tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635- 2008-07-02T20:25:31Z Comments for Winner of ETech Caption Contest Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635 2007-03-23T20:18:40Z 2007-12-16T23:11:16Z Winner of ETech Caption Contest Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com We had a great response to the ETech Caption Contest, with the winner receiving a free ticket to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference next week - March 26-29, in San Diego. And the winner is... [drum roll] Kevin Jones, with this caption:

"You navigated through Vista's new security and accessed MySpace! Good job!"

Congratulations Kevin, you've won a free pass to ETech, enabling you to attend the Tuesday-Thursday sessions. I'll be in touch with more details.

Some other entries I liked:

"Act calm honey ... he won't bite as long as you don't open Google ..."
by Chen

"A gleeful Bill Gates unveils the new "Tickle Me Ballmer" to the delight of fans both young and old."
by Andy

"mommie, what does "welcome to the social" mean?"
by ryan

"Yea! We finally found some folks who love our software!"
by Joshua Porter [who I happen to know is an Apple fan!]

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"You navigated through Vista's new security and accessed MySpace! Good job!"

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30717 Comment from Adam Jusko on 2007-03-23 Adam Jusko http://www.bessed.com No offense to your winner, but I think Andy got robbed.

]]> 2007-03-23T20:50:25Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30718 Comment from Harold Jarche on 2007-03-23 Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com They're all good, but you picked the winner. Now, if the rest of us could only do the same thing ...

]]> 2007-03-23T22:18:15Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30719 Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-03-23 Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Harold, do you mean enable the readers to pick a winner? If I can work out a good way to do that, it's a great idea. Maybe do a quick poll.... any other suggestions?

]]> 2007-03-23T22:32:48Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30720 Comment from Andy on 2007-03-23 Andy Adam, your comment made my day :) Thanks

]]> 2007-03-24T04:32:06Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30721 Comment from John Doe on 2007-03-24 John Doe Dude, I totally forgot about this and I am in southern California, doh!

Congrats to the winner though.

My caption would have been:

"Repeat after me kids, open source is bad, genuine is better, and DRM will keep you safe .. now who wants to trade their ipod in for a ZUNE!"

ZUNE ZUNE ZOOM

]]> 2007-03-24T08:22:47Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30722 Comment from Joshua Porter on 2007-03-26 Joshua Porter http://bokardo.com Awesome.

]]> 2007-03-26T14:33:04Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.3635-comment:30723 Comment from Harold Jarche on 2007-03-28 Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com Re: "Harold, do you mean enable the readers to pick a winner? If I can work out a good way to do that, it's a great idea. Maybe do a quick poll.... any other suggestions?"

A poll is a good idea, but I was referring to the ability to navigate Vista's security controls ;-)

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