Dreams do come true! Blogging has been a passion for more years than I can remember and tonight it all paid off when iMod won an SA Blog Award for Best South Africa Blog About Technology / Computers / Web Development.
I normally sit down to write a blog post and my fingers start going and they just don’t stop, but tonight, on this very special night, I really have so little to say. Firstly, I’m somewhat blown away by the award – I was nominated for three awards categories namely: Best SA Personal Blog, Best SA Entertainment Blog & Best SA Blog About Technology / Computers / Web Development, now most of you know that professionally I am a programmer and search engine specialist, but I honestly thought that I had a chance for Best SA Personal Blog and really didn’t think that I would win for the Technology / Computers / Web Development. The first prize up was for Best SA Personal Blog and Tertia took it for the second year running – I was standing there cursing under my breathe and then all of a sudden I hear iMod being called out, I honestly couldn’t believe it. A number of people laughed at me and sort of said.. “Duh, obviously that category”, which interested my, oh well, very happy with it! Well Done Tertia!!!
To everyones surprise, there were actually a couple prizes – Each category winner won a Bottle of wine from Warwick Wine Estate as well as a tree (yes, a tree) from Stodels Nursery. Then for a few select categories, there were bigger prizes – For the Technology / Computers / Web Dev category – I won a Dell 20″ Flat Panel Monitor, sponsored by Dell and the Best Overall SA Blog won an xbox 360 if I remember correctly, so I’m super stoked!
The awards were fantastic and I’m not going to go on about the function, but I’d like to thank everyone for a fantastic night as well as an even bigger thank you to everyone who voted for me – It’s all of you who made this dream come true and I’ll never be able to thank you enough! I realise I should probably be sending track backs to everyone I saw at the awards, but I’m honestly exhausted and do have work tomorrow.
This is possibly one of the happiest nights of my life :)
Bro….NICE!!! its all you.hehehe. Dude!!! that is F#@%ing A….10 points.WHOOOO
Congrats mate!
Just proves that all the work does eventually pay off.
Chris, WELL DONE, you DESERVE it!!!
@BlairH – Thanks mate, really appreciate it!
@HoTsTePPa – Thanks a million! Absolutely, it’s great to be rewarded for something, which has taken years. Also a big thanks to you for all the comments you leave on the blog, I feel that a lot of the movement on my blog is aided by yourself!
yeah… my invoice is in the mail! ;)
Just wallow in your glory dude! Change your header to splash your award around! Buy yourself a lil gold medallion, have it engraved and wear it EVERYDAY from here on out :D
Ahoy Chris
Well done bud!! Really really cool that all your hard work is paying off :) Hopefully next year, more awards will be going home with you! You put pictures up of the prizes, but I wanna see the monitor!? Post them up when it arrives!
Congrats again!
@HoTsTePPa – I don’t think I can afford you mate! ;) Hahaha, I do want a header redesign though, perhaps something a little more aimed at the award category as well as incorporating Table Mountain and something in my life, but I’m a developer and logical thinker, so I can’t design it myself :(
@James – Thanks a mil! I got a voucher from Dell for the monitor, I will have to call Dell and arrange to have it delivered :)
@Eric – Thanks a million for the comment and the congratulations emails mate! See you tomorrow at OpenCoffee :)
well done, you deserve it! was really nice meeting you in person
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well done babe! you deserve it! am lank happy for you x
Congratulations meneer, well deserved, and awesome prize !
Congrats Chris! :-)
See I told you you were going to win – no need to look so surprised.
Well done Chistopher Mum, Abigail, Andrew and I are very proud of you
Wooohoo! Congrats again Chris. It’s great to see talent get the reward it deserves.
Very happy for you. I am sure the you are over the moon with this after all these years of blogging.Pitty I only discovered you a month or so ago.
Keep up the good work and us entertained.
well done dude :P
congrats and enjoy the tree :P (nice lcd :P too)
bet you wont believe that I am on line but this is too big to miss well done darling lots of love mum
lol @ ^^^^
cute dude :P
Sarah u must pat yourself on the back.. ur son is not only an award winner but a great mate also!
Congrats again.. maybe less Celine Dion and Gummy Bear posts now? Keep it tech!
Well done… :)
Thank-you everyone for the wonderful comments, it’s lovely to be praised for something of this nature and hopefully I can return my thanks in the form of interesting posts.
@Charl – Thanks bud! There’s plenty of tech posts on this blog, but remember.. the traditional format of a blog is a personal online journal, things have changed, but I still stand hard on the fact that a blog is meant to be personal, with a flair of the writers interests and that’s exactly what iMod has done :)
Fair enough personal interests need to be expressed, but just as long as it excludes Celine Dion or any other large fore-headed Canadian has-beens! ;)
But the mix is good though, it least it allowed you to be nominated in 3 categories, which is a shit load better than being nominated in 1 category and winning that.
Haha, you would want Celine Dion gone wouldn’t you ;)
The blog is definitely not entirely technology based, but having a look through my stats for most popular posts in terms of reads or comments, some of the highest ranking posts are technology based, which proves that there are plenty of tech related articles.
HoTsTePPa – I agree, it’s nice to have a mix and it’s even nicer to be nominated for three categories and win one, than being nominated for only one and winning that – wider spread, more mention, more return, bigger audience, blah blah.
Thanks for the comment bud!
Well done buddy!! well have to celebrate by signing the new flat tonight, what you think? :)
Oh hell ya! Thanks bro, cya at 18h30 :)
Well done, you deserve it! Now, I’ll try complain less when you working til all hours ;)
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Thank-you, but it’s not the blogging that’s keeping me too busy, it’s all the work! :)
Congratulations on the award and the great prize! That’s awesome!
Thanks Bryan, appreciate the congratulations!
Well done dude, told you you’d ace it! :-)
Thanks Babe!!!
Plesh hun! Good luck with getting keys to new pad by the way.
We’ve been given the go ahead from the lady!!! It’s ours as of the first of June, sooooo excited :)
Congrats Chris! I was so rooting for you to take home an award. Pretty bummed that I couldn’t make the awards (Well I did arrive, but got seriously ill and had to leave).
Another monitor to add to the collection then! Hook it up already!
Thanks mate! Ah man, appreciate that! Ye man, sorry to hear about that, is everything ok???
Grief ya, kinda racking up all the monitors is getting scary on my side!
I hope you’re well bud.
Stoker!!
Well done mate.
BTW… Hope Bro’s all better.
:)
Thanks mate!
Yes, my brother has just returned from ICU and seems to be doing a lot better, it’s still going to be a while until a full recovery. I actually have a blog post in drafts which I will release the minute I can complete it!
Thank you Justin, I appreciate it!
Chris, I must say this was well deserved! Well done!
Thanks Roelof! Long time no speak, how are things going your side?
Hi Chris. No all is well and extremely busy. You know how it is :D, But I still pop around daily so I do not miss anything great you have to say.
Glad to hear that things are good your side, I definitely know what it’s like to be EXTREMELY busy! Glad to hear you pop around now and then, I do the same with your site – I have this list, some blogs I visit daily, some every couple days, some weekly, etc. It seems like the best way to get all the news and gossip ;)
all that hard work chris my boy!
well done champ :)
Thanks mate, appreciate it! See you soon :)
Congrats and hope you enjoy the wine. There is some info on the wine at http://www.warwickwine.com/framework/wines_threecapeladies.asp so that you know when to drink and what to drink it with.
Mike
I suppose better late than never ;) Once again – huge congrats and thanks for the plug ;)
Hi Mike – thanks so much! I’ve not had a chance to taste the wine yet, I’ve been finishing off some lovely Perdeberg Merlot and plan on having a glass of the Three Cape Ladies in the next 20 mins or so :)
Sure thing Joey! At least the public know that the staff at http://www.formfunction.co.za are cooking the industry!
Congrats Chris, you are receiving credit for your work with adds value to many online.
Congratulations (from a fellow blogger, and runner up).
I’ve browsed your blog and I am very impressed by the content and quality! – you definitely deserved the win.
Keep it up and congratulations again!
HTT
Thanks Handy Tech Tipper, was over at your blog the other day, but it seems like I can’t leave comments on your posts, as I tried to, but no such luck.
I really appreciate it HTT, thank-you!
Chris, from time to time I read your blogs. The last time I read you recommend Google Adsense as well as Synergyas profitable money making schemes. (Ek is eintlik Afrikaans, so ek hoop jy gaan my Engels verstaan) Any way, I am not impress with them. First of all, it is meant for people with blogs or websites with a big traffic, definitely not for beginners. Secondly, after I registered with Synergy the only thing that happened was that they have bombarded my inbox with emails.
Now, Google Adsense, THIS one is really bad. I am copying the standard problem people have with them and seems to me there is no way of contacting them directly if you have a problem. I joined them years ago and received this message when I try to claim moeny they owed me. And if you go to their forum you will see i’m not alone. So, no, i will never recommend either of these two to people.
Account Not Active
An AdSense account does not exist for this login, as it is associated with an unapproved application. For more information about your application, please review the message we sent to the email address you provided with your application. http://www.google.gg/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?fid=0ee29d63341af6550004ba9e26790a77&hl=en
Thank you for your comment Ina, must have been a long time ago that you read about Google Adsense and the likes as I haven’t blogged about anything like that for months if I recall correctly.
That being said, when it comes to making money online, the options are limited, especially when it comes to systems that get you started right away. Targeting advertisers is the best way to do it, but not everyone is able to do that so I share other options, at no point do I feel they are the best options, but they’re certainly the easiest, and I apologize if you misunderstood that.
I have used Adsense for 5 or 6 years and receive a cheque every single month without a problem, so I guess it works for some of us, and unfortunately, not all of us.
Thank you for your comment and support!
And thank you for your prompt response, Chris, I think you are really one of the few decent guys on the net. Believe me, I have lost so much money to some “nice” blokes who convinced me to buy into their schemes that it will take me a life time to pay off my credit cards. And I can say in all honesty I haven’t made one cent EVER. Not your fault though and I didn’t mean to be ‘bitterbek’ with you! As I’ve said… I think the world of you. Your responses to other bloggers are always so well mannered and good natured, I really think you’re one of a kind. Just a pity I’m an old woman, just kidding!
Thank you again
Ina
Ina
My pleasure; sorry to hear you’ve had such a tough time, the Internet is a difficult place to make money, and with all the schemes that promise the world, the good ones unfortunately end up getting taken down with the rest.