First things first
CFHour is asking people to donate money for the relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy.
To encourage people to donate, they are running a competition to win a copy of ColdFusion Builder. Details are on their site, but I've repeated them below to get the message across as quickly as possible (guys, please let me know if I don't have this exactly right, I'll update it).
Donate some money to a charity that is targeting the relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy. Take a photo of the receipt and post it somewhere on the 'net that can be viewed (obscure any sensitive personal info!), then tweet the URL along with a hash-tag of #CFHourCares.
G'day:
I've just got home from work, having listened to the latest CFHour podcast whilst on the train / walking. As always, it was a good listen and I recommend it. Even if I got slightly pilloried this week (not on the whole unjustly... But I shall be following that up... ;-).
However the guys pointed out something that rather pisses me off.
They observed that that dumb article I wrote about trailing slashes garnered 20-odd comments (34 as I type), and is rapidly becoming my most-browsed-to article, whereas they've only had on person enter their competition to help people who have been victims of Hurricane Sandy.
That's a bit rubbish.
I know I solicited the attention by writing a divisive article, but come on... It's sh!t that trailing slashes get more attention than hurricane victims. Yeah, it's a banal analysis, but it's poignant if nothing else.
So here's a request: if you were a commenter on that article, please go donate some money and enter the CFHour competition.
I'd already donated separately, but I'm gonna donate again (if I can trick the US Red Cross website into taking a donation from the UK, which I could not do before).
Here are the competition details again:
Donate some money to a charity that is targeting the relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy. Take a photo of the receipt and post it somewhere on the 'net that can be viewed (obscure any sensitive personal info!), then tweet the URL along with a hash-tag of #CFHourCares.
Even if you didn't comment on the article: go donate some money and enter the competition.
Go.
Do it.
Now.
Thanks.
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Adam