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Readers - we have a winner!

25th January 2006

Thank you to the 197 of you (see, I’m keeping it updated) who introduced yourselves, de-lurked, and left your flags the other day. image
It was genuinely brilliant to find out more about y’all - what you do, what you care about, where you live/work/play. I loved visiting all of your sites, and appreciated your comments about this humble little website.
So, lets find out the final figures. How many from the US, how many from Slovenia? Which country spawned the most comments? Who won the book? 

The tally as it stands

I’ll update this tally based on any further unique comments here or on the other post. maybe you can bump your nation to the top by gently nudging your friends. Know anyone in Antarctica? What happened to all you Icelanders?

  1. United Kingdom (53)
  2. United States (43)
  3. Canada (17)
  4. China (11)
  5. Australia (8)
  6. Sweden (7)
  7. Germany (6)
  8. Netherlands (6)
  9. Belgium (4)
  10. Italy (4)
  11. New Zealand (3)
  12. Croatia (2)
  13. Czech Republic (2)
  14. Fiji (2)
  15. Finland (2)
  16. Portugal (2)
  17. Singapore (2)
  18. Angola (1)
  19. Argentina (1)
  20. France (1)
  21. Guyana (1)
  22. Iran (1)
  23. Ireland (1)
  24. Israel (1)
  25. Japan (1)
  26. Mexico (1)
  27. Norway (1)
  28. Poland (1)
  29. Romania (1)
  30. Slovakia (1)
  31. Slovenia (1)
  32. South Africa (1)
  33. Spain (1)
  34. Thailand (1)

Good work, readers!

So, who won the book?

Using a random number generator, a winning comment has been selected. Receiving a copy of CSS Mastery in late Feb/early March will be the very lucky Steven Ametjan from Los Angeles - that sprawling, dirty, sleazy little town in America. Huge congratulations for your good furtune. Now email me your postal address without delay!

Simon Collison published this on 25/01/06, at 10:53 PM

Comments

Congrats on the Book, I will definatly be buying myself a copy when it comes out.

Looks like you have quite the international readership at the moment.

25/01 at 23:40 from Nik

Nik: Cheers. After reading your thoughts about books versus online tutorials, I hope it lives up to your expectations! No doubt the bulk of it (Andy’s chapters) will do.

25/01 at 23:50 from Simon Collison

Wow, and to think that this is the first time I’ve ever won something like this hahaha. I’ll email you with my address right now.

26/01 at 00:10 from Steven Ametjan

Ah, thus proving my theory that my winning a free Mars bar in Bendigo Australia 5 years ago would be the only time I’d ever win anything. Awesome. Congrats, Steven.

Now I want a Mars bar…

26/01 at 00:21 from gb

Can’t you post some pictures from the book Simon on Flickr?

26/01 at 00:56 from Gustaf Lindqvist

Gustaf: I can do better than that - well, Andy has: CSS Mastery.

26/01 at 00:59 from Simon Collison

It’s fun to de-lurk every once in a while wink

26/01 at 01:09 from Jesse

Your random number generator doesn’t like me is that it!?

26/01 at 17:49 from Chris Wible

Now you just need to add flags for states, provinces, and prefectures wink [Seriously, North America looks so pathetic with only three flags when compared to Europe =( ]

27/01 at 07:12 from Chris Fritz

Ah, the hopes of 196 people were just dashed! I’m looking forward to (buying) the book still.

27/01 at 17:38 from Tony

Oh well maybe I will have better luck with the Euro Lottery tonight.

Congrats Steven

27/01 at 20:24 from Michael G

heh nice to see where’s 12th smile

31/01 at 22:24 from Marko Mihelcic

C’mon, where the hell did you put the Czech flag? smile I’m all for this - you know, being between Italy and Israel may be nice, especially in Winter. Unfortunately, it’s not the case, the weather widget shows -11?C here :D

03/02 at 01:12 from Jan Brasna

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