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Gewinne, Gewinne?

by cimddwc · 2008-04-24

I’m hoping to win in two German blog raffles with this post…

Na hoffentlich! Denn anders als manche “Linktausch”-Angebote z.B. von Flirt- oder Schmuck-Websites, die hoffen, man schreibt wohlwollend über sie, macht sie bekannter (was natürlich auch die zahlreichen Gutschein-Blogs gut brauchen können) und bekommt dafür gerade mal einen Gegen-Link, haben Gewinnspiele eben den Vorteil, dass man auch was gewinnen kann…

Deshalb werde ich zum einem im Gewinnspiel von Gratis-Gutscheine.de ein MacBook Air gewinnen oder einen Amazon-Einkaufsgutschein (bis 30.6.) – und bei Bedarf auch z.B. einen 7,50€-Gutschein für Conrad einsetzen.

Zum anderen wartet ein “kleiner” Fernseher auf mich im Frühlings-Gewinnspiel von Der Gutschein-Blog * (oder einige andere Preise; bis 31.5.) – und wer DSL-Tarife vergleichen will, kann das mit diesem Link tun.

(Jep, die Teilnahmebedingungen wollen jeweils solche Links.)

Na denn, her mit den Gewinnen!

* Ja, liest sich in dieser Form komisch, aber der Artikel gehört eben zu Name und URL…

It’s (not) a long way from Tipperary

by cimddwc · 2008-04-23

4×50 Euro

Requested on April 3rd (with a regular letter), e-mail confirmation of receipt on 9th – and yesterday the money arrived on my account.

I’m talking about the Cashback campaign by Canon – which they handle in their Promotion Centre in Tipperary (Ireland), hence the title – for my new EOS 40D camera, and given several reports by others about periods of 6-8 or more weeks, I was quite surprised, in a positive way.

(Though it can’t balance the negative surprise caused by my tax bill, which also arrived yesterday, even remotely…)

Projekt 52 Week 16: Secret places

by cimddwc · 2008-04-17

The topic of week 16 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Secret places
[…in the childhood]

Well, I never had really secret placed – and I can’t shoot otherwise favorite places due tu the distance (assuming they’d still exist, anyway). So I had to think about something else:

Week 16: Secret places

A mysterious question mark in the dark, illuminated by a torch light – symbolic for all secret things you might want to keep secret in secret places after you reached these in mysterious ways…

(By the way, I also tried this with a (printed) treasure map, but I didn’t like it that good.)

Projekt 52 week 15: Food presentation

by cimddwc · 2008-04-09

The topic of week 15 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

Food presentation

Alright, Sari’s description mentions “something edible”, but, well, juice somewhat belongs to the food category, too, and I liked the idea of such a snapshot:

Week 15: Food presentation

A glass being filled with orange juice… in bright sunlight with the bottleneck’s shadow in the background.

Exposure time: 1/3200s

Links of the Week (2008/14)

by cimddwc · 2008-04-06

Worth listening to: Do you hear the difference between 128 and 320 kbps MP3 music? I had no chance on my notebook, but on the real PC with proper speakers, it worked out well… (via Dave).
Worth reading: “Bacn”: Comment trash in the grey area between spam and ham (German; via Dia-Blog).
Worth knowing: Astrologie, Astronomie und die Logik – complete first chapter of the German book Aberglaube und Astrologie.
Worth looking at: Cartoon about the problem that support is always supposed to work via phone… (engl., from the same author as “Scissors help copyright violation and must be forbidden” back in December; via meckator).
Worth counting: Funny feed subscriber counters (via Prinzzess).

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