in November I think. Time flies!
Hey Peter,
Happy 5th anniversary!
And since it’s your fifth, let’s give away _five_ tickets for <head> to celebrate 
Happy 5th bloggin anniversary Peter. Hope you liked doing it and had fun watching it grow!
My first year anniversary is coming soon and your blog is one the reasons people made it to mine, thanks to some crossposts you made, being interested in mobile as well.
I hope to keep creating or doing things that make it on peterelst.com!
See you in Ghent!
Thomas
Thanks for the kind words everyone, and especially Aral for the extra tickets to give away!
Congrats!
Congratulations, Peter.
Hurray for my favourite brother!
Congrats Peter. Thanks for all your contributions. I’ve appreciated your blog and it was great meeting you at last year’s FotB.
Congrats!
Congratz Petah!
Hey Ronny nice video.
Way better than mine
Pet sorry for not being so creative…
International Flash
Thanks for the great videos guys! Since Savvas already has a ticket for the <head> conference he kindly suggested to give it to next person — so congratulations Ronny!
You all are obviously still in the running for the other prizes, which now also includes a license for FDT 3.1 Enterprise!
5th blogging birthday
hilarious Jamie, thanks for taking part!
Dawg
OMG Jamie. A librarian and a master of attributes right there!
Thanks again, Peter.
Also thanks to Savvas for being so kind!
This video comment thing really intrigues me ^^
Tribute to Peter
woohoo, nice job bro you rock! — thanks for the video comment
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import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.community.PeterElst;
import earth.internet.notAccordingtoiPhoneInternet;
public class Peter extends Community
{
private var peter:PeterElst;
private var latitude:Number = 50.30;
private var longitute:Number = 4.28;
private var inspiration:Boolean;
private var inspiration:Boolean;
public function PeterElst()
{
init();
}
private function init():void
{
peter = new Peter();
if(peter.blogging || peter.tweeting || peter.isPrototypeOf(flashCommunity))
{
inspiration = true;
happiness = true;
} else {
var bitData:Bitmap = new BitmapData(searchForPeter(latitude, longitute));
var pet:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bitData);
var flashWorld:notAccordingtoiPhoneInternet = new notAccordingtoiPhoneInternet();
flashWorld.addChild(pet);
}
trace(”HAPPY ANNIVERSARY PETER!”);
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}
Since the Macrophone (har har) only has limited amounts of brilliantness, I thought I’d upload the lyrics. So you know what I’m singing and it’s always an interesting experiment to see what Google will do with it
5 years of reviews
opinions and tools
5 years of stopping us
looking like fools
5 years of keeping
us all up to date
what’s new what’s not
and what food you ate
5 years of podcasting,
twitters and whales
5 years of really
strong technical tales
5 years of telling
the world you’re my bro
5 years of hearing
that they did not know
Congratulations
Keep up the good work
Don’t mind if I don’t write
you know I will lurk
5 years of blogging
on adobe flash
5 years of kicking
some serious —