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I’m one of the many blogs that wishes you a happy new year today

My all your wishes come true!

A few months back I announced to drop Entrecard for different kind of reasons.
I promised to drop it with style, so the blog that advertised the most times on this blog would get all my remaining Entrecard credits that I have in my account today.

Well I’m glad that I have 2 winners, Isker from Isker Blog and WebbieStuff from Webbiestuffs.

Congratz and thx for advertising.

I hope you’re both kind enough to leave a little comment here

Happy 2009 !!!!

O, before I forget, a special thank you to the whole Entrecard community, it’s been a great year with you guys and girls, but I’m sure we’ll see each other again soon PS: I’ve officially removed the Endtrecard widget now

After almost 1 year of displaying the Entrecard widget on this blog, I’ve decided to dump it.
But because I had so much fun on Entrecard, I’m going to dump it in style.
First of all I would like to thank the people who advertised their image on my Entrecard Widget.
Secondly a special thanks to all the nice people I’ve met due to Entrecard.
Graham, you’ve came up with a great idea and made a great site around it, congratz man!

But the real reason why I’m dropping it is the change in the advertising costs. Before you could have the possibility to advertise on any blog you want. True, you can do it now also, but it’s much harder due to the high costs.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to say that premier blogs should be rewarded for displaying links to smaller blogs, but there could have been better ways than after the sudden change in the reward system.

To me the fun of being active on Entrecard was gone. I did keep displaying the widget, but I knew back then that I wasn’t going to stay on Entrecard if nothing should change.
Now my mind’s made up and it’s time to leave. But as I’ve said before, I’m going in style.
From the time I stopped advertising on other blogs till now, I’ve managed to get almost 9000EC just by advertising other’s images.
I’m planning to give all of these Entrecard Credits and any other credits from now on away to 1 lucky advertiser.
On January 1st 2009, I’ll announce who the lucky winner is and Ill transfer all the EC to his or her account.

How I’m deciding this? Well very simple, the one that applies to advertise his Entrecard Image the most on my site till January 1st, will be the winner. I’ve started counting from the 1st of November till now and I’ve got 10 advertisers with 1 time advertising each. So you all still got a fair chance to win my last EC’s.

Start advertising on my blog and win every EC I’ve earned till the 1st of January 2009, Happy New Year!!!

To celebrate their 10th birthday, Google have setup a site with their oldest available index.

When I’ve opened the site, I immediately recognized the view from back then.
It’s funny how much things change if you look back at them.

I guess they didn’t had an sketch drawer back then like they now have to change the ‘Google’ letters everyday.

But back to the Google 2001 site, this is a great opportunity to find out what you can find about some of the moneybloggers I visit every now and then. Did their sites existed back then or where they not known at all?

John Chow: One of the Icons in the moneyblogging industry. A search on his name gave back about 514 results in 2001 against 320.000 right now.
If you look at his site back then, you can’t even imagine that this guy will earn a lot of money by just blogging. Good job John!

Problogger Darren Rowse: Google search resulted in 0 hits on “Darren Rowse” and even on problogger. Can be correct if you know he started blogging in 2002

Jeremy Shoemaker (Shoemoney): Search on Shoemoney: 4 hits in 2001, 350.000 hits in 2008. Search on his name, 2 hits in 2001, 26000 in 2008.

Jim Kukral: in 2001, 5 hits. now 78.700 hits. A view of his site anno 2001

Carl Ocab: No hits in 2001, about 11000 hits right now.

45n5: 53 hits in 2001, but none related according to me. 36400 hits by now.

Nate Whitehill: Only 1 hit back then against around 17000 hits now.

Zac Johnson: 500 hits in 2001, one of the most known in my list back then and 44000 right now. His page back then gave a red cross, but I think this is what’s behind the cross.

Try searching your own name, did you hit ratio increased this spectacular also?

After winning the bronze medal last year in Osaka, our 4x100M women’s relay team won their semi final today at the Olympic Games in Beijing which also qualified them immediately for the final tomorrow.

From the 8 finalist, they’ve run the 3rd best time, so is there a new bronze medal on the way?
If they can exchange the stick with no problems in the race, I think they can even go for silver. Gold will be very hard to win, because the Jamaican girls are very strong. But Russia and Great Britain can be beaten.
We only have to hope that they don’t fail like the United States did today in the relay, both the women and the men’s relay team failed to qualify for the final due to bad exchanges of the stick.

Another thing the Belgian athletes are facing this Olympics is a lack of good luck. It’s always the ‘just not’ story. Hopefully we can turn it around tomorrow.
Anyway I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a medal tomorrow, if not the relay team, then maybe our Olympic Soccer team, if they beat Brazil we’re winning bronze.

Update: Belgium finished 2nd after Russia. Favorite Jamaica failed on the 2nd stick exchange and were out of the race. Belgium also ran a new national record with 42.54 seconds. Congratulations on winning the Silver medal girls!!!

Today they’ve announced that Saunier Duval’s rider Ricardo Ricco tested positive on the use of EPO.
Ricco who’ve already won 2 stages this Tour de France was immediately suspended by his team. The team Saunier Duval itself is also leaving this year’s tour after this revelation.

From nature Ricco who’s 24 years old, is ‘blessed’ with a high hematocrit value and has the approval from the UCI for this. But from the start of this year’s tour he was already being watched closely by the French anti-doping agency.
The 2 victories he achieved where of an phenomenal value and thus rising questions.
After the time trial he tested positive for EPO of the 3rd generation (CERA).
Now we can only hope that all the others are riding clean, but my opinion is that at least 50% of the one’s that are left are also using in some kind of way.