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Official contest announcement

OK - it's official. I'm announcing the:

2004 Semi-Annual One-Time-Only Neopoleon.com "Get Your Grubby Little Hands On a Copy of VS.NET 2003 Special Edition" Contest

This is your (yes! your!) chance to win a copy of the new flavor of Visual Studio.NET 2003 (a $749.00 value) which includes:

- Windows Server 2003 - Licensed for development and test

- SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition

- Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office

- MCAD/MCSE training eBooks

- A voucher for 50% off a certification test

I predict (yes! I!) that, in the near future, only LOSERS and DRUG LORDS will be working without this kick-ass product.

Official Contest Rules

1. If you work for Microsoft, then you may not enter. Sorry (hey - you get this crap for free already!).

2. If you like mushrooms and/or squash, then I think you're weird, but you can still enter. Also, I don't like pork, but you might, and I guess that's OK.

3. One entry per person. If you submit multiple entries (and I'll have fancy-shmancy TECHNOLOGICAL CRIME DETECTORS in place to watch this), I'll totally disqualify you. If you "accidentally" submit more than one entry, then you may contact me, fess up, and I'll set everything straight (honesty pays, you lying BASTARD).

4. If you tell your friends about Neopoleon.com, then you're cool. This isn't actually a rule, but it should be.

5. These rules are subject to change whenever it suits my fancy.

Official Contest Instructions

There will be three (3) questions that you will have to answer in order to complete your contest entry.

The form that you'll need in order to provide the answers to these three (3) questions will be posted to this site on Friday, October 15th, 2004.

One question will be posted on Monday, October 11, 2004.

One question will be posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2004.

One question will be posted on Friday, October 15, 2004.

All forms with correct answers will be entered into a drawing. One (1) winner will be selected from this pool of entrants at random.

The drawing will take place on Friday, October 22nd, 2004. The winner will be notified by email and embarrassed publicly by way of announcement on this site.

Other Official Contest Hoobydoo

In putting this contest together, my main goal was to raise awareness of the MSDN Events team of which I constitute one small part. This means that the contest questions will be focused on information related to my team.

If you think this is basically just a marketing ploy, then you can BET YOUR ASS IT IS. Hell, YEAH.

Our team doesn't have access to the traditional marketing means that some other teams have, so we have to be "creative." It even said that on the job application. It was like all, "You have to be creative." I was like all, "Crap."

So, as you work through this, some of you might get the feeling that there's an agenda behind this contest. While there definitely is, this thing was my idea, and nobody at Microsoft is pushing me to do it. I am operating for my team, but independently of The Machine. I know what it's like to be a developer exposed to marketing, and I want to be really up front with all of you that that's basically what this is.

However, somebody is still going to win some cool software, and if all goes well, it's going to be a hell of a lot easier for me to hold contests like this in the future. Nothing would please me more, as I have a few thousand people (YOU) to thank for the success of this stupid site, and it'd be nice to be able to give back occasionally.

That's it

Yeah. Like, wait until Monday and stuff.

Oh, and tell your friends about this. It will lower your chances of winning, but if a whole bunch of people enter this contest, then I might get a bigger bonus at the end of the year or something.

If you do decide that you want to tell your friends, the easiest way will be with this banner - just copy and paste the HTML to get this to show up on your site:

Thanks (you freeloading scumbuckets).

After Blog Mint [?] :

Rick has emerged from a blogging hiatus with one fabulously strong post on what to do when you discover that your wife is cheating on you, and then follows up with a new series called "Hey Mort" in which he's taken it upon himself to solve the world's problems. Check out the first one here, the second one here, and the third (and also my favorite) here.

Very good stuff.

Published Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:14 PM by Rory

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Michael Russell said:

Well, I'm not going to enter, since I already have VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Architect, but I'm letting my pathetically small amount of readers know.

http://romsteady.blogspot.com/2004/10/dont-have-vsnet-2003-try-this-one.html
October 6, 2004 8:12 PM
 

Vincent Vega said:

> Also, I don't like pork, but you might, and I guess that's OK.

But bacon tastes goood -- porkchops taste goood.
October 6, 2004 8:39 PM
 

blameMike said:

Yeah Rory!
October 6, 2004 8:53 PM
 

Dan F said:

Can us upside down aussies enter?
October 6, 2004 11:15 PM
 

Rory said:

Dan F -

"Can us upside down aussies enter?"

It would be *my pleasure* if you and your people entered the contest.
October 6, 2004 11:32 PM
 

Nursey said:

Dude! You have a big heart, to be giving away free product that is about to go out of date (as soon as those slack arses on the Whidbey team get their act together). Also, consider that everybody that reads this stuff probably works in there bedroom with a copy of VS.NET burned from their eMule, which took them 21 weeks to download and cost them $2,500, because they exceed their download limits, and oh yeh, and I will be having a competition which is immensley more valuable...You can win (yes, make no mistake, YOU CAN WIN) a copy of MSDOS3.1 complete with architects edition of QuickBasic, and free book titles from AMAZingthONg.Com including, Idiots guide to winning Blog Competitions, Enterprise Patters with Turbo Pascal and BizTalk 2004, WTF does it do and who will use it!

Bye mate!
October 7, 2004 3:23 AM
 

Rory said:

Nursey -

"Dude! You have a big heart, to be giving away free product that is about to go out of date"

This copy of VS.NET will still be good for a while. 2005 is slated to ship "sometime" in the first half of 2005, and that gives plenty of life to this product.

In addition, you'd be surprised how many people *don't* have a copy of 2003, and who *would* like to win one.

The alternative, of course, would be to simply not have a contest at all, which would please people like you, but screw the others.

Anyway, I'll be sure to note your attitude for when I *do* start giving away copies of 2005 ;)
October 7, 2004 4:10 AM
 

John Hartman said:

You friendly neighborhood sys admin/programmer here…(we worked at Hollywood at the same time in a different life). Thanks for the chow after PADNUG. I would love another copy of VS.NET and all the source code you have on Mono as well. What I am really looking for though is the real deal no nonsense low down on the Longhorn. Rumor mill has it that they have really improved active desktop ;) we are not Borg we are Orwell.
October 7, 2004 5:00 AM
 

Nursey said:

I was being humorous your highness 8-) I am sure my competition for an Enterprise Architects version of QuickBasic will be oversubscribed by tea time. You are probably much too young to know about QuickBasic and its powerful predecessor GW-BASIC. Get your mates to load up a copy, it was probably about 64kb or so in size, loaded in .0003 seconds and you could do some ace block graphics with it hahahaha, all good fun my friend.

>>This copy of VS.NET will still be good for a while. 2005 is slated to ship "sometime" in the first half of 2005, and that gives plenty of life to this product.

That's why I said ..."when they get their act together..."

Just focus on writing mate, you are so funny, I love your blog.

Leave the sarcasm and dry wit to me, I older and more bitter than you! ;-)
xxx
October 7, 2004 8:00 AM
 

Rory said:

Nursey -

"I was being humorous your highness 8-)"

Um... [feeling rather embarrassed right now].

It occurred to me after going off that this might have been the case, and it looks like my fears were not unfounded.

I *thought* it was strange that an Aussie would have been such a meanie :)

You have my most humblest apologies.

"You are probably much too young to know about QuickBasic"

QB 4.5 was one of my favorite development platforms ever, and the so-called "Basic 7.1," which was really just QB with some extra crap (the compiler was called QBX.EXE) found some room in my heart as well.

QBasic, on the other hand, never appealed to me...

"...and its powerful predecessor GW-BASIC"

I spent an entire summer doing nothing *but* GW-BASIC with my Tandy 1000 EX. If memory serves (all 384k of it at the time), I was running DOS 2.11, but I might be a little off there.

I enjoyed it, but it never captured my attention the way MS BASIC v1.0 did.

Or the Timex-Sinclair 1000 (upgraded to *2*k of ram, I might add).

Yeah - I might still be on the somewhat young side, but I've been a nerd since birth :)

"Leave the sarcasm and dry wit to me"

All right, all right :) Point taken.

I wasn't able to eat dinner tonight because I spent the entire evening with my foot in my mouth.

"I older and more bitter than you!"

*That* sounds like a challenge.

Anyway, sorry to have been so touchy.

You know - hormones and stuff like that. It's probably my time of the month (Cosmopolitan says guys have one, too).
October 7, 2004 8:19 AM
 

Benjimawoo said:

"I predict (yes! I!) that, in the near future, only LOSERS and DRUG LORDS will be working without this kick-ass product."

Hang on a minute, though...

I seem to remember a post a little earlier (one or another rants about 'hobbyist' programmers) you actually admitting that, since you no longer write code professionally, you (it could be argued) now are a 'hobbyist'. Following this train of thought, since you now code for fun, rather than money, you yourself dont 'work' with VS.NET any more. (go with me here...)

If don't 'work' with VS.NET, and you make your assertion about the near future, are you trying to cryptically tell us about a new field you're moving into? Have you already bought 'Teach Yourself Drug Lording in 21 Days' or 'Drug Lords Unleashed (2nd Ed.)'? Are we going to start seeing posts that begin 'Hi from Columbia!'

Or are you telling us that in the near future, you will become a loser?
October 7, 2004 9:14 AM
 

Julian Kay said:

Naughty Rory!! Next time you ask people to use your HTML, at least do it properly!!

<a href="http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/posts/8549.aspx"><img src="http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/images/contest_banner.gif" border="0" width="120" height="145" alt="I'm entering Rory's stupid contest, and I'm lowering my chances of winning by telling you about it, too - neopolieon.com" /></a>

(i hope this lets me write html like this in comments?)

October 7, 2004 9:47 AM
 

anonymouse said:

Do I have to use my real name?
October 7, 2004 12:17 PM
 

Rory said:

anonymouse -

"Do I have to use my real name?"

*You* don't :)

You'll have to use your (or *a*) real address so that I can actually ship the thing to you, but I don't care if I have to write something like:

Mr. (or Mrs.) Anonymouse
1111 Sw. Something St.
SomeCity, SomeState, 90001
October 7, 2004 5:28 PM
 

Rory said:

Benjimawoo -

"since you no longer write code professionally"

I've actually learned since then that's a requirement of my job that I continue to code in real world situations.

So I will be neither a drug lord, nor a loser, although I honestly don't think it'd be so bad being a drug lord.
October 7, 2004 5:29 PM
 

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October 8, 2004 12:29 AM
 

Frank said:

So, when's Visual Studio 2003: The SuperFly Edition Coming out? I want my spinning rims!
October 8, 2004 3:21 PM
 

Nursey said:

>> You know - hormones and stuff like that. It's probably my time of the month (Cosmopolitan says guys have one, too).

My wife often leaves Cosmopolitan open in the loo, strategically positioned on a page such as "How to get your guy to be more sensitive", that's really nice of her, coz when we run out of bog paper I have something to wipe my arse on, except the paper is really shiney and it gets messy!

Bon champs with your compie mate. Nice thought. Keep on blogging good bouddie, 10-10 til we do it again!
October 12, 2004 8:24 AM
 

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October 6, 2004 8:45 PM
 

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October 6, 2004 8:51 PM
 

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